Team

Researchers

Princeton University

Marcela Melara was the lead researcher on CONIKS while at Princeton, and continues to volunteer as lead maintainer of CONIKS in her free time. She wrote her Master's thesis on an early version of CONIKS.

Michael Freedman is the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Co-Founder/CTO of Timescale. He is Marcela's PhD advisor and co-author of CONIKS.

Edward Felten is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Public Affairs, and Co-Founder/Chief Scientist at Offchai Labs. He is Marcela's Master's advisor and co-author of CONIKS.

Aaron Blankstein was a PhD student in Computer Science and co-author of CONIKS.

Stanford University/Electronic Frontier Foundation

Joseph Bonneau was a co-author of CONIKS while a post-doc at Stanford University and a Technology Fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Collaborators

Arlo Breault worked on coniks-go and on integrating CONIKS into Tor Messenger from 2016-2017.

Vu Quoc Huy worked on coniks-go and on integrating CONIKS into Tor Messenger from 2016-2018. Huy began his collaboration as part of Google Summer of Code 2016.

Ismail Khoffi worked on coniks-go between 2016-2017.

Past Researchers

Michael Rochlin contributed to CONIKS during the 2014/2015 academic year as an undergraduate at Princeton.