Marina Blanton

Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
University at Buffalo

Email: mblanton at buffalo.edu
Office: 333 Davis Hall
Mailing Address: Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University at Buffalo
338 Davis Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260

Education: PhD from Purdue University (2007); MS from Purdue University (2004); MS from Ohio University (2002)

My research interests are centrally in information security, privacy, and applied cryptography. Recent projects span across areas such as secure computation and outsourcing, data-oblivious algorihtms, integrity of outsourced computation and storage, private biometric and genomic computation, authentication, and anonymity.

Research

Publications: by year by type
Vita (PDF)

The PICCO compiler is available from GitHub.

My research projects were featured in International Innovation: Securing Data during Computation.

Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook

Current Program Committees and Conference Organization:

PETS 2026 Program Committee Member
Dagstuhl Seminar 25312 Organizer
IEEE Security and Privacy 2025 General Chair
IEEE Security and Privacy 2025 Program Committee Member

Teaching

CSE 715 Fall 2025