Joshua Baron
RAND Corporation
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jbaron@rand.org
Education
University of California at Los Angeles
Ph.D. Mathematics
M.A. Mathematics
University of California at Berkeley
B.A. Mathematics, GPA 3.90/4.00
High Distinction (Magna Cum Laude), Highest Honors in Major
September 2013
June 2007
August 2002 – May 2006
Experience
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
March 2014-Present
Associate Information Scientist
National security policy research for Air Force, Army, and DoD sponsors. Research focus in
cyberspace technology policy.
HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA
June 2008-March 2014
Research Staff Member
Oct 2012-March 2014
Student Researcher
June 2008-Sept 2012
UCLA Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics
Academic Mentors, RIPS Program
June 2012 – Aug 2012
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA
June 2007 – Aug 2007
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Boston, MA
June 2005 – Aug 2006
Selected RAND Publications
• Joshua Baron, Angela O’Mahony, David Manheim, Cynthia Dion-Schwarz. “National
Security Implications of Virtual Currency: Examining the Potential for Non-state Actor
Exploitation” RAND RR-1231-OSD, 2015.
• Caolionn O’Connell, Lara Schmidt, Hiro Miyake, Akhil Shah, Joshua Baron, Geof Nieboer,
Rose Jourdan, Dave Senty, Zev Winklemen, Louise Taggart, Suzanne Sondergarrd, Neil
Robinson. “Cyber Practices: What Can USAF Learn from the Commercial Sector?” RR847-AF, 2014.
Joshua Baron
External Publications and Patents
• Joshua Baron, Rafail Ostrovsky, Ivan Visconti. “Nearly Simultaneously Resettable Black-Box
Zero Knowledge,” ICALP 2012 (Track A).
• Joshua Baron, Karim El Defrawy, Kirill Minkovitch, Rafail Ostrovsky, Eric Tressler. “5pm:
5ecure Pattern Matching,” SCN 2012; invited and accepted to the Journal of Computer Security.
• Joshua Baron, Yuval Ishai, Rafail Ostrovsky. “On Linear-Size Pseudorandom Generators and
Hardcore Functions,” COCOON 2013; invited and accepted to the Theoretical Computer Science
journal.
• Joshua Baron, Karim El Defrawy, Aleksey Nogin, Rafail Ostrovsky. “An Architecture for a Resilient
Cloud Computing Infrastructure,” IEEE Technologies for Homeland Security 2013.
• Joshua Baron, Karim El Defrawy, Joshua Lampkins, Rafail Ostrovsky. “How to Withstand
Mobile Virus Attacks, Revisited,” PODC 2014.
• Joshua Baron, Karim El Defrawy, Joshua Lampkins, Rafail Ostrovsky. “CommunicationOptimal Mobile Proactive Secret Sharing,” ACNS 2015.
• T. Nathan Mundhenk, Joshua Baron, Roy Matic. “Efficient Reduction of Complex Noise in
Passive Millimeter-Wave-Wavelenth Video Utilizing Bayesian Surprise,” Journal of Optical
Engineering, Vol 51, No 9, 2011.
• Joshua Baron. “Efficient Secure Computation and Randomness,” PhD Thesis, UCLA 2012.
Patents and Intellectual Property
• Aleksey Nogin, Joshua Baron, Karim El Defrawy, “System for Ensuring that Promises are
Kept in an Anonymous System.” Patent number 9,026,786. Issued May 5, 2015.
• Karim El Defrawy, Kirill Minkovich, Joshua Baron, Eric Tressler, Heiko Hoffman, “Secure
Pattern Matching.” Patent number 9,009,089. Issued April 14, 2015.
• 13+ Invention Disclosures, HRL Laboratories, LLC.
Teaching
• Cyber 101: Fundamental of Security and Risk in Cyberspace. Pardee RAND Graduate School.
Co-taught with Lillian Ablon. Spring 2015 Quarter.
Selected Presentations
• “National Security Implications of Virtual Currency”
o FFRDC CISO Meeting, February 2016
o RAND CGRS Advisory Board Meeting, October 2015
• “Recent Trends in Academic Cryptography- Implications for the Intelligence Community”,
RAND Intelligence Policy Center Seminar, November 2014.
• “Recent Trends in Cryptography”, RAND Project AIR FORCE FMEP Seminar, September
2014.
• “An Architecture for a Resilient Cloud Computing Infrastructure,” IEEE HST, Waltham,
MA, November 2013.
• “On Linear-Size Pseudorandom Generators and Hardcore Functions,” COCOON, Hangzhou,
China, June 2013.
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• “5PM: Secure Pattern Matching,” SCN, Amalfi, Italy, September 2012.
• “Nearly Simultaneously Resettable Black-Box Zero Knowledge,” ICALP Track A, Warwick,
UK, July 2012.
Honors and Affiliations
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Member, International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)
Member, European Assoc. for Theoretical Comp. Science (EATCS)
National Science Foundation RTG fellowship
National Science Foundation VIGRE fellowship
Phi Beta Kappa
Berkeley Alumni Leadership Scholarship (thrice awarded)
2013-Present
2012-2014
2009 - 2010
2006 - 2009
2006
2002, 2003, 2004