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Punchscan Team
Richard Carback
Richard Carback is a graduate student in
Computer Science working in Information
Assurance at the University of Maryland, Baltimore
County. He completed his BS in Computer Science at
UMBC in May of 2005. While an undergraduate he
managed the computer systems for the student
newspaper and spent school breaks working for
L-3 Communications Corporation's Government
Services Incorporated, formerly known as EER Systems, Integrated Base
Defense Security Systems Contractor Logistics Support group. Rick is also
developing Cyber Defense Exercises and maintaining the Cyber Defense Lab at UMBC.
Richard maintains the website for punchscan, and has been actively working on the web-based components of the punchscan system. He has also been working on images that allow the punchscan software to boot and run off of a USB stick or CD.
David Chaum
David Chaum, widely recognized as the inventor of electronic cash and
other cryptographic techniques aimed at providing privacy, founded IACR,
the major organization in the field of cryptographic research.
While a graduate student at UC Berkeley in 1981, he
published the first solution to providing secure secret-ballot elections
electronically.
He had created the SureVote system to provide secure elections in developing countries just before November 2000, and then adapted it for US elections. Later he published the Votegrity system for visual voting before developing PunchScan. He is a member of the ACCURATE and On the Identity Trail projects. He has also been active in and co-founded the WOTE series of workshops on technology for secure elections, founded VSPR to help develop performance measures for voting systems, and created VoComp as a way for universities to compete on their realizations of voting systems.
Jeremy Clark
Jeremy Clark is a PhD student at the University of Waterloo's Center for Applied Cryptographic Research. Aside from his research on Punchscan and voting, Jeremy has done work in mix networks, usablity, economics of information security, and cryptography.
Aleks Essex
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Aleks Essex is a doctoral candidate at University of Ottawa's School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) with a background in information security and its applications to electronic voting. |
Stefan Popoveniuc
Stefan POPOVENIUC graduated from Politehnica University of Bucharest,
Romania, as an engineer in Computer Science in 2004. In the same year he
started a doctoral program at George Washington University. He worked on
a couple of voting systems, particularly, he made a full implementations
and performance evaluation of the Citizen Verified Voting (a voting
system invented by David Chaum, that uses visual crypto). His academic
interests include cryptography, anonymity, privacy, e-cash and networks.
Bridge and fencing are among the non-academic interests. For PunchScan,
Stefan wrote the main engine, the voting booth software and collaborated
with Ben Hosp for a couple of articles.
Stefan has written the software to scan ballots and to the core punchscan cryptographic protocols.
Past Contributors
Ben Hosp
Ben Hosp has a B.S. in Computer Science from Roanoke College in Salem,
VA, and is currently working on a PhD in Computer Science from the
George Washington University. He was involved in the Citizen-Verified
Voting project at GWU in early 2004, which produced an implementation
of David Chaum's earlier visual-cryptography-based voting system. He
has been working on various aspects of cryptographic electronic voting
ever since.
Ben wrote an introduction to punchscan with Stefan and has been working on voting models.
Kevin Fisher
Kevin Fisher is a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and
Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He
received his B.S. in Computer Engineering and B.S. in Mathematics
from UMBC in 2005. He served for two years as chair of the
University's student branch of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). His current
research interests include human-aware computing and high integrity
election systems.
Kevin has written a paper regarding the necessary physical components of punchscan and earlier worked on software that would create pdfs of the current punchscan ballots.
Jeremy Robin
Jeremy Robin is a Software Engineer at Cloudmark, a San Francisco based start-up
which specializes in anti-spam software. He received his B.S in Computer
Science from Dartmouth College in 2001 and his M.S. in Computer Science from
Stanford University in June 2006. He developed glucose meters for 2 years at
Abbott Laboratories, MediSense products before deciding to move out to
California and return to school. His current research is focused on system
design, network security, and cryptography though a strong interest in music
also led him to develop Fastab, an automatic musical notation solution for
mandolin and guitar players.
Jeremy has written a number of online demos for punchscan.