Jessica Nicola Staddon is an American computer scientist with broad research interests that include cryptography, human–computer interaction, information visualization, coding theory, and information privacy.
She is a research scientist at Google,[1] and an adjunct professor of computer science at North Carolina State University.
[2] Staddon earned her Ph.D. in mathematics in 1997 at the University of California, Berkeley.
Her dissertation, A Combinational Study of Communication, Storage and Traceability in Broadcast Encryption Systems, was supervised by Leo Harrington.
[3] Her interests in computer science broadened through successive moves to RSA Security (1997–1999), Bell Labs (1999–2001), PARC (2001–2010), and Google, where she began working in 2010.