Marshall Ball

Professor Marshall Ball is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. His research is in theoretical computer science, with a primary focus on the foundations of cryptography and computational complexity. His work explores fundamental questions about secure computation, randomness extraction, non-malleability, and the limits of efficient computation under cryptographic constraints. Professor Ball received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, where he was advised by Tal Malkin. During his doctoral studies, he spent two and a half years as a visiting researcher at the FACT Center at IDC Herzliya, Israel. After completing his Ph.D., he was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington, supported by an NSF/CRA Computing Innovation Fellowship, working under the guidance of Huijia Lin and Stefano Tessaro. He has published extensively in top-tier theory venues such as FOCS, CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, TCC, ITCS, CCC, and ITC, and is actively seeking creative and motivated students interested in theoretical cryptography and complexity theory.