Madars Virza, a research scientist in the Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative (DCI), is a recipient of the Test of Time Award at the 45th Annual IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. This award is for a paper he co-authored in 2014, titled “Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin."

Dr. Virza shared his award with co-authors Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, and Eran Tromer.

The Test of Time Award recognizes papers previously published in the IEEE Security and Privacy Symposia that have had a “broad and lasting impact on both research and practice in computer security and privacy.” This year, papers published from 2012 through 2014 were eligible for selection. Madars shared his award with co-authors Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, and Eran Tromer.

Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field.