| Alan Sherman | |
| Birth Date: | 26 February 1957 |
| Birth Place: | Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality: | American |
| Thesis Title: | Cryptology and VLSI: A Two-Part Dissertation[1] |
| Thesis Year: | 1986 |
| Fields: | Computer security Information assurance Cryptology Algorithms |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Ron Rivest |
| Alma Mater: | Brown University (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, PhD) |
Alan Theodore Sherman (born February 26, 1957) is an American computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), and director of the UMBC Center for Information Security and Assurance (CISA), and director of the UMBC Chess Program. Sherman is an editor for Cryptologia, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.
After graduating as salutatorian from Lafayette High School in 1974, Sherman earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Brown University in 1978, a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1981, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from MIT in 1987. Sherman's research interests include security of voting systems, cryptology, information assurance, and discrete algorithms.
Sherman has been the faculty advisor of the UMBC Chess Club since 1991, after playing in a student vs. faculty match https://web.archive.org/web/20110725092305/http://www.borderschess.org/UMBC.htm. He recruits chess players worldwide with academic scholarships https://main.uschess.org/content/view/8327/446/. UMBC has been ranked among the best college teams, winning the Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2009, and 2012. In 1997 he received a Meritorious Service Award from the USCF for his contributions to college chess https://web.archive.org/web/20110725092305/http://www.borderschess.org/UMBC.htm.