Huijia (Rachel) Lin is an associate professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, where she co-leads the Cryptography Lab. Before joining the University of Washington, she was an assistant professor in the department of computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

She obtained her PhD in computer science from Cornell University, and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and at Boston University, in the department of computer science. Her research interests are in cryptography, and broadly, its interplay with theory of computer science and security.