A very entertaining video where Shor shares the story of his factoring and dlog algorithms! youtu.be/6qD9XElTpCE

Submit your work-in-progress to get (potentially in-person!) community feedback. Looking forward to read your bold or even controversial privacy ideas!

Open Postdoc positions at ISTAustria. Happy to support a candidate that wants to join the SPIDERS Lab! ist.ac.at/en/education/p…

The results of parliamentary elections in Moscow w/o (left) and with (right) "electronic voting". The proof that this a fraud, not biased sample, is in that the electronic voting results were released 12 hours later - after all districts reported their numbers.

I am also looking for a post-doc to build privacy-preserving systems for NGOs. If you want more info take a look here: recruiting.epfl.ch/Vacancies/1880… or drop me a line via DM or email!

I am looking for PhD students! Apply through the Imperial Computing portal and reach out to me if you are interested in building systems that can provide latency, fault-tolerance, and confidentiality guarantees. imperial.ac.uk/computing/pros…

My FAQ on getting a computer science PhD in the USA. Answers to over 35 questions. parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/us-cs… Happy to hear feedback from faculty who disagree with some of these answers.

If you don't recognise these tactics, then you haven't been paying attention. From Kharkiv's frontline, #Ukraine dc and Feras. With thanks to our local team. BBC News (UK) BBC News (World) Graphic content warning.

IST Bridge for junior Postdocs is on again! ist.ac.at/en/education/p… Come work with me at IST whether you want to stay in academia, start your own thing, or work with top blockchain companies! Dm for info!

Applying for a CS-related PhD soon, or know someone who is? The PhDs of EPFL's Computer & Communication Sciences department wrote a guide to help! We also have volunteers to review SoPs and resumes for people who lack mentorship, so check it out! epic-guide.github.io/applying

I am attending #usesec23 in Anaheim this week. Come talk to me about PIR, metadata protection and genomic privacy, or just to say hi!

I am looking for PhD students to work together on privacy and security problems in “AI Systems”. We will focus on language models, agents, ML services, and study where they fail and how to make them work better. Apply by December 15. #phdlife #manningcics

Excited to see Apple using our padding heuristics Padmé in iMessage! security.apple.com/blog/imessage-…

🧙 I am recruiting PhD students and postdocs to work together on making sure AI Systems and Agents are built safe and respect privacy (+ other social values). Apply to UMass Amherst Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences and enjoy a beautiful town in Western Massachusetts. Reach out if you have questions!

We're excited to have Kirill Nikitin (NY Genome Center & Columbia University) give a talk at our seminar, do join us! 🪧Title: Private Information Leakage from Polygenic Risk Scores 📅When: 11am, Feb. 21 📷Livestream: sites.google.com/view/yacl/semi…

I am looking for a postdoc to work on multi-agent safety problems, if you are interested or know anyone let me know: forms.gle/NFuYLKj53fVwdW…

Happy that Gamze Gürsoy and I's poster on the privacy of polygenic risk scores has got an award at IEEE S&P! Reach out or come talk to me if you are interested in the privacy of genomic and medical data #ieeesp25

I am sharing my approved US green-card petition and LaTeX templates for the EB-1A category ("alien of extraordinary ability"). It might be helpful to anyone who applies without lawyers, like I did, and need what to see a successful petition can look like. nikirill.com/post/greencard/