CarbyneStackCon '24¶

Dr. Marcel Keller is a senior research scientist with CSIRO's Data61, a research unit of Australia's national science agency. After completing his PhD with Ivan Damgård at Aarhus University, he spent a few years at the University of Bristol under the supervision of Nigel Smart. There, he started working on an implementation of multi-party computation that eventually would form the basis of MP-SPDZ, an open-source project used by researchers all over the world.

Sarthak is a member of the Research Unit at the Center for Data for Public Good (CDPG), Foundation for Science Innovation and Development (FSID), Indian Institute of Science. His contributions at CDPG include extending the anonymization pipeline to support categorical data and enhancing Motion2NX's functionality to implement CNN inferencing. Sarthak is deeply passionate about privacy and Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) and enjoys exploring sci-fi and high fantasy in his leisure time.

Dr. Ajith Suresh is a Senior MPC Researcher at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, affiliated with the Cryptography Research Center. Prior to joining TII, he completed 1.5 years of post-doctoral research at the Cryptography and Privacy Engineering (ENCRYPTO) group at the Technical University of Darmstadt, under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Schneider. He holds a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. His research focuses on the design and development of applied Multi-Party Computation (MPC) protocols, with additional interests in privacy-preserving machine learning and federated learning.

Kert joined the Sharemind MPC product development team at Cybernetica in 2021 as a programmer. Fascinated by the engineering challenges of MPC deployments, he began exploring ways to enhance the practicality of production-grade MPC. In 2022, Kert defended his Master's thesis on scaling parallel algorithms on MPC. Shortly after, he set his sights on Carbyne Stack. Realizing its immense potential for standardizing the way MPC is deployed, he spearheaded the initiative to integrate Sharemind MPC with the Carbyne Stack platform. As the team grew around this shared ambition, he assumed the role of an architect.

Dr. Jonas Böhler is the lead AI security & privacy researcher for the SAP Foundation Model, SAP's table-native AI solution for prediction tasks on tabular data. Previously, he was a senior researcher at SAP Security Research and also serves as SAP's project lead for the EU project Glaciation, focusing on privacy-preserving collaborative learning. Jonas received his PhD from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where his thesis received awards from the ERCIM Security and Trust Management Working Group and the KIT faculty of computer science. His research interests focus on privacy-enhancing technologies with applications in cross-company collaborations.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren is Head of the Institute for Information, Telecommunications and Media Law (ITM) at the University of Münster and current lecturer at the University of Vienna, he is a experienced legal scholar and former judge at the Court of Appeal of Düsseldorf (Copyright Senate). Throughout his career, he has held various prestigious positions and has made significant contributions to the fields of information technology law and intellectual property rights.

Merlin Rombach is a Academic Associate at the Institute for Information, Telecommunications and Media Law (ITM) at the University of Münster. His research interests span cybersecurity law, data protection law, and AI regulation, with his doctoral research specifically exploring how cryptographic methods can enhance personal data protection and potentially even achieve anonymization. Through his work, he examines the legal framework for privacy-enhancing technologies in the digital age.

Adrián Vaca Humanes is the Engineering Lead at Resolve, focusing on Data Analytics and Cloud Architecture. His experience spans various industries, including banking, consumer discretionary, and telecommunications. At Resolve, he is dedicated to building privacy-preserving solutions for the AdTech industry, with a current focus on data engineering, platform optimization, and cost reduction for products based on Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC).

Daniele Romanini is a Senior Privacy Engineer at Resolve, bringing expertise in both data science and software engineering. His background includes experience in academia, government organizations, and the AdTech industry. Daniele is an advocate for privacy-by-design and a privacy tech enthusiast, actively integrating privacy threat modeling and a privacy-first approach into the software development lifecycle. He is currently focused on contributing to the development of a decentralized measurement and analytics platform built with privacy-enhancing technologies at its core.

Dr. Ian Zhou received his B.S. degree in computer science from The University of Sydney in 2016 and completed his M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Technology Sydney in 2019 and 2023, respectively. His Ph.D. research focused on machine learning-based frost monitoring systems. Currently, Dr. Zhou is a Research Engineer specializing in privacy-preserving technologies, working on accelerating multi-party secure machine learning algorithms with CUDA and other GPU platforms. His research interests include AI, IoT, cyber-physical systems, and blockchain.

Vincent Rieder is a PhD student at Bosch Research in Renningen, focusing on Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC). Holding a Master’s degree in mathematics, his research centers on the algorithmic aspects of MPC. He aims to introduce new protocols into the Carbyne Stack MPC cloud platform, specifically by optimizing and implementing an enhanced MPC offline phase for generating Beaver triples using a Pseudorandom Correlation Generator (PCG) with low communication overhead, named Silentium.

Sebastian Becker is a Research Engineer at Robert Bosch GmbH. His work focuses on making privacy-enhancing technologies easily adaptable to the needs of the wide range of application domains at Bosch. In this context, Sebastian also works as one of the maintainers of and main contributors to Carbyne Stack.

Dr. Benjamin Hettwer is a research engineer at Robert Bosch Corporate Research in Renningen, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, in 2020. His research interests focus on the intersection of hardware security and machine learning. Recently, he also started working on privacy-enhancing technologies such as the secure multi-party computation solution Carbyne Stack and its application to industrial use cases.

Dr. Sven Trieflinger is a Senior Project Manager, Group Manager for Security, Privacy, and Safety, Research Engineer, and open source software maintainer at Bosch Research. He has over 15 years of experience in the design, architecture, and implementation of distributed systems and cloud platforms. With his team at Bosch, Sven drives innovation in the area of privacy-preserving computing technologies and is spearheading open source computing on encrypted data technology with the Carbyne Stack cloud-native Secure Multiparty Computation platform.

Dr. John Liagouris is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Boston University, where he co-leads the Complex Analytics and Scalable Processing research lab (CASP). He is a member of the Systems Group and is also affiliated with the Security Group at BU. John's research focuses on distributed systems, cloud computing, security & privacy, and data management. Prior to joining BU, he was a visiting scholar at the RISELab, UC Berkeley, a senior researcher at the Systems Group, ETH Zurich, a visiting research fellow at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), and a research assistant at the “Athena” Research Center in Greece. John earned his PhD from NTUA, Greece. His work has received several awards, including an “Outstanding New Research Direction Award” at Usenix HotStorage 2020, a NSF SaTC Core Medium Award, a Bosch Research Award, and a Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Award.

Dr. Brian LaMacchia is an applied cryptographer and currently the Executive Director of the MPC Alliance, a consortium of over 50 organizations promoting secure multi-party computation (MPC) technology. After a 25-year career at Microsoft Corporation, where he served as Distinguished Engineer for Cryptography and led the Security and Cryptography team at Microsoft Research, Brian retired in December 2022. He also co-founded and chaired the Microsoft Cryptography Review Board. Beyond his role at the MPC Alliance, Brian is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Indiana University-Bloomington’s School of Informatics and Computing, an Affiliate Faculty member at the University of Washington’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and an Advisor to Quantropi, Inc. Brian currently serves as Treasurer for the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and as Vice President on the Board of Directors of Seattle Opera. He earned his S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1990, 1991, and 1996, respectively.

Dr. Sven Trieflinger is a Senior Project Manager, Group Manager for Security, Privacy, and Safety, Research Engineer, and open source software maintainer at Bosch Research. He has over 15 years of experience in the design, architecture, and implementation of distributed systems and cloud platforms. With his team at Bosch, Sven drives innovation in the area of privacy-preserving computing technologies and is spearheading open source computing on encrypted data technology with the Carbyne Stack cloud-native Secure Multiparty Computation platform.

Dr. Christian Höppler is Open Source Officer at Bosch Research and member of Bosch's corporate Open Source Expert Team. Since joining Bosch Research a decade ago Chris has been working on a wide range of open source topics from compliance to strategy. Currently, he focuses on working with internal teams to help with their open source contributions both within Bosch Research and beyond. To support that work and to reduce some of the friction encountered he has begun to automate the contribution lifecycle. Additionally, Chris has been a member of the research project "Economy of Things", which is working towards well-governed decentralized systems for a digital economy. Prior to that he's been working in the automotive sector, mainly developing test automation software for hardware-in-the-loop testbenches.