Alessandro Baccarini
abaccarini[at]proton[dot]me
I am actively seeking academic, industry, and government research & engineering opportunities in the Northeastern US/remote. Please email me if you’d like to chat!
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I am a security researcher with interests spanning across areas of information security, applied cryptography, and privacy enhancing technologies.
Examples of my work include designing and implementing protocols for secure multi-party computation (MPC), and quantifying information disclosure from secure computation through information-theoretic approaches. I also co-maintain PICCO, an open-source MPC compiler and library.
I earned my PhD in computer science from the University at Buffalo, where I was advised by Marina Blanton.
My Erdős number is 3 through the following connections: Paul Erdős → Frank Hsu → Gary Weiss → Alessandro Baccarini.
news
| Apr 16, 2025 | I was invited to present my research on quantifying information disclosure from secure computation outputs virtually at The RAND Corporation. Slides available here. |
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| Mar 11, 2025 | I had the pleasure of presenting my research on quantifying information disclosure from secure computation outputs virtually at Intel Labs. Slides available here. |
| Feb 05, 2025 | I was invited to present my research at Riverside Research in Lexington, MA. Slides available here. |
| Jan 27, 2025 | I was invited to present my research on privacy-preserving machine learning virtually at The MITRE Corporation. Slides available here. |
| Dec 14, 2024 | The full version of our CODASPY ‘24 paper “Understanding Information Disclosure from Secure Computation Output: A Comprehensive Study of Average Salary Computation” was published in ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS). Available here. |
| Sep 17, 2024 | My PhD dissertation “New Directions in Secure Multi-Party Computation: Techniques and Information Disclosure Analysis” is officially published! Available here. |
| Jul 31, 2024 | I successfully defended my dissertation!  Presentation slides available here. |
| Jun 20, 2024 | I presented our paper “Understanding Information Disclosure from Secure Computation Output: A Study of Average Salary Computation” at the ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), held at the University of Porto in Portugal. Paper available here and my presentation slides here. |