Alessandro Baccarini

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I am a security researcher with interests spanning across areas of information security, applied cryptography, and privacy enhancing technologies.

My interests span across areas of information security, applied cryptography, and privacy-enhancing technologies. I design and implement protocols for secure multi-party computation (MPC) based on secret sharing for a variety of practical applications, such as privacy-preserving machine learning, sustainability, and outsourcing. Additionally, I research how to quantify information disclosure from arbitrary secure function evaluations through information-theoretic approaches. I also co-maintain PICCO, an open-source MPC compiler for translating general-purpose programs into their secure equivalents for distributed deployment.

I earned my PhD in computer science from the University at Buffalo, where I was advised by Marina Blanton. I previously obtained my masters in Cybersecurity and bachelors in Physics from Fordham University.

My Erdős number is 3 through the following connections: Paul Erdős → Frank Hsu → Gary Weiss → Alessandro Baccarini.