Kirill Nikitin PhD

Associate Research Scientist
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Kirill Nikitin is an associate research scientist at Columbia University’s Medical Center working with Prof. Noémie Elhadad and Prof. Gamze Gürsoy on biomedical privacy. Previously, he completed his PhD in Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL, where he was advised by Prof. Bryan Ford, and worked as a postdoc with Prof. Vitaly Shmatikov at Cornell Tech. His research interests revolve around topics in Privacy, Anonymity, Computer Security, and Genomics. His past projects include work on reducing metadata leakage in network communication and encrypted data, building robust systems for private information retrieval, improving the security of software-update systems, and scaling and securing smart contracts.