I am a cryptography researcher specializing in Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE — a technology enabling computation directly on encrypted data). More broadly, my research interests span Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) such as Multi-Party Computation (MPC), with applications to secure Cloud Computing. I currently work as a researcher at DESILO Inc. I am also an active contributor to the ISO SC27/WG2 working group on FHE standardization.
I hold a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Cagliari, Italy (2012) and an M.S. in Cryptology from the University Joseph Fourier of Grenoble, France (2014). From 2015 to 2018, I was a PhD student in the Crypto team at the Laboratory of Mathematics of Versailles (Université Paris-Saclay), under the supervision of Louis Goubin and Nicolas Gama, defending a thesis on the efficiency and security of FHE systems (Towards Efficient and Secure Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Cloud Computing), in May 2018.
Before joining DESILO, I held a series of research and industry positions:
- Research and teaching fellowship (ATER) at the University of Versailles (UVSQ, France), 2017–2018.
- Research Intern in the Cryptography Research group at Microsoft Research (Redmond, WA, USA), Summer 2018.
- Post-Doc in the COSIC research group at KU Leuven (Belgium), November 2018 – April 2020.
- Visiting Scientist for the Lattices: Algorithms, Complexity, and Cryptography program at the Simons Institute (Berkeley, CA, USA), January–February 2020.
- Cryptography Research Director at Zama, until November 2023.
Contact
E-mail:
ilaria (dot) chillotti (at) desilo (dot) ai
LinkedIn:
Ilaria Chillotti
GitHub:
https://github.com/ilachill, https://github.com/ilaria-zama
ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0319-4707
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