David Froelicher
Research Manager at Swisscom
Boston, Massachusetts, Switzerland
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Top SchoolDavid Froelicher is a Research Manager at Swisscom Digital Lab with a decade of experience bridging academia and industry on analytics, networking, AI and security projects. He holds a PhD from EPFL and completed postdoctoral research at MIT and the Broad Institute focused on secure distributed analytics, federated systems, and genomic privacy using advanced privacy-enhancing technologies. At Swisscom he leads collaborations with master’s students to tackle real-world research challenges, translating cryptography-based distributed computation advances into applied solutions. Known for combining rigorous academic research with practical implementation, he has a track record of turning privacy-preserving protocols into deployable systems. Based in Boston with Swiss roots, he brings deep expertise in applied cryptography and a knack for mentoring early-career researchers toward industry-impactful outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Systèmes de communication, Master's degree Systèmes de communication at EPFLmaturité, maturité at Gymnase de morges
French, German, English
Github Skills (35)
authority10
privacy-protection10
trust10
security9
cryptography9
protocols9
scalable8
data-sharing8
distributed-systems8
homomorphic-encryption7
ipfs7
machine-learning7
privacy-preserving7
privacy7
risk-management7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ldsec/Lattigo_genotype_imputation
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
froelich/sf-relate
Nov 2023 - Sep 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 10 months
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