PierreĀ Tholoniat
PhD Candidate
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarPierre Tholoniat is a PhD candidate and software engineer based in New York with eight years of experience focused on differential privacy, applied cryptography, and distributed systems. He bridges rigorous academic research with practical engineering, building privacy-preserving systems that scale in real-world environments. Known for a deep technical grounding in cryptography and systems, he translates complex theoretical guarantees into deployable architectures. Although primarily research-focused, he maintains an active developer mindset evidenced by his GitHub presence and hands-on work. Fluent in both research and implementation, he is well-suited to roles that require turning advanced privacy and security concepts into production-ready solutions.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (101)
python10
windows10
security10
deep-learning10
smart-contracts10
secure-computation10
markdown10
solidity10
linux10
latex10
differential-privacy10
electron10
data-science10
vue10
macos10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
OpenMined/sycret
Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
Function Secret Sharing library for Python and Rust with hardware acceleration (PETS '22)
Contributions:12 releases, 11 reviews, 76 commits in 11 months
hardware-accelerationpythonrust
columbia/cookiemonster
Aug 2024 - Jun 2025
Efficient On-device Budgeting for Differentially-Private Ad-Measurement Systems (SOSP '24)
Contributions:8 PRs, 23 pushes, 12 branches in 9 months
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