Carmela Troncoso
Scientific Director at EPFL
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolCarmela Troncoso is a scientific director and privacy-focused computer scientist with over a decade of experience leading research and building deployable, privacy-preserving systems. Currently at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy and on leave as an Associate Professor at EPFL, she blends rigorous academic inquiry with practical system design to minimize societal harms from technology. Her work spans privacy-enhancing technologies, security, and critical analyses of how systems protect social values, grounded in a summa cum laude PhD from KU Leuven. Known for translating deep research into real-world impact, she has led teams across Europe and driven interdisciplinary collaborations that shape policy and engineering practice.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Security, Summa Cum Laude with congratulations from the board of examiners, PhD, Computer Security, Summa Cum Laude with congratulations from the board of examiners at Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenMaster, Telecommunication Engineering, Master, Telecommunication Engineering at Universidade de Vigo
Github Skills (27)
proximity10
privacy-enhancing-technologies9
privacy-protection9
traffic8
privacy-preserving8
security8
privacy7
tor7
browser6
portable6
evaluation2
rest2
location2
data-mining1
typescript1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
spring-epfl/SecPriv
Sep 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 year 8 months
simonoya2/ccsmain
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:11 pushes in 2 months
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