Giacomo Fenzi
Doctoral Student at EPFL IC
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolGiacomo Fenzi is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at EPFL specializing in probabilistic proof systems and their practical deployment, with 11 years of industry and research experience bridging cryptography and high-performance software. His background spans rigorous academic training at St Andrews and ETH Zürich and hands-on engineering internships at Twitter and Goldman Sachs, giving him a rare blend of theoretical depth and production-minded coding. He has applied systems-level thinking to cryptographic primitives, zkSNARKs, and Rust-based mathematical algorithms, including work on computational group theory and stabiliser chains. Based in Milan, he teaches and researches at leading Swiss institutions while pursuing research that connects proof-system theory with real-world, deployable protocols. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates abstract cryptographic concepts into performant implementations, often surfacing optimizations that aren’t obvious from the theory alone.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of St AndrewsInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Worth SchoolMaster's degree, Cyber Security, Master's degree, Cyber Security at ETH ZürichDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
English, Italian, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (81)
elliptic-curve10
curve10
dotnet9
integer9
rust9
finite-field9
permutation9
workspace9
intervals9
polynomials9
cryptography9
ide9
multiplexer9
compiler8
interval-arithmetic8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
WizardOfMenlo/whir
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
WHIR 🌪️: Reed–Solomon Proximity Testing with Super-Fast Verification
Contributions:111 reviews, 119 PRs, 125 pushes in 5 months
WizardOfMenlo/wizardofmenlo.github.io
Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:140 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years 11 months
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