Summary
Jacob Alperin-sheriff is a Senior Cybersecurity Research Scientist with nine years of experience at the intersection of cryptography, machine learning, and cloud engineering, currently supporting DARPA and federal research at Peraton Labs. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and contributed to NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography standardization, bringing deep expertise in lattice-based schemes and privacy-enhancing algorithms. His work spans building efficient PIR algorithms at Enveil to architecting ML-driven open-source intelligence tools and automated audit processing in federal contexts. Comfortable moving research into production, he combines rigorous academic foundations with hands-on engineering across Dockerized cloud stacks and secure data pipelines. Based in Olney, Maryland, he blends cryptographic theory with pragmatic solutions for national-security and privacy-preserving analytics.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
BS Mathematics and Computer Science, BS Mathematics and Computer Science at The George Washington University
English, Hebrew