Jacob Alperin-sheriff
Senior Cybersecurity Research Scientist at Peraton Labs
Olney, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolJacob 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.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBS Mathematics and Computer Science, BS Mathematics and Computer Science at The George Washington University
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
twitter-api9
no-authentication9
scrape8
twitter8
facebook7
frontend6
certificate6
aws-amplify6
aws-vpn6
amazon-web-services6
python6
authentication6
javascript6
encryption5
homomorphic-encryption5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jacobmas/MTurkScripts
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:348 commits, 1243 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
jacobmas/presentations
Feb 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:13 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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