Jacob White
Graduate Research Assistant
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob White is a PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant at Purdue University specializing in applied cryptography, privacy, and formal methods with eight years of software and research experience. He designs and implements practical anonymity-preserving systems using state-of-the-art primitives like elliptic curves and zkSNARKs, balancing theoretical rigor with real-world efficiency and accountability. Jacob blends technical depth in mathematics and information security with a human-centered perspective—considering ethics, usability, and human factors when building privacy technologies. His background includes full-stack industry experience and hands-on leadership roles that sharpen his communication and team-training skills. Driven by curiosity, he pursues connections across disciplines, from psychology to music, to inform more holistic and usable security solutions.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science; Mathematics, 3.68/4.00 GPA, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science; Mathematics, 3.68/4.00 GPA at Purdue University
English
Github Skills (10)
cryptography8
morse5
react4
react-component4
swipe-gestures3
react-native3
morse-code2
audio2
snowflake1
mobile1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jdwhite48/groth-sahai-rs
Aug 2021 - Feb 2023
A Rust library for the Groth-Sahai non-interactive witness-indistinguishable and zero-knowledge proof system
Contributions:1 review, 89 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 5 months
bilinear-groupbilinear-pairingcryptographycryptography-libraryniwi
jdwhite88/magni-read
Jun 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 69 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
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