Lawrence Lim
Doctoral Student at UC Santa Barbara
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLawrence Lim is a doctoral student in computer science at UC Santa Barbara with nine years of engineering and research experience spanning homomorphic encryption, distributed systems, and immersive HCI. His work has translated transformer operations to run under homomorphic encryption and produced practical performance advances—3000x pipeline speedups and 6x kernel gains—during a Google MLIR internship. He has authored or contributed to multiple conference papers across security (PoPETS), databases (EDBT), and top HCI venues (UIST, SUI), and has built end-to-end systems from AR/VR music experiences to decentralized cache layers. Lawrence combines hands-on systems optimization with protocol design—e.g., novel key rotation protocols that eliminate race conditions—and mentors student teams to deliver publishable results. Based in California, he blends deep cryptographic inference expertise with a strong record of moving research into efficient, real-world implementations.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara
Github Skills (13)
homomorphic-encryption10
database5
benchmarking5
benchmark5
jdbc3
music3
perf3
sql3
dbms2
api2
linux1
cpp1
collaboration1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lawrencekhlim/UpdatableEncryptionResearchProject
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:173 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
lawrencekhlim/QUICKeR
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch, 3 tags in 1 year 4 months
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