Marcel Keller
Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO's Data61
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolMarcel Keller is a Senior Research Scientist based in Sydney with 17 years of experience bridging cryptographic theory and practical systems for secure multi-party computation (MPC). After earning a PhD under Ivan Damgård and a long research stint with Nigel Smart at Bristol, he has been a core contributor to MP-SPDZ, notably unifying SPDZ-2 and SPDZ-Yao into a single, versatile MPC framework. His work uniquely emphasizes implemented research—about two thirds of his publications include code and deployments—so he routinely ships protocol designs into production-grade C++ code. At CSIRO’s Data61 he focuses on translating advanced MPC primitives into usable software, drawing on a rare combination of formal cryptography expertise and hands-on engineering. He’s also an experienced speaker and program committee member for top crypto venues, reflecting his influence across both academic and developer communities.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Aarhus UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Mathematics, Master of Science - MS, Mathematics at ETH Zurich
Github Skills (4)
secure-computation10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
cryptography8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
data61/MP-SPDZ
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Versatile framework for multi-party computation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 releases, 1 review, 391 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Marcel merged two versions of the SPDZ framework (SPDZ-2 and SPDZ-Yao) into a unified codebase. Their primary contribution involved integrating the two versions and resolving code differences in the BMR/Party.cpp file, indicating a focus on the framework's core functionality. This suggests the user worked on the foundational code for multi-party computation, specifically the party-related logic.
multi-party-computationsecure-computationmultiparty-computationmulti-partycomputation
mkskeller/SPDZ-BMR-ORAM
Oct 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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