Pedro Alves
Computer Scientist at Zama
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolPedro Alves is a Senior GPU Engineer and computer scientist based in São Paulo with 14 years of experience building high-performance, privacy-preserving systems. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from Unicamp, and his work blends cryptography and functional encryption with practical GPU-accelerated software. At Zama he focuses on bringing cryptographic research into production through optimized CUDA implementations, and his past projects include computational tools for geophysics and biology. He was a visiting researcher with the Aarhus Crypto Group, reflecting strong ties to the international cryptography research community. Pedro is as comfortable designing algorithms as he is engineering low-level GPU kernels that unlock real-world privacy-preserving computation.
14 years of coding experience
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
1,697reputation
355kreached
11answers
35questions
Github Skills (121)
python10
fhe10
security10
encryption10
crypto10
integer-arithmetic10
rust10
gdpr10
privacy10
cryptography10
privacy-enhancing-technologies10
homomorphic-encryption10
fourier-transform9
hardware-acceleration9
tiddlywiki9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pdroalves/elgamal_cipher
Feb 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
pdroalves/fft_ntt_comparison
Aug 2015 - Sep 2019
A simple implementation of the Fast Fourier Transform and Number Theoretic Transform using Python.
Contributions:17 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
fourier-transformpython
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