Rio Lavigne
Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Burlington, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRio Lavigne is a Technical Staff researcher and CS PhD with 12 years of experience applying cryptography and privacy research to real-world systems. Advised by Vinod Vaikuntanathan and Virginia Williams, Rio has led work on private multiparty communication, property-preserving hashing bounds, and a novel fine-grained cryptographic model that bridges theory and practical hardness assumptions. He has translated deep research into industry impact through roles at Apple (user privacy), Algorand (smart contract research), and now MIT Lincoln Laboratory, combining protocol design with systems-minded implementation. Rio’s background mixes rigorous theory (PhD from MIT, earlier studies at Stanford) with internships at Google, Microsoft, and Stanford, giving him a rare fluency across complexity theory, applied cryptography, and production constraints. He is currently on the job market seeking opportunities where he can grow as both a researcher and a technical project leader. An underappreciated strength is his track record of moving cutting-edge cryptographic models toward concrete application domains like blockchain and privacy-preserving systems.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMathematics, Computer Sciecne, Mathematics, Computer Sciecne at Stanford UniversityGithub contributions (2)
riolavigne/Adaptive-Merkle-Signature
Sep 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:23 commits in 8 months
riolavigne/thesis
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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