Kirill is a an associate research scientist at Columbia University Medical Center, working in Prof. Noemie Elhadad’s lab and he is a close collaborator with us. Previously, he completed a postdoctoral research associate position in our lab at the New York Genome Center. He obtained his PhD in computer science at EPFL, advised by Bryan Ford, and worked as a postdoc with Vitaly Shmatikov at Cornell Tech before joining our lab. Having specialized in protecting communication privacy and data retrieval, Kirill now strives to build real-world solutions for privacy-preserving analysis and sharing of genomic data. During his leisure time, he enjoys going to theatre plays, learning bachata, and dining in outer boroughs.