I am an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Until 2025, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University and a junior fellow in the Simons Society of Fellows. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University. Also, I am the president and co-founder of NaijaCoder, Inc. NaijaCoder aims to proliferate early algorithms education in Africa with a focus on Nigeria.
Keywords: privacy & cryptography, information theory, data mining & databases.
My research interests primarily lie in topics related to data safety and verifiable computing. In particular, I am interested in how to address privacy and security concerns in machine learning and also study the resulting tradeoffs in computational and statistical resources. Example computational resources (whether classical or quantum) include communication, randomness, time, memory, and parallelism. Example statistical resources include samples (or labeled examples for classification or regression) drawn from an unknown distribution.