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Daniel G. Alabi

Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Affiliate, Coordinated Science Lab
Affiliate, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Email: alabid [at] illinois [dot] edu

Short Bio

I am an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Until June 2025, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University and a junior fellow in the Simons Society of Fellows. I received my S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. Also, I am the president and co-founder of NaijaCoder Inc.

Research Interests

Keywords: privacy, information theory (classical and quantum), cryptography, AI/ML security.

My primary research interests span the theoretical aspects of private and secure communication. I also study the resulting tradeoffs in computational and statistical resources. Example computational resources include communication, randomness, time, memory, and parallelism. Example statistical resources include samples drawn from an unknown distribution, as well as labeled examples used for classification or regression.

Here is my research group website.
Check out some of my research papers here.
See my GitHub page for some code artifacts.
I sometimes blog here.

Courses

My Office

Coordinated Science Lab (CSL) Building Room 118
1308 W Main Street MC 228
Urbana, IL 61801