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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 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.

Research Interests

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.

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