Eileen Nolan

About Me

Eileen Nolan

Hello!

I am currently a second-year computer science Ph.D. student at Brown University. My research focuses on privacy-preserving cryptography, where I aim to develop technologies that enhance online privacy and address the growing vulnerabilities of our digital lives. I am advised by Dr. Anna Lysyanskaya.

My current research interests include:

  • Anonymous tokens with hidden metadata
  • Mercurial signatures and their applications
  • Cryptographic image authentication to combat misinformation with the rise of AI
  • Onion encryption for secure and private message routing
  • Efficient, round-deterministic threshold signature schemes
  • Federated learning for decentralized and privacy-aware model training
  • Private Set Intersection (PSI) and related problems such as heavy hitters, with applications in secure and private ride-sharing systems

Publications

  • SMA2RT: Secret-Metadata Attribute-based Anonymous Rate-limited Tokens
    Anna Lysyanskaya and Eileen Nolan.
    Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2026/518, 2026. [PDF]

Beyond Research

I like to run, swim, and bike :)

Contact

You can find more info about me on my LinkedIn.

Feel free to reach out to me through my email, eileen_nolan [at] brown.edu.