Eileen Nolan

About Me

Eileen Nolan

Hello!

I am a third-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 very grateful to be advised by Dr. Anna Lysyanskaya.

My current research interests include:

  • Anonymous tokens with hidden metadata
  • Anonymous credentials and mercurial signatures
  • Private set intersection and heavy hitters
  • Cryptographic image authentication

Publications

  • SMA2RT: Secret-Metadata Attribute-based Anonymous Rate-limited Tokens
    Anna Lysyanskaya and Eileen Nolan.
    In Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2026. (See also ePrint 2026/518)
  • Mosaic: A Modular Framework for Private Fuzzy Heavy Hitters
    Gayathri Garimella, Peihan Miao, Eileen Nolan, Phuoc Pham Van Long, and Siddarth Sitaraman.
    In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2026).

Posters & Technical Reports

  • Poster: Secret-Metadata Attribute-based Anonymous Rate-limited Tokens
    RSAC 2026 Conference Security Scholar Poster Session, San Francisco CA, March 2026. [Abstract & Poster]
  • Benchmarking Neural Network Architectures for Strong Gravitational Lens Classification
    Fermilab Intern Poster Presentations, Batavia IL, Aug. 2023. Published as OSTI Technical Report.
    [DOI: 10.2172/1995270]

Beyond Research

I love outdoor activities. I enjoy running, biking, swimming, and hiking to name a few.

I love wildlife, especially birds, and I have a growing collection of ducks in my office.

(If you stop by my office I might give you a mini duck).