Email: ffalzon(at)ethz(dot)ch

Note: I am currently on the job market looking for research positions in the greater Zurich area.

In July 2023 I started my postdoc in the Applied Cryptography group at ETH Zurich under the guidance of Prof. Kenneth Paterson. I am currently working on projects relating to encrypted databases, authenticated data structures, private information retrieval, and private set intersection. My work is funded by the CYD Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship.

I obtained my Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2023. I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Roberto Tamassia at Brown University and by Prof. Ben Zhao at UChicago.

I am also interested in the interplay between privacy technology and the European Union’s GDPR. I was previously a part of the Bridging Privacy Definitions working group, where we co-developed computer science and legal definitions to close the gap between the two fields.

In the summer and fall semester of 2022, I interned in the Blockchain group at IBM Zurich. Prior to this, I received my M.A. in Computer Science from UChicago under the guidance of Prof. David Cash and I received my B.A. in mathematics from Rutgers University.

Latest News

• April 2023: I successfully defended my thesis and will be joining the Applied Crypto group at ETH Zurich with generous funding form Armasuisse!
• June 2022: I’m honored to be giving a talk at ETH Zurich’s ZISC Lunch Seminar on June 30. The title of the talk is “An Efficient Query Recovery Attack Against a Graph Encryption Scheme.”
• May 2022: I’ll be attending IEEE S&P in San Francisco – my first in-person conference!