“Fixing your computer gets a lot easier once you become willing to just reinstall the operating system.”
Hi! I’m Jonathan Takeshita (竹下ジョナサン賢), and I was a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Notre Dame du Lac. I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, where I am advised by Dr. Yang Cao. My doctoral studies were advised by Dr. Taeho Jung, and I was a member of the Data, Security, and Privacy Lab. My graduate studies were generously supported by the Jack and Mary Ann Remick Fellowship in Engineering.
My research spans a wide array of topics including homomorphic encryption, trusted hardware, hardware acceleration for cryptography, private data aggregation, music theory, image deduplication, LLM security, and private advertising. I have also taught or tutored several courses in STEM subjects and music at a few different institutions now. For more information about my research, teaching, etc., please see the other pages on this site.
For Summer 2022, I was at Meta (formerly known as Facebook) as a Research Engineer Intern on the Statistics & Privacy team. My work at Meta focused on applying Trusted Execution Environments for use in privacy-preserving advertising analytics. For Summer 2021, I was at Google as a Software Engineering Intern on the Privacy Infrastructure Research team. At Google, I worked on research and development for homomorphic encryption. (Project details are confidential.)
I hold a B.S.E. in Computer Science from The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and a B.A. in Engineering Physics and Music from Albion College. I have held various positions in research, development, and teaching at those institutions as well as at Cornami, Epic, Washington University in St. Louis, and Schoolcraft College.
My research spans a wide range of topics in security and privacy, including work in privacy-preserving contact tracing, fully homomorphic encryption, private stream aggregation, secure multi-party computation, secure image deduplication, and compute-enabled RAM.
Besides research, I enjoy classical piano, teaching computer science, C/C++ programming, Linux gaming, and Michigan football. I also have had the honor of serving as a Vice-President of Notre Dame’s Graduate Student Government for the 2020-2021 term.