Carmela Troncoso

Carmela Troncoso is an Associate Professor at EPFL heading the SPRING Lab focused on Security and Privacy Engineering. Her work addresses technology's societal impact through machine learning security, privacy-enhancing technologies, and privacy engineering frameworks.

She leads significant research in decentralized privacy systems, including contributions to the DP-3T contact tracing protocol adopted by Google/Apple during COVID-19. Her lab develops tools for privacy evaluation including Synthetic Data Evaluation frameworks and anonymous authentication libraries.

Awards include the ERCIM Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, CNIL Privacy Protection Award, and IEEE Distinguished Paper Award. She was recognized as a Fortune 40 Under 40 Technology Leader in 2020.