Thomas Schneider

Thomas Schneider is Professor of Cryptography and Privacy Engineering at TU Darmstadt. His research develops privacy-preserving cryptographic protocols for applications including private set intersection, mobile contact discovery, genomic privacy, and secure computation compilers. He leads the Engineering Cryptographic Protocols Group (ENCRYPTO) and has received both ERC Starting (2019) and Consolidator Grants (2023).

Schneider's current projects include:

• Developing efficient private set intersection protocols for mobile applications
• Privacy-preserving machine learning frameworks
• Hardware-assisted cryptographic protocols
• Secure computation for cloud environments