Theresa Stadler

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer at the Security & Privacy Engineering Lab at EPFL (Switzerland) led by Carmela Troncoso.

My research focuses on the potentially harmful aspects of data processing systems centred around questions such as: How to evaluate the privacy properties of opaque data processing systems? What are the privacy limits of machine learning-based applications? What learning tasks are solvable under good privacy and good utility simultaneously? My work has been featured on multiple national media outlets and continues to inform policy makers on a national and European level.

Before joining EPFL, I previously worked as a researcher for Privitar, a London-based start-up, where I developed enterprise software that implements privacy-enhancing technologies and aims to makes these technologies available to organisations at scale. I hold a PhD in Computer Science from EPFL (Switzerland) and a Master’s degree in Computational Neuroscience (Biomathematics) from the University of Tübingen (Germany).