Full Name
Carmela Troncoso
Job Title
Assistant professor
Company
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Speaker Bio
If you installed an app during the pandemic to alert you if had contact with someone who’d tested positive for the virus, thank Carmela Troncoso. Her work on the Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing system, or DP-3T, made passive contact tracing easy without asking citizens to surrender private data. It stores temporary, anonymized contact data on phones instead of a server, which makes hacks and data mining hard. Apple and Google used this technology to develop their tools.