James Chiang

James Hsin-yu Chiang is a Postdoc Researcher in the Systems Security Group at ETH Zurich. Prior to joining ETH, he was a Cryptography Postdoc at Aarhus University, hosted by Ivan Damgård. He earned his PhD from the Technical University of Denmark as a recipient of the DTU Compute Fellowship, and completed his undergraduate studies at UCLA with distinction. His research focuses on privacy-preserving technologies, with current work spanning digital identity systems, confidential machine learning, blockchain protocols and secure multi-party computation.

Prior to his PhD, James designed flight hardware for Mars missions at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, advised global technology clients at the Boston Consulting Group, co-founded data-science startups in Switzerland, and contributed to open-source libraries implementing the original Bitcoin protocol.