Scholar
Peter Snyder
Google Scholar ID: vdLx5woAAAAJ
Brave Software
Citations & Impact
Citations
926
H-index
16
i10-index
21
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple research papers on privacy and cybersecurity, including 'Local Frames: Exploiting Inherited Origins to Bypass Content Blockers', 'Nebula: Efficient, Private and Accurate Histogram Estimation', and more. One of his papers, 'STAR: Secret Sharing for Private Threshold Aggregation Reporting', won the Best Paper Award at CCS 2022.
Research Experience
- Worked as the Principal Privacy Researcher at Brave Software. Currently, he is an advisor for the TIMBY project, a startup building private and secure reporting software for workers, journalists, and activists.
Education
- Completed his PhD in the Computer Science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, working under the guidance of Chris Kanich in the BITS Lab.
Background
- Principal Privacy Researcher at Brave Software, working on new ways to improve privacy and security on the Web, and to fix new threats to Brave browser users. Works under Hamed Haddadi and Brendan Eich, alongside a great team of researchers, engineers, and privacy experts. Also co-chairs PrivacyWG (previously PING) in W3C, which reviews proposed new Web standards for privacy risks and concerns.
Co-authors