Associate Professor Olya Ohrimenko

Olya Ohrimenko joined the School of Computing and Information Systems in early 2020. Prior to joining the University of Melbourne she spent 6 years at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, where she was a Principal Researcher leading work on Confidential AI and I/O side-channel mitigation. Between 2014 and 2016, she was the Microsoft Fellow at Darwin College in Cambridge University. Her research interests include privacy, integrity and security of machine learning algorithms, data analysis tools, multi-party computation and systems relying on cloud storage, computation and hardware. Her goal is to identify and prevent potential vulnerabilities and to design and build efficient solutions with provable guarantees. She also enjoys working on algorithms, data structures and theory.