Andreea B. Alexandru

Open-source FHE software and tools

• OpenFHE: fully homomorphic encryption library (core developer, cryptography team).
• openfhe-hexl: Intel HEXL (AVX) backend that accelerates OpenFHE on Intel processors.
• FIDESlib: server-side CKKS GPU library, fully interoperable with OpenFHE.
• zkOpenFHE: a zero-knowledge-proof-augmented fork of OpenFHE.
• HEIR: Google's MLIR-based compiler toolchain for homomorphic encryption.
• FHEON: configurable framework for developing encrypted neural networks.
• FHE benchmarking suite: an open suite for benchmarking homomorphic encryption (manager).
• FHERMA challenges: community challenges for building FHE components (challenge committee).

FHE community and learning

• Homomorphic Encryption Standard: the community security standard from HomomorphicEncryption.org.
• Security Guidelines for Implementing Homomorphic Encryption: community guidance on choosing secure parameters.
• FHERMA Cookbook: worked FHE components for privacy-preserving applications (co-author).
• Simons Institute lattices program: recorded lectures on the theory underlying modern FHE.
• OpenFHE Discourse forum: covers OpenFHE and general FHE questions (regular contributor).
• FHE.org resources: curated introductions, lectures, and a community Discord.

Schematic literature reviews

• Consensus-related definitions
• Distance bounding

PhD life

Accounts by people who have been through it:

• Ronald Azuma: A Graduate School Survival Guide
• Andrej Karpathy: A Survival Guide to a PhD
• Mihir Bellare: The PhD Experience

Writing and presenting

• Simon Peyton Jones: How to Give a Great Research Talk
• Scott A. Socolofsky: How to Write a Research Journal Paper
• Justin L. Matthews: Designing Effective Conference Posters

Fun science comics and articles

• Abstruse Goose (Sadly, it's gone, but archived here)
• Wait But Why
• xkcd
• PhD Comics
• The Coding Love