Writing

The reasoning behind the tools, written down — essays, research areas, and the papers that came out of both.

Research Areas

Privacy & Distributed Systems

Examined not only as technical problems but as expressions of deeper questions about trust and control in digital infrastructure.

Active

Philosophy of Digitalization

An inquiry into how digital systems shape the conditions of civilizational quality — from governance and currency to urban life and public services.

Ongoing

Publications

Federated Learning

Byzantine-Resilient Aggregation Under Combined Differential Privacy and Homomorphic Encryption in Hierarchical Federated Learning for Healthcare

A dual-layer defense combining MAD-based anomaly detection and reputation-weighted aggregation on plaintext gradient norms — preserving Byzantine resilience under simultaneous CKKS homomorphic encryption and differential privacy in hierarchical healthcare federated learning.

2026 · Manuscript

Federated Learning

Privacy-Utility Tradeoffs in Hierarchical Federated Learning Under Combined Differential Privacy and CKKS Homomorphic Encryption for Distributed Healthcare Networks

Examining the tradeoff between differential privacy guarantees and model utility when combining CKKS homomorphic encryption in hierarchical federated learning, applied to distributed healthcare networks.

2026 · Manuscript