James Choncholas

Ph.D. Student - Advised by Ada Gavrilovska
at Georgia Institute of Technology


Hi! I’m a computer science PhD student at Georgia Tech. My current research area is systems, specifically ascribing privacy guarantees to methods for solving optimization problems. I’m currently working on privacy preserving machine learning, localization (a problem in computer vision), and resource allocation. More generally, I’m interested in privacy preserving computation, cryptography, and secure systems.

Work

  1. Choncholas, James and Kachana, Pujith and André, Mateus and Gregoire, Phillips and Gavrilovska, Ada (2024). Snail: Secure Single Iteration Localization . Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS).
  2. Choncholas, James and Bhardwaj, Ketan and Kolesnikov, Vlad and Gavrilovska, Ada (2023). Angler: Dark Pool Resource Allocation . ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC).
  3. Choncholas, James and Bhardwaj, Ketan and Gavrilovska, Ada (2023). TGh: A TEE/GC Hybrid Enabling Confidential FaaS Platforms . Cryptology ePrint Archive.
  4. Choncholas, James and Bhardwaj, Ketan and Gavrilovska, Ada (2021). The Performance Argument for Blockchain-based Edge DNS Caching . ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC).
  5. Choncholas, James and Bhardwaj, Ketan and Gavrilovska, Ada (2021). MPC Benchmarking and Optimization for Edge Systems . Semiconductor Research Corporation TECHCON.
  6. Choncholas, James and Bhardwaj, Ketan and Gavrilovska, Ada (2020). GeoENS: Blockchain-based Infrastructure for Service Discovery at the Edge . USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge).
  7. Hsu, Ke-Jou and Choncholas, James and Bhardwaj, Ketan and Gavrilovska, Ada (2020). DNS Does Not Suffice for MEC-CDN . ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets).
  8. Choncholas, James and Bhardwaj, Ketan and Gavrilovska, Ada (2020). GeoENS Lightening Presentation . Ethereum Name Service Workshop.

Non-Work

  • Outreach – Queer Science (2023, 2024)
  • Student Advisee, Pujith Kacahana – PURA Award Winner (2023)
  • Travel Grant - Symposium on Edge Computing (2021)
  • Best Presentation Runner Up - Semiconductor Research Corporation’s TECHCON (2021)
  • Presidents Fellowship - Georgia Institute of Technology (2019-2024)
  • Bruce W. Shand Engineering Scholarship (2015, 2016)
  • Engineering Expo First Place Exhibitor - University of Wisconsin - Madison (2015)
  • Grainger Scholarship (2013, 2014)