Nicolas Papernot is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, and a faculty member at the Vector Institute where he holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, and a faculty affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute.

His research interests are at the intersection of security, privacy, and machine learning. A sample of his research includes cleverhans.io which he co-authored, and research in proof-of-learning, collaborative learning beyond federation, dataset inference, machine unlearning, differentially private ML, and adversarial examples.

Prof. Papernot earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, working with Prof. Patrick McDaniel and was supported by a Google PhD Fellowship. Upon graduating, he spent a year at Google Brain in Úlfar Erlingsson's group.