David Froelicher

Research Manager

Swisscom Digital Lab

Hi, I’m David Froelicher, a Research Manager at the Swisscom Digital Lab. Together with Master’s students from Swiss universities, we tackle real-world research challenges, bridging the gap between academia and industry across diverse fields like analytics, networking, AI, and security.

Before joining Swisscom in 2024, I completed a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT, where I focused on secure distributed analytics, AI, and genomic privacy, leveraging advanced privacy-enhancing technologies and distributed algorithms.

Earlier in my academic journey, I earned my PhD from EPFL in 2021, specializing in the design of cryptography-based solutions for secure distributed computation. I also hold a Bachelor’s (2014) and Master’s (2016) degree in Computer Science, with a focus on IT security, from EPFL.

Contact

david.froelicher2@swisscom.com
Swisscom Digital Lab, 1015 Lausanne

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2022-2024
MIT & The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2016-2021
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Bachelor (2014) & Master (2016) of Science in Communication Systems
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

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Experience

CEO

GenCoin

January 2021 – Present California

Responsibilities include:

Analysing
Modelling
Deploying

Professor of Semiconductor Physics

University X

January 2016 – December 2020 California

Taught electronic engineering and researched semiconductor physics.

Accomplishments

Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Coursera Jan 2021

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Blockchain Fundamentals

edX Jan 2021

Formulated informed blockchain models, hypotheses, and use cases.

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Object-Oriented Programming in R

DataCamp Jul 2020 – Dec 2020

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H. Smajlovic, David Froelicher, A. Shajii, B. Berger, H. Cho, I. Numanagic (2025). Shechi: A Secure Distributed Computation Compiler Based on Multiparty Homomorphic Encryption. USENIX Security 2025.

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H. Cho, David Froelicher, J. Chen, M. Edupalli, A. Pyrgelis, J. R. Troncoso-Pastoriza, J.-P. Hubaux, B. Berger (2025). Secure and Federated Genome-Wide Association Studies for Biobank-Scale Datasets. Nature Genetics.

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H. Cho, David Froelicher, N. Dokmai, A. Nandi, S. Sadhuka, M. Man-Hou Hong, B. Berger (2024). Privacy-Enhancing Technologies in Biomedical Data Science. Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science.

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M. Hong, David Froelicher, R. Magner, V. Popic, B. Berger, H. Cho (2023). Secure Discovery of Genetic Relatives across Large-Scale and Distributed Genomic Datasets. Recomb 2024 (M.H. received best student paper award) & Under Revision at Genome Research.

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David Froelicher, H. Cho, M. Edupalli, J. S. Sousa, J.-P. Bossuat, A. Pyrgelis, J. R. Troncoso-Pastoriza, J.-P. Hubaux, B. Berger (2023). Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Federated Principal Component Analysis. IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy 2023.

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