Samir Menon

Samir Menon

samir@sailresearch.com

CTO at Sail Research

Before: OS security at Apple, GPU enclaves at Blyss, SWE at Yubico, research in the Stanford Applied Cryptography Group

I am a co-founder, with Neil, of Sail Research, an inference provider focused on long-running agents.

I previously worked in the Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) group at Apple, on TLS and related internet technologies. Before that, I co-founded Blyss. We worked on running LLMs in hardware enclaves, and SDK for private information retrieval.

Before that, I was a software engineer at Yubico, where I worked on secure device manufacturing and programming.

I've also done research in homomorphic encryption and private information retrieval.

I got my B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science in 2019 from Stanford University; my tracks were Systems and Computer & Network Security.

I TA'd or SL'd for 11 quarters at Stanford, including for Prof. Dan Boneh's CS 255 (cryptography) and CS 251 (blockchain) classes, and the CS 143 (compilers) class. I also did research in the Applied Cryptography group on speeding up lattice-based SNARKs.

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