About Me

“Do not take a course under this professor. He expects students to submit assignments by the due date.”

Hi! I’m Jonathan Takeshita (竹下ジョナサン賢), and I am currently an Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University, where I am appointed in both the Department of Computer Science and School of Cybersecurity. The School is the first of its kind in the United States, and brings with its inception a wealth of new opportunities for cross-disciplinary work. My research spans a wide array of topics in privacy, including homomorphic encryption, trusted hardware, hardware acceleration for cryptography, private data aggregation, image deduplication, LLM security, and private advertising, as well as more diverse areas such as AI in education and music theory. I have also taught or tutored several courses in STEM subjects and music at a few different institutions now. I am currently a member of the ODU Cybersecurity Graduate Committee and the ODU Computer Science Systems Committee. For more information about my research, teaching, etc., please see the other pages on this site.

Previously, I was a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, advised by Dr. Taeho Jung. My graduate studies were generously supported by the Jack and Mary Ann Remick Fellowship in Engineering, which is one of the most prestigious funded fellowships offered by Notre Dame. After Notre Dame, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, where I was advised by Dr. Yang Cao. I hold a B.S.E. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and a B.A. in Engineering Physics and Music from Albion College. I have held various positions in research, development, and teaching at these institutions, as well as at Meta, Google, Epic, Washington University in St. Louis, Cornami, and Schoolcraft College.

Besides research, I enjoy classical piano, teaching computer science, C/C++ programming, Linux gaming, and Michigan football.