Jonathan Takeshita

Jonathan Takeshita

Assistant Professor @ ODU

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2026

Earned Albion’s Young Alumni Award!

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Last Friday, I had the honor of being presented with one of Albion College’s Young Alumni Awards at the Alumni Awards Ceremony. Returning to Albion is always a great experience, and being honored alongside my old Physics professor Aaron Miller made it extra special. My acceptance speech, paraphrased a bit, was something along these lines:

Mid-semester Updates

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I usually save updates for the end of the semester. However, I am in the happy position of having several bits of good news to report:

  • Along with my co-PI Qun Li, my lab has been awarded a grant from Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Coastal Virginia (COVA CCI) ($80,000), to study the application of trusted hardware to agentic AI. Special thanks to Dr. Li for his excellent mentorship! A poster showing some preliminary results will be presented at the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) Symposium next week by my undergraduate researcher Aaron Killingbeck.
  • I have been awarded a CURE grant from ODU ($2,000) to develop a course, tentatively titled “Success and Failure in Technological Enterprise”. This research-based course will probably be offered in Spring 2027 and annually thereafter, so keep an eye out! I am also actively looking for guest lecturers for this course.
  • I recently returned to the Tokyo Institute of Technology to give a talk “Understanding FHE Performance in the Cloud Era” to the Trustworthy Data Science and AI Lab (who were wonderful hosts, as always).
  • I also returned to the Albion College Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (also great hosts) to give a talk “Improving Private Bioinformatics with Homomorphic Encryption”.
  • On the teaching side: I am told that my LaTeX homework templates used in my course CS 463 (Cryptography for Cybersecurity) are being used in at least one other course.

Some updates for the start of the year

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It’s been about a year since I arrived at ODU! In that time, I’ve been fortunate to work with brilliant colleagues and great students. I’ve started my lab, submitted papers and grants, continued to improve my courses, and settled into ODU. As my research and lab continue to grow, I have some new paper acceptances to announce:

  • “PPIMCE: An In-Memory Computing Fabric for Privacy Preserving Computing”. Haoran Geng, Jianqiao Mo, Dayane Reis, Jonathan Takeshita, Taeho Jung, Brandon Reagen, Michael Niemier, Xiaobo Sharon Hu. Journal of Computer Science and Technology (2025).
  • “Encrypted Post Deployment Calibration on MNIST with CKKS and Chebyshev Polynomials”. Shadman Mahmood Khan Pathan, Qianlong Wang, Jonathan Takeshita, Sakan Binte Imran, Sachin Shetty. IEEE ICNC 2026.

2025

Paper Accepted!

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I am pleased to announce that our paper “Select-Then-Compute: Encrypted Label Selection and Analytics over Distributed Datasets using FHE” has been accepted to the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), to be presented in 2026. The authors are Nirajan Koirala, Seunghun Paik, Sam Martin, Helena Berens, Tasha Januszewicz, Jonathan Takeshita, Jae Hong Seo, and Taeho Jung.

Paper Accepted!

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I am pleased to announce that my paper “Duty of Care: A Call for Open and Responsible AI Innovation in Healthcare” has been accepted to the AAAI 2025 Fall Symposium Series, specifically to the Safe, Ethical, Certified, Uncertainty-aware, Robust, and Explainable AI for Health (SECURE-AI4H) symposium. The paper received high scores from reviewers, with many comments agreeing with the paper’s salience and warnings. AI is only “inevitable”1 if nobody does anything about it - this paper is my contribution to cooling down the hype cycle.

  1. Armony, Yoav, and Orit Hazzan. “Inevitability of AI Technology in Education.” ↩

Some Updates

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It’s been a while since I updated my website! This is the new page for myself and my lab, superseding my page at Notre Dame (though that page will hopefully stay up for a while).

Research programming tips from my time at Notre Dame

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(These were originally written during my time as a graduate student. After a bit of time and perspective, I should note that this is tailored to the kind of research that I do, and also to my personal way of doing things, which has worked for me well in the past and hopefully is useful to students at some point. The wise student also knows when and how to ignore these guidelines. A more full description of my programming guidelines for my research group is in progress and should be available Soon(TM).)