Patricia Thaine is a Computer Science Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Toronto and a Postgraduate Affiliate at the Vector Institute researching privacy-preserving natural language processing, with a focus on applied cryptography. Her research interests also include computational methods for lost language decipherment. She is the Co-Founder and CEO of Private AI, a Toronto- and Berlin-based startup creating a suite of privacy tools that make it easy to comply with data protection regulations, mitigate cybersecurity threats, and maintain customer trust.