Epione: Lightweight Contact Tracing with Strong Privacy
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4 min readApr 12, 2021
My three main tips for researchers:
- To be known to be an expert in something, rather than being general in lots of areas.
- Pick two papers to read each week.
- Implement the methods from the papers and validate them.
For the papers, for me, I select one classic paper of the past — and which has hundreds of citations - and another is a fairly new paper which is showing potential. I thus search Google Scholar on a regular basis and look for papers that have relatively high citations for their recent publication. These papers perhaps show an upward tick on the method being proposed. Normally I look for at least 30 citations within a year, so this paper popped up as one of the papers to read:
It covers the Epione Protocol [1] and which can be used to alert users directly when contacts have been diagnosed as being COVID-19 positive [here]:
