Theory Seminar, Wednesday Dec 31: Uri Stemmer (TAU) - Differential privacy: Where we are, what's holding us back, and what's next

[Arnold Filtser]

Hi all,

This week (Wed Jan 21, at 12) we will meet for our theory seminar.

Location: Building 503 room 226.

Looking forward to seeing you all there,

Arnold

https://theory.cs.biu.ac.il/

Speaker:  Uri Stemmer (TAU)
Title:  Differential privacy: Where we are, what's holding us back, and what's next
Abstract:   I will survey some of the existing gaps between the theory and practice of differential privacy and mention some of my attempts to tackle these challenges. In particular, I will present recent research aimed at formalizing the relaxed security goal of specifically preventing "reconstruction" attacks, rather than "all" attacks. I will discuss the benefits of this approach as well as the theoretical challenges involved in defining reconstruction rigorously. Based on two works (ITCS'25 + ITCS'26), joint with Edith Cohen, Haim Kaplan, Yishay Mansour, Shay Moran, Kobbi Nissim, and Eliad Tsfadia.