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hhaider4

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Jun 4, 2020, 3:40:06 PM6/4/20
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Good to be here. 😊

How about an Introduction Thread? 🙂

Name: Ali Haider Bangash
Organization(s): SCM, STMU; CoronaWhy; CLAIRE; OpenDP 😊
Interests: NLP, Computer Vision

frank.alcantara

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Jun 23, 2020, 1:32:59 PM6/23/20
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Name: Frank de Alcantara
Organization(s): Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUC-PR), OpenDP 😊
Interests: NLP, Machine learning, Programming Languages, Complilation and Electromagnetism.

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Jun 23, 2020, 3:42:40 PM6/23/20
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Happy to meet everyone.

Name: Alicia Moniz
Organizations(s): Microsoft AI MVP, Avanade/Accenture, PASS.org; OpenDP😊
Interests: NLP, Computer Vision

innocen...@gmail.com

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Jun 23, 2020, 3:52:54 PM6/23/20
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Name: Innocent Obi
Organization(s): MIT Civic Data Design Lab, OpenDP 😊
Interests: Social Computing, PL, Mechanism Design, HCI, Urban Planning

sahibsingh570

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Jun 23, 2020, 4:20:58 PM6/23/20
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Hey everyone :)

Name: Sahib Singh
Organizations(s): Ford; OpenMined; OpenDP😊
Interests: NLP, ML
:)

Padraig Oleary

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Jun 25, 2020, 10:49:54 AM6/25/20
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Excited about project. 

Name: Dr. Pádraig O'Leary, Founder
Organization(s): QueryLayer.com
Interests: Privacy preserving SQL queries

leor.f...@gmail.com

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Jun 25, 2020, 11:00:26 AM6/25/20
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Hi y'all
Name:  Leor Fishman
Orgs:  Harvard, Enigma, SafePaths, Elementl, OpenDP
Interests:  Blending DP with FHE/MPC/TEEs, local DP over arbitrary functions/automated sensitivity testing


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Amanjeev Sethi

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Jun 26, 2020, 8:45:13 AM6/26/20
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hello everyone

happy to be here

Name: Amanjeev (Aman) Sethi
Organization(s): CanDIG
Interests: Computing, Distributed+Federated systems, Privacy, Open source
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karthikandhiyur_n

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Jun 26, 2020, 8:45:24 AM6/26/20
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Hello Everybody

Name: Karthik Nagarajan
Organization(s): Infosys
Interests: Product Development, Differential Privacy, Data Privacy

raag...@gmail.com

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Jun 26, 2020, 8:45:28 AM6/26/20
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Hi folks,
Name: Raaghavv Devgon,
Org: Northeastern University, OpenDP !
Interest: Tech policies, data privacy and information security.

Neal Fultz

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Jul 16, 2020, 4:26:12 PM7/16/20
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Hi everyone,

Name: Neal Fultz
Org: UCLA Social Science Computing / California Center for Population Research
Interests:  Statistical computing, open source, US Census

Howard Smith

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Jul 16, 2020, 10:44:33 PM7/16/20
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Name: Howard Smith
Organization(s): Openmined, Insight,  OpenDP 😊
Interests: NLP, Computer Vision, Differential Privacy

Seth Neel

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Jul 17, 2020, 6:27:22 PM7/17/20
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Hi Everyone, 
Name: Seth Neel
Organization(s): Harvard / Harvard Business School (incoming asst. prof)
Interests: Differential Privacy, Fairness, Adaptive Data Analysis, Online Learning

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Assistant Professor (starting Fall 2021)
Department of Technology and Operations Management 

Co-founder & Chief Data Scientist


Madhav Sharma

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Jul 19, 2020, 10:17:19 AM7/19/20
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Hi everyone,

Great being a part of this group!

Name: Madhav Sharma
Organization(s): NITI Aayog, Polstrat
Interests: Tech Policy, Digital Equality, Differential Privacy, Open-Source, ML, 5G Security

Su, Weijie

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Jul 19, 2020, 10:55:24 AM7/19/20
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Hi All,

Name: Weijie Su 
Organization: University of Pennsylvania 
Interests: Differential privacy, high-dimensional statistics, statistical machine learning, optimization

Best,

Weijie


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Cecilia Ferrando

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Jul 19, 2020, 6:47:15 PM7/19/20
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Hi all,
Nice to meet everyone in this community.

Name: Cecilia Ferrando
Organization: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Interests: statistical machine learning, differential privacy

Best,



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Computer Science PhD Student
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Cheng,Yueqiang

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Jul 19, 2020, 6:47:15 PM7/19/20
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Hi Everyone

 

Name: Yueqiang Cheng

Organization(s): Baidu Security Research

Interests: Differential Privacy, Trusted Computing, Hardware Security

 

Yueqiang

 

From: Seth Neel <sethn...@gmail.com>
Date: Friday, July 17, 2020 at 3:27 PM
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Hi Everyone, 

Aaron Roth

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Jul 19, 2020, 10:21:13 PM7/19/20
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Hi all,

Name: Aaron Roth
Organization: Penn
Interests: Machine Learning, Differential Privacy, Algorithmic Fairness

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Janardhan Kulkarni

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Jul 20, 2020, 9:24:32 AM7/20/20
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Hi All,

I am Janardhan Kulkarni (Jana) at MSR, Redmond.
Nice to meet you.

Interests: optimization, private ML.

Thanks,

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Aleksandar Nikolov

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Jul 20, 2020, 9:46:05 AM7/20/20
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Hi all,

Name: Aleksandar (Sasho) Nikolov
Organization: University of Toronto
Interests: differential privacy; high dimensional geometry; discrepancy theory

Nice to meet everyone.

Sasho

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> Interests: optimization, private ML.
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Ashwin Machanavajjhala

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Jul 20, 2020, 11:20:18 AM7/20/20
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Hi all, 

Name: Ashwin Machanavajjhala
Organization: Tumult Labs and Duke University
Interests: Differential Privacy, Secure Computation, Databases

Excited to be part of the OpenDP community! 

Best
Ashwin


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Abhradeep Guha Thakurta

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Jul 20, 2020, 11:42:21 AM7/20/20
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Hi All,

Name: Abhradeep Guha Thakurta
Organization: Google Research - Brain, University of California Santa Cruz
Interests: Differential Privacy, convex optimization, online learning

Excited to be a part of OpenDP community.

Thanks and Regards,

Abhradeep Guha Thakurta


Ananya Gangavarapu

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Jul 20, 2020, 11:49:31 AM7/20/20
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Hi all,

 

Name: Ananya Gangavarapu

Organization: Ethicallyai

Interests: Differential Privacy, Federated Learning

 

Love to contribute to OpenDP

 

Thanks

Ananya

Navin Vembar

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Jul 20, 2020, 12:02:49 PM7/20/20
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Navin Vembar
Camber Systems, CTO
Interests: Differential Privacy and Human Mobility




Navin Vembar

CTO/Co-Founder


P.  (202) 286-5888

E.  na...@cambersystems.com

cambersystems.com





Bogdan Cebere

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Jul 20, 2020, 12:19:10 PM7/20/20
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Hello everybody,

Name: Bogdan Cebere
Organizations: Bitdefender, OpenMined
Interests: differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, network security.

Nice to meet you all, I'd love to contribute to the project..

Bogdan

Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah

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Jul 20, 2020, 12:28:26 PM7/20/20
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Hi all! 

Name: Fatemeh Mireshghallah 
Organizations: UC San Diego, Microsoft Research AI, OpenMined
Interests: Differential Privacy, Inferential Privacy and Information Theoretical Privacy. 

Super excited to be a part of the community :) 

Best regards, 
Fatemeh 

cwaites10

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Jul 20, 2020, 12:33:01 PM7/20/20
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Hi everyone!

Name: Chris Waites
Organization: Stanford University
Interests: Machine Learning, Differential Privacy

Excited for the future of this project.

-- Chris

Margaret Levenstein

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Jul 20, 2020, 12:40:03 PM7/20/20
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Hi all. It's fun to see these.

Name: Margaret (Maggie) Levenstein
Organization: University of Michigan/ Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Interests: Data access, data quality, evidence-based policy making

Klein, Brandon Thorin

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Jul 20, 2020, 12:57:46 PM7/20/20
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# Some classic tech jovialness for the group (:

 

myHello = {

  "1_greeting:" : "Hello OpenDP World!"

  , "2_name:" : "Brandon T. Klein"

  , "3_organization:" : "Sandia National Laboratories"

  , "4_interests:" : "High-assurance computing, HPC, ML/AI, Programming Languages, SDX, cloud computing"

  , "5_closing:" : "Nice to virtually meet everyone! Look forward to future collaboration!"

}

 

for x, y in sorted(myHello.items()):

  print x, y

 

 

 

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Date: Monday, July 20, 2020 at 9:49 AM
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Anna

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Jul 20, 2020, 1:06:09 PM7/20/20
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Hi, everyone!

Name: Anna Pechenina
Organization: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Interests: Evidence-based policy making and information literacy and access
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/g.harvard.edu/d/msgid/opendp-community/CAEXQ8VoyV-tyrtS_o1aJJsNz%2BFbVO%3DwgJmAFQSxNOfhKoXB9tA%40mail.gmail.com.


Ruobin Gong

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Jul 20, 2020, 1:53:07 PM7/20/20
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Hi all,

Name: Ruobin (Robin) Gong
Organization: Rutgers University
Interests: Statistical methodology and inference with differentially private releases

I look forward to taking part in this exciting conversation!

- Robin


Travis Dick

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Jul 20, 2020, 1:54:12 PM7/20/20
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Hi everyone,

Name: Travis Dick
Organization: UPenn
Interests: Machine Learning, Differential Privacy, Fairness

wanglun

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Jul 20, 2020, 2:20:18 PM7/20/20
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Hi everyone,

Name: Lun Wang
Organization: UC Berkeley
Interests: Machine Learning, Differential Privacy, Cryptography

Yu-Xiang Wang

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Jul 20, 2020, 2:20:26 PM7/20/20
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Hi to all,

Name: Yu-Xiang Wang
Organization: UC Santa Barbara
Interests:  Differential privacy, Reinforcement Learning, Adaptive / Nonstationary Online Learning from the lens of statistics and optimization.

Our recent work on DP focuses on constant-tight DP accounting / calibration using numerical computation and flexible data-dependent methods. 
See also an open source project: autodp  https://github.com/yuxiangw/autodp

I’m glad to be part of the OpenDP community!

Yu-Xiang

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Computer Science Department
UC Santa Barbara
yuxi...@cs.ucsb.edu
Homepage: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~yuxiangw/




Bernie Boscoe

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Jul 20, 2020, 2:21:23 PM7/20/20
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Hello,
Name: Bernie Boscoe
Organization: UCLA
Interests: Machine learning, differential privacy

Bierer, Barbara E.,M.D.

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Jul 20, 2020, 2:56:57 PM7/20/20
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Well, if everyone is doing it:

 

Name: Barbara Bierer MD

Organization: Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Interests: Data sharing, privacy, confidentiality, human participant protections, public health

 

A bit of a horse of a different color…

 

From: wanglun <wan...@berkeley.edu>


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Subject: Re: Introductions

 

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Krishnaram Kenthapadi

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Jul 20, 2020, 2:57:00 PM7/20/20
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Excited to be part of the OpenDP community!

Name: Krishnaram Kenthapadi

Organization: Amazon AWS AI

Interests: Privacy, fairness, and explainability in ML

Cheers,
Krishnaram


Xi He

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Jul 20, 2020, 2:57:03 PM7/20/20
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Hi to all,


Name: Xi He

Organization: University of Waterloo

Interests: Differential privacy; Database


Look forward to being part of the OpenDP community!

Best Regards,

Xi




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Borja Rodríguez Gálvez

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Jul 20, 2020, 3:03:23 PM7/20/20
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Dear all,


Name: Borja Rodríguez Gálvez

Organization: KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Interests: (Statistical and Computational) Learning Theory, Differential Privacy, and Information Theory


I am looking forward to see how far this project gets!


Sincerely,

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/g.harvard.edu/d/msgid/opendp-community/76b1d4032c3a41d9815aa354dbfda418%40uwaterloo.ca.
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Doctoral Student

KTH Royal Institute of Technology
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Intelligent Systems
Division of Information Science and Engineering

Malvinas vägen 10, office 411, 11428 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +34 648834453
bor...@kth.se www.kth.se

Aggarwal, Abhinav

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Jul 20, 2020, 3:03:23 PM7/20/20
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Excited to be part of the OpenDP community!

 

Name: Abhinav Aggarwal

 

Organization: Amazon Alexa

 

Interests: Privacy its connections to hypothesis testing, Novel privacy attacks on ML

 

Thanks

Abhi

 

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Date: Monday, July 20, 2020 at 11:57
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Ethan Cowan

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Jul 20, 2020, 3:32:32 PM7/20/20
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Hi Everyone!

Name: Ethan Cowan

Organization: Harvard

Interests: Fairness, Tech Ethics, Privacy, Machine Learning

Anupam Mediratta

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Jul 20, 2020, 3:32:37 PM7/20/20
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Hello,

Excited to be part of the community.

Name: Anupam Mediratta

Organization: Univ of Edinburgh, Openmined

Interests: Federated Learning, Tradeoff of Robustness and Privacy, Targeted attacks in Machine Learning.



Sewards, Shannon

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Jul 20, 2020, 4:09:06 PM7/20/20
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Hi All - Excited to be part of this community!

 

Name: Shannon Sewards

Organization: Harvard University Area Institutional Review Board (IRB)

Interests: Research ethics, finding regulatory flexibility, large data and biospecimen repositories

 

Navin Vembar

danah boyd

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Jul 20, 2020, 4:11:10 PM7/20/20
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::wave::

Name: danah boyd
Organizations: Microsoft Research, Data & Society
Interests: Census, data justice, sociotechnical security, adversarial data manipulation (+ differential privacy of course)

Michael Kearns

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Jul 20, 2020, 4:39:31 PM7/20/20
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Greetings all:

Michael Kearns
University of Pennsylvania; Amazon Scholar
Machine Learning, Algorithmic Fairness, Differential Privacy, Algorithmic Game Theory
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Christine Task

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Jul 20, 2020, 4:57:01 PM7/20/20
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Hey all, 

Name: Christine Task
Organizations:  Knexus Research Corporation (and, as a contractor--NIST, US Census Bureau) 
Interests: Synthetic data (with differential privacy and without), synthetic data quality evaluation, noise-resistant data analytics, social network analysis... 
....and the NIST Differential Privacy Challenges (details for 2020 out soon!)

--Christine 


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Carlos Maltzahn

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Jul 20, 2020, 5:14:18 PM7/20/20
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Hello,

Name: Carlos Maltzahn
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz, Center for Research in Open Source Software (cross.ucsc.edu)
Interests: Programmable storage systems, big data storage & processing, scalable data management, distributed system performance management, and practical reproducible evaluation of computer systems.

I’m part of the OpenDP advisory board where I share my experience in founding and running CROSS.

Best,
Carlos


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University of California, Santa Cruz
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Michael Hay

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Jul 20, 2020, 5:46:51 PM7/20/20
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Hi, everyone.

Name: Michael Hay
Organizations: Tumult Labs & Colgate University (also a member of the OpenDP ad hoc design committee)
Interests: databases, fairness, privacy

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Feyisetan, Oluwaseyi

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Jul 20, 2020, 5:46:53 PM7/20/20
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Hello all,

 

Name: Oluwaseyi Feyisetan

Organization: Amazon

Interests: Privacy and Natural Language Processing

 

Kind regards,

Seyi

https://sites.google.com/view/privatenlp/

 

 

 

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david...@wearedata.uk

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Jul 20, 2020, 6:27:44 PM7/20/20
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Hi all,

Excited to be part of the OpenDP community!!
Name: Davide Calvi
Organisation: MyData, ODI, WeAreData, CCI

Interests: data privacy, interoperability, secure data storage, ML, Deep-learning, big data analysis and geospatial analysis and verified identity

Nice to meet you all and contribute to the project.

Davide

Benjamin Rubinstein

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Jul 20, 2020, 9:41:20 PM7/20/20
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Hi all,

Name: Ben Rubinstein
Organizations: University of Melbourne, Australia
Interests: Machine Learning, Data Privacy


Thanks for organising!


- Ben


RAAB Gillian

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Jul 21, 2020, 7:28:51 AM7/21/20
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Interests: SDP synthetic data, utility measures

Gillian M Raab

Research Fellow

Administrative Data Research Centre - Scotland

Edinburgh

+44 7748 678 551

Home page : https://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/graab



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Rolando Rodriguez (CENSUS/CED FED)

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Jul 21, 2020, 1:38:54 PM7/21/20
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Howdy,

Name: Rolando Rodríguez
Organization: U.S. Census Bureau
Interests: Privacy in demographic surveys, missing data, synthetic data

________________________

Rolando A. Rodríguez, Group Chief

Research and Applications

Disclosure Avoidance

Center for Enterprise Dissemination

U.S. Census Bureau

O: 301-763-1816 | M: 202-893-5016

census.gov  | @uscensusbureau
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Nathan Freitas

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Jul 21, 2020, 1:39:23 PM7/21/20
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Name: Nathan Freitas
Organization(s): Guardian Project, Tor Project, Berkman-Klein Center, Clean Insights Privacy Preserving Measurement (https://cleaninsights.org)
Interests: Mobile Privacy + Security, Human Rights / Humanitarian / Civil Rights applications "Big Data for Good"

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Naushard Cader

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Jul 21, 2020, 7:33:56 PM7/21/20
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Name: Naushard Cader
Organization: DCG, HAFMA, Just Markets, 
Interests: Ethics, Data Privacy, AI, Public Policy



Naushard Cader, FCA, CIA, MPA


Bowen, Claire

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Jul 22, 2020, 9:55:48 AM7/22/20
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Name: Claire McKay Bowen
Organization: Urban Institute
Interests: statistical disclosure limitation, synthetic data, differential privacy, utility metrics, statistical computing, scientific communication

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Claire McKay Bowen, PhD
Lead Data Scientist, Privacy and Data Security
@ClaireMKBowen

U R B A N   I N S T I T U T E
Technology and Data Science


From: Naushard Cader <Naushar...@post.harvard.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 12:05 PM
To: Nathan Freitas <nathan...@gmail.com>
Cc: RAAB Gillian <Gillia...@ed.ac.uk>; opendp-community <opendp-c...@g.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: Introductions
 

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Jonathan Ullman

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Jul 22, 2020, 1:59:12 PM7/22/20
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Name: Jon Ullman
Organization: Northeastern University
Interests: Differential privacy, machine learning, statistics

Andres Barrientos

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Jul 22, 2020, 5:38:23 PM7/22/20
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Name: Andres Felipe Barrientos
Organization: Florida State University
Interests: Differentially private statistical inference

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Andres Felipe Barrientos
Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
Florida State University



From: Jonathan Ullman <jul...@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 1:48 PM
To: Bowen, Claire <CBo...@urban.org>
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Runchao Jiang

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Jul 24, 2020, 9:34:07 AM7/24/20
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Name: Runchao Jiang

Organization: Facebook, Inc.

Interests: Statistics inference on privacy protected data, Estimating Re-identification risk, Privacy safe textual data release

Vinay G

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Jul 24, 2020, 12:40:39 PM7/24/20
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Hi All,

 

Great to be part of the community

 

Name: Vinay Rao

Organization: Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

Interests: Differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, Quantum AI

Adam Groce

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Jul 24, 2020, 12:40:45 PM7/24/20
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Name: Adam Groce

Organization: Reed College

Interests: Inference, hypothesis tests, and other practical statistics for small databases, cryptography

Damien Desfontaines

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Jul 24, 2020, 12:53:38 PM7/24/20
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Hi everyone!

Name: Damien Desfontaines

Organization: Google / ETH Zürich

Interests: Making DP easier to understand and deploy, finishing my PhD thesis


On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 09:24:29AM -0700, Adam Groce wrote:
> Name: Adam Groce
>
> Organization: Reed College
>
> Interests: Inference, hypothesis tests, and other practical statistics for
> small databases, cryptography
>
> On Friday, July 24, 2020 at 6:34:07 AM UTC-7 runchaojiang wrote:
>
> > Name: Runchao Jiang
> >
> > Organization: Facebook, Inc.
> >
> > Interests: Statistics inference on privacy protected data, Estimating
> > Re-identification risk, Privacy safe textual data release
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *From: *'Andres Barrientos' via opendp-community <
> > opendp-c...@g.harvard.edu>
> > *Reply-To: *Andres Barrientos <abarr...@fsu.edu>
> > *Date: *Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 2:38 PM
> > *To: *opendp-community <opendp-c...@g.harvard.edu>
> > *Subject: *Re: Introductions
> >
> >
> >
> > Name: Andres Felipe Barrientos
> >
> > Organization: Florida State University
> >
> > Interests: Differentially private statistical inference
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------
> > Andres Felipe Barrientos
> > Assistant Professor
> > Department of Statistics
> > Florida State University
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > *From:* Jonathan Ullman <jul...@gmail.com>
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 22, 2020 1:48 PM
> > *To:* Bowen, Claire <CBo...@urban.org>
> > *Cc:* Digest recipients <opendp-c...@g.harvard.edu>
> > *Subject:* Re: Introductions
> >
> >
> >
> > Name: Jon Ullman
> >
> > Organization: Northeastern University
> >
> > Interests: Differential privacy, machine learning, statistics
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 9:55 AM Bowen, Claire <CBo...@urban.org> wrote:
> >
> > *Name:* Claire McKay Bowen
> >
> > *Organization:* Urban Institute
> >
> > *Interests:* statistical disclosure limitation, synthetic data,
> > differential privacy, utility metrics, statistical computing, scientific
> > communication
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> >
> > Claire McKay Bowen, PhD
> >
> > Lead Data Scientist, Privacy and Data Security
> >
> > @ClaireMKBowen
> >
> > www.clairemckaybowen.com
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> >
> >
> >
> > *U R B A N **I N S T I T U T E*
> >
> > *Technology and Data Science*
> >
> > *www.urban.org
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> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > *From:* Naushard Cader <Naushar...@post.harvard.edu>
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 21, 2020 12:05 PM
> > *To:* Nathan Freitas <nathan...@gmail.com>
> > *Cc:* RAAB Gillian <Gillia...@ed.ac.uk>; opendp-community <
> > opendp-c...@g.harvard.edu>
> > *Subject:* Re: Introductions
> >
> >
> >
> > [EXTERNAL]
> >
> >
> >
> > Name: Naushard Cader
> >
> > Organization: DCG, HAFMA, Just Markets,
> >
> > Interests: Ethics, Data Privacy, AI, Public Policy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Naushard Cader, FCA, CIA, MPA
> >
> > e-mail:naushar...@post.harvard.edu
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 1:39 PM Nathan Freitas <nathan...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Name: Nathan Freitas
> >
> > Organization(s): Guardian Project, Tor Project, Berkman-Klein Center,
> > Clean Insights Privacy Preserving Measurement (https://cleaninsights.org
> > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/cleaninsights.org__;!!PhOWcWs!ni0hINq6ohs3hx5bPA9O00hhhDLDcwmNkY-R1sJrdNdNA5Sa8ikuH2RBlowWxND3Kg$>
> > )
> >
> > Interests: Mobile Privacy + Security, Human Rights / Humanitarian / Civil
> > Rights applications "Big Data for Good"
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 7:28 AM RAAB Gillian <Gillia...@ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Interests: SDP synthetic data, utility measures
> >
> >
> >
> > Gillian M Raab
> >
> > Research Fellow
> >
> > Administrative Data Research Centre - Scotland
> >
> > Edinburgh
> >
> > +44 7748 678 551 <+44%207748%20678551>
> >
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Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

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Jul 26, 2020, 9:46:16 PM7/26/20
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Hi!

Name: Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye
Organization: Imperial College/Computational Privacy Group
Interests: Attacks on privacy-preserving systems/algorithms/protocols,
DP for mobility data, Anonymization standards

Yann Dupis

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Hi everyone!

Name: Yann Dupis
Organization: Cape Privacy
Interests: Machine Learning, Differential Privacy, Secure Computation

kriti...@gmail.com

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Hello everyone :) 

Name: Kritika Prakash
Organizations: Differential Privacy Research Team Lead at OpenMined, Research Assistant at Machine Learning Lab, IIIT Hyderabad
Interests: Differential Privacy, Deep Learning, Game Theory, Reinforcement Learning

Glad to meet you all and be a part of this community :) 

On Friday, 5 June 2020 01:10:06 UTC+5:30, hhaider4 wrote:
Good to be here. 😊

How about an Introduction Thread? 🙂

Name: Ali Haider Bangash
Organization(s): SCM, STMU; CoronaWhy; CLAIRE; OpenDP 😊
Interests: NLP, Computer Vision

Slavkovic, Aleksandra B

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Aug 13, 2020, 10:06:51 AM8/13/20
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Name: Aleksandra (Sesa) Slavkovic 
Organization: Penn State University 
Interests: Statistical inference with/without privacy, Differential Privacy, Statistical Disclosure Limitation, Synthetic data, Data Utility 

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Aleksandra (Sesa) Slavkovic, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Statistics and Public Health Sciences 
Associate Dean for Graduate Education, Eberly College of Science
421A Thomas Building
The Pennsylvania State University
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Zeyu Ding

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Name: Zeyu Ding
Organization: Penn State University
Interests: Differential Privacy, machine learning, software security, formal verification

Glad to be part of the community :)

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