Workshop on Differential Privacy and Statistical Data Analysis
Description
How can we obtain scientic benefits from statistical analysis of sensitive data, without compromising the privacy of the individuals who contribute their data? The past decade has seen rapid progress on this question due to the emergence of a mathematically rigorous privacy framework known as differential privacy. Informally, differential privacy provides a robust individual privacy guarantee, ensuring that no adversary, regardless of their capabilities, can learn much more about an individual user than they could have learned had that user's data never been collected.
After a decade of intense academic research demonstrating that many statistical tasks are compatible with differential privacy, it is now seeing wide adoption by a variety of organizations, including large companies like Google, Apple, and Uber. Most notably, the U.S. Census Bureau has chosen to adopt differential privacy for public data releases derived from its 2020 Census, which provides data for countless statistical purposes. Although much of the motivation for differential privacy comes from Statistics, and many of the intended users are statisticians, the majority of differential privacy research has been conducted by computer scientists. Despite shared goals, the two communities differ profoundly in how they formulate problems, the applications they focus on, and the techniques they bring to bear. Given the recent wave of deployments of differential privacy for statistical analyses, this workshop is being organized in hopes of bridging the gap between these two communities. This workshop will bring together leading statisticians and computer scientists working on differential privacy to learn about the state-of-the-art in each other's area, transfer knowledge between communities, and to discuss the most important directions for a more cohesive future research agenda.
Schedule
09:00 to 09:30 |
Jeremy Seeman, The Pennsylvania State University |
09:30 to 10:00 |
Adam Groce, Reed College |
10:00 to 10:30 |
Ruobin Gong, Rutgers University |
10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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11:00 to 11:30 |
Kelly Ramsay, York University |
11:30 to 12:00 |
Ira Globus-Harris, University of Pennsylvania |
12:00 to 12:10 |
Group Photos
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12:10 to 13:30 |
Lunch
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13:30 to 15:00 |
Andres Felipe Barrientos, Florida State University, Argyris Mouzakis, University of Waterloo, Marco Avella Medina, Columbia University, Maryam Aliakbarpour, BU/Northeastern, Alex Bie, University of Waterloo, Anne-Sophie Charest, Université Laval |
15:00 to 17:00 |
Ice Breaker Social Event / Coffee Break
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09:00 to 10:00 |
Samuel Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
10:00 to 10:30 |
Mahbod Majid, University of Waterloo |
10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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11:00 to 11:30 |
Adam Smith, Boston University Location:Online |
11:30 to 12:00 |
Eliad Tsfadia, Tel Aviv University and Google |
12:00 to 13:30 |
Lunch
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13:30 to 15:00 |
Breakout Groups
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15:00 to 15:30 |
Coffee Break
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15:30 to 17:00 |
Roy Rinberg, Columbia University, Ryan Cumings, US Census Bureau, Gavin Brown, Boston University, Carlos Soto, The Pennsylvania State University, Shubhankar Mohapatra, University of Waterloo, Sushant Agarwal, University of Waterloo |
09:00 to 09:45 |
John Abowd, US Census Bureau |
09:45 to 10:30 |
Philip Leclerc, US Census Bureau |
10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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11:00 to 11:30 |
Salil Vadhan, Harvard University |
11:30 to 12:00 |
Jennifer Gillenwater, Google Research |
12:00 to 13:30 |
Lunch
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13:30 to 17:00 |
Team-Building Event (Off-Site)
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09:00 to 09:30 |
Jingchen (Monika) Hu, Vassar College Location:Online |
09:30 to 10:00 |
Ryan Rogers, LinkedIn, Rina Friedberg, LinkedIn |
10:00 to 10:30 |
Policy Impacts of Statistical Uncertainty and Privacy
Steven Wu, Carnegie Mellon University |
10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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11:00 to 11:30 |
Marika Swanberg, Boston University |
11:30 to 12:00 |
Shahab Asoodeh, McMaster University |
12:00 to 13:30 |
Lunch
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13:30 to 15:00 |
Breakout Groups
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15:00 to 15:30 |
Coffee Break
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15:30 to 17:00 |
Poster Session
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09:00 to 09:30 |
Hassan Ashtiani, McMaster University |
09:30 to 10:00 |
Mark Bun, Boston University |
10:00 to 10:30 |
Alireza Fallah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Location:Online |
10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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11:00 to 11:30 |
Satchit Sivakumar, Boston University |
11:30 to 12:00 |
Gautam Kamath, University of Waterloo |
12:00 to 13:30 |
Lunch
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13:30 to 15:00 |
Collaboration Time
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15:00 to 15:30 |
Coffee Break
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15:30 to 17:00 |
Collaboration Time
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