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Associate prof. of computer science @colgateuniv, co-founder Tumult Labs. I study privacy and fairness, and have a background in databases and data mining.

Hamilton, NY
Joined May 2009
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The 2023 USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR '23) is soliciting proposals for talks and panels by May 2nd! See bit.ly/pepr23 for details. #PEPR23 will be held September 11-12 in Santa Clara, CA, USA.
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Michael Hay retweeted
We're 📢 hiring Scientist interns 📢 for the coming summer ☀️ If you're enrolled in a PhD program related to differential privacy, come work with us for a few months! We've got a ton of fun real-world science problems and a great team ✨ tumultlabs.recruitee.com/o/s…
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For the last few years, I have been working on the design and development of a library for differentially private analytics. I’m delighted that the library is now available open source. I hope you’ll check out Tumult Analytics. If you do, please let us know what you think!
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Colgate CS dept has 2 open tenure track positions! Pitch for fellow CogSci folks: “We encourage applications from candidates with cross-disciplinary expertise related to…Mind, Brain and Behavior Initiative…” Consider applying! Review begins on Oct 15 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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Michael Hay retweeted
Wondering whether differential privacy can solve your problem? 🤔 Good news: I just published a ✨ new blog post ✨ with a simple litmus test to determine whether it will likely work for you or not. Hope you find it useful! 😊 tmlt.io/research/is-differen…
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Another great blog post by my colleague at @TumultLabs.
If reading about technical stuff can help you think of something else for a bit: here's a new blog post for you 💚 This one explains Rényi differential privacy and zero-concentrated differential privacy with a simple intuition, and some friendly graphs 🙂 desfontain.es/privacy/renyi-…
Looking forward to PPAI 22! Lots of great presentations including *three* by my colleagues from @TumultLabs: 1) @TedOnPrivacy is giving an invited talk, 2) interns @YuchaoTao and @RyanMcK73650143 present their benchmark of synthetic data algos, and 3) a panel with @geromiklau.
Starting in less than 2 hours! 👇
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✨ New research ✨ led by @TumultLabs interns Yuchao Tao and @RyanMcK73650143, benchmarking differentially private synthetic data generation algorithms 📊 Follow along for a short thread explaining what these are, and the conclusions of the research 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2112.09238
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Michael Hay retweeted
Hey, we're thinking about creating a monthly newsletter about what we're doing here at @TumultLabs. Would any of y'all be interested in receiving it?
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Really looking forward to working with @TedOnPrivacy on our #differentialprivacy platform @TumultLabs.
I'm unreasonably excited to share some ✨ personal news ✨: I'm joining @TumultLabs, a startup focusing on making differential privacy usable, useful, and eventually ubiquitous 🥳 Here's why I'm excited to join them ⤵️ desfontain.es/privacy/joinin…
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It’s essential for #Census2020 data to be released in a way that protects the public from biased conclusions about the American population and protects everyone's private information, write @Harvard’s Cynthia Dwork, @ruthgreenwood, and @kinggary. trib.al/wH5bw0Y
Commerce secretary @GinaRaimondo defends the use of #differentialprivacy for the 2020 Decennial Census when asked if the Bureau is justified in using "funky math". We at @TumultLabs are proud to be helping @uscensusbureau in this effort. youtu.be/Mb872rPq9iY?t=2345
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Action packed indeed and what's more, the workshop will have (virtual) cookies! Thanks @acm_ccs!
Looks like an action packed workshop on Differential Privacy @ TPDP #ccs20 tpdp.journalprivacyconfident… If you are registered, it kicks off at 10am EST today!
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The call for papers is out for the sixth workshop on the Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy (TPDP) 2020. tpdp.journalprivacyconfident…
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And, yes, this is old news if you follow @thegautamkamath.
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A new conference on "Foundations of Responsible Computing" is happening June 1-2. Some interesting talks on privacy, fairness, etc. What's more, registration is free! responsiblecomputing.org/pro…
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Looking forward to participating in the OpenDP Community Meeting this W-F! Info here: opendp.io/
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We have a great program lined up for tomorrow's workshop on the Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy (TPDP) at @acm_ccs. Check it out: tpdp.cse.buffalo.edu/2019/
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Colleague Gerome Miklau @geromiklau presenting in the Differential Privacy Bootcamp for employees of federal statistical agencies, held at Bureau of Labor Statistics. Other presenters include Ashwin Machanavajjhala @machanavajjhala, Daniel Kifer, and myself. Bootcamp #2 of N.