Scholar
Rachel Cummings
Google Scholar ID: 2mYxmokAAAAJ
Columbia University
Citations & Impact
Citations
10,925
H-index
25
i10-index
38
Publications
20
Co-authors
46
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Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of NSF CAREER Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, DARPA Director’s Fellowship, Early Career Impact Award, Provost’s Teaching Award
- Best Paper Awards at DISC, CCS, and SaTML
- Co-authored open-source textbook 'Differential Privacy in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice' (2025), wrote Chapter 17 on the relationship between differential privacy and algorithmic fairness
- Multiple papers accepted to top venues including ICML, PETs, AISTATS, and FORC
- Awarded tenure in 2024
Research Experience
- Former faculty at Georgia Tech in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), with a courtesy appointment in the School of Computer Science
- Currently Associate Professor at Columbia University IEOR
- Managing Editor of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality
- Serves on ACM U.S. Technology Policy Council, IEEE Standards Association, and Future of Privacy Forum’s Advisory Board
- Member of the Independent Census Scientific Advisory Council; previously served on the Census Scientific Advisory Council
- Former Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology
Background
- Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) at Columbia University
- Courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer Science
- Co-chair of the Cybersecurity Research Center at the Data Science Institute
- Research interests broadly in differential privacy, drawing on interdisciplinary tools from machine learning, algorithm design, economics, optimization, statistics, HCI, usable security, and public policy
- Particularly interested in challenges and solutions in applying theoretical privacy-preserving data analysis tools in practice
Miscellany
- Hosted NYC Privacy Day at Columbia in Spring 2025
- PC Co-Chair of DEF CON Crypto and Privacy Village
- Featured in BEATCS with Sumegha Garg for organizing TCS+
- Published blog post on explaining privacy guarantees via CDT
- Co-authored Day One Project memo 'Increasing Responsible Data Sharing throughout Government'
