Recipient of NSF CAREER award and Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teaching Award; PC co-chair for ALT 2026; Joined the editorial board of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality; Appointed to the Census Scientific Advisory Committee (CSAC); Published multiple papers on membership-inference attacks, private personalized learning, etc.
Research Experience
Associate Professor at Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University; Member of the Theory Group, Cryptography and Privacy Group, and Cybersecurity & Privacy Institute; Member of the Boston-Area Data Privacy Group.
Background
Research interests: Foundations of privacy for machine learning and statistics, particularly differential privacy and its interplay with other topics such as statistical validity, robustness, cryptography, and fairness. Background: Theoretical computer science, increasingly spanning machine learning, statistics, cryptography, and cybersecurity.
Miscellany
Planning to actively admit and recruit PhD students and postdocs for Fall 2026; Teaching CS 7800: Advanced Algorithms; Working with an amazing group of students and postdocs, some of whom have successfully graduated and taken up positions in other institutions.