Research Overview
My group researches privacy issues related to practical data anonymization. A long-standing problem is that of providing statistical or aggregate data about users without leaking information about individual users. Past strongly-anonymous systems, like K-anonymity and Differential Privacy, provide poor utility. As a result, most so-called “anonymous” analtyics is done over weakly anonymized data. In research partnership with Aircloak GmbH, we have developed Diffix, a practical data anonymization mechanism that provides strong anonymity, high utility, and easy configuration. Diffix is now being developed in the Open Diffix Project.
Current PhD Student Researchers
Current Postdocs
Past PhD Student Researchers
Reinhard Munz
Istemi Ekin Akkus
Alexey Reznichenko
Hitesh Ballani
Vidhyashankar Venkataraman
Xinyang (Joy) Zhang
Past Postdocs
Ruichuan Chen
Bin Cheng
Saikat Guha