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

Saikat Guha

Vidhyashankar Venkataraman

Vivek Vishnumurthy

Xinyang (Joy) Zhang

Manpreet Singh

Past Postdocs

Stevens Le Blond

Ruichuan Chen

Bin Cheng

Saikat Guha

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