Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning

People

Faculty

• Dr. Martine De Cock, homepage, mdecock@uw.edu

PhD Students

• Daniil Filienko, homepage, daniilf@uw.edu
• Steven Golob, homepage, golobs@uw.edu
• Sikha Pentyala, homepage, sikha@uw.edu
• Geetha Sitaraman, sgeetha@uw.edu

Highlights

• Our paper on Privacy Vulnerabilities in Marginals-based Synthetic Data is accepted for SaTML2025.
• Steven Golob's master thesis on privacy vulnerabilities in generative AI is recognized with awards:
  • 2024-25 Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS) and ProQuest winner for Distinguished Master's Thesis in STEM Disciplines
  • UW Graduate School's 2024 Distinguished Thesis Award in the category Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering
• We presented our work on "Securely Generating Synthetic Genomic Data from Distributed Data Silos" at the 11th International Workshop on Genome Privacy and Security (GenoPri'24) on Nov 9, 2024.
• Daniil Filienko has been awarded a UW Graduate Student Equity & Excellence (GSEE) Tuition Award for 2024-2025.
  
• The NAIRR Pilot awarded us substantial computational resources for our research on privacy-preserving synthetic data generation, May 6, 2024.
  • Article on UW Tacoma website, Sep 30, 2024
    
• Our paper on synthetic data generation with MPC is accepted for ICML2024.
• Students and faculty from our group were recognized during the annual Dean's Award Ceremony of the School of Engineering and Technology on Apr 26, 2024:
  • Sikha Pentyala received the 2023-2024 Outstanding Student Leadership Award
  • Steven Golob received the 2023-2024 Outstanding Graduate Research Award
  • Masumi Yano received the 2023-2024 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award
  • Daniil Filienko and Caroline El Jazmi received the 2023-2024 Andrew and Julie Fry Innovation Award
  • Martine De Cock received the 2023-2024 Justice Equity Diversity Inclusion (JEDI) Faculty Award
• Daniil Filienko has been accorded an Honorable Mention in the 2024 NSF GRFP competition.
• Our paper on "Privacy-Preserving Membership Queries for Federated Anomaly Detection" is on the list of accepted papers for PETS2024, Issue 3.
• UW SET awarded Daniil Filienko, Steven Golob, and Sikha Pentyala a Carwein-Andrews Distinguished Fellowship for 2023-2024.
• Steven Golob received the best poster award at the Annual SET Research Showcase, March 1, 2024.
• Daniil Filienko and Steven Golob have been awarded a Graduate Merit Scholarship by the School of Engineering and Technology, Jan 2024.
• Steven Golob has been selected for an AIM-AHEAD Traineeship in Advanced Data Analysis using the All of Us Clinical Database, Jan 2024.
• Sikha Pentyala has been awarded a scholarship by the UPE International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines, Dec 2023.
• Our team "stevengolob" won 1st place in the SNAKE Challenge on membership attacks against synthetically generation data, Nov 2023.
  • Paper about the attack presented at the AAAI-24 Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence, 2024
• We are part of a new Responsible Health AI Lab (RHAIL) at UW Tacoma, selected for the first NIH supported AIM-AHEAD PAIR cohort (Oct 2023).
• Sikha Pentyala has been awarded a 2023 JP Morgan Chase Fellowship to support her PhD research on synthetic data generation.
• Our FLHuskies team is a winner of the Pushback to the Future competition, hosted by NASA:
  • News on the competition webpage about the finalists of the Pushback to the Future challenge, May 25, 2023
    
  • Article on UW Tacoma website, June 28, 2023
    
  • Paper at KDD2023 Undergraduate Research Consortium, Aug 2023
• Multiple students from our group were recognized during the annual Dean's Award Ceremony of the School of Engineering and Technology on Apr 27, 2023:
  • Steven Golob, Dean Kelley, and Sikha Pentyala received the 2022-2023 Outstanding Graduate Research Award
  • Steven Golob, Dean Kelley, and Sikha Pentyala received the 2022-2023 Andrew and Julie Fry Innovation Award
  • Sikha Pentyala received the 2022-2023 Justice Equity Diversity & Inclusion Student Award
  • Daniil Filienko, Kyler Robison, Trevor Tomlin, and Yudong Lin received the 2022-2023 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award
• We presented our work on a "Decentralized Information Marketplace Preserving Input and Output Privacy" at the 2nd Data Economy workshop (DEC23) at SIGMOD 2023.
• Our PPMLHuskies team is a winner of the 2023 U.S. PETs Prize Challenge!
  • White House press release about the announcement of the winners, March 31, 2023
  • 5 min video played at the Summit for Democracy on March 30, 2023
  • News on the competition webpage about the final winners of the U.S. PETs Prize Challenge, March 31, 2023
  • NSF news on the winners of the U.S.-U.K. PETs Prize Challenge, March 31, 2023
  • Article on UW Tacoma website, April 3, 2023
  • Code repository, Apr 20, 2023
• Our paper on Secure Multi-Party Computation for Personalized Human Activity Recognition has been accepted for publication in Neural Processing Letters, 2023.
• We have a paper on privacy-preserving fair item ranking at ECIR 2023.
• Our work was presented at various NeurIPS2022 workshops:
  • SyntheticData4ML workshop (paper on MPC for synthetic data generation from distributed data)
  • AFCP workshop on Algorithmic Fairness through the Lens of Causality and Privacy (paper on privacy-preserving group fairness in cross-device FL)
  • WiML workshop (paper on private and fair federated learning)
• UW SET awarded Sikha Pentyala a Carwein-Andrews Endowment award for 2022-2023.
• UW SET awarded Steven Golob the GSFEI Top Scholar Recruitment Fellowship and a Carwein-Andrews Endowment award for 2022-2023.
  Steven is also the recipient of an NSF CSGrad4US Graduate Fellowship.
• Dr. Martine De Cock participated in the Dagstuhl seminar on Privacy in Speech and Language Technology, Aug 21-26, 2022.
• Sikha Pentyala received the 2021-2022 SET Outstanding Graduate Research Award.
• Our paper "Privacy-Preserving Training of Tree Ensembles over Continuous Data" has been accepted for PoPETS2022
• Our paper "Fast Privacy-Preserving Text Classification based on Secure Multiparty Computation" will appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
• Our library for privacy-preserving fairness auditing "PrivFair" at the Third AAAI Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence (PPAI-22)
• First place for our team PPMLRobots in Track III of the iDASH2021 secure genome analysis competition
• "Engineering and Technology team wins iDASH2019 competition"
• A feature story about our privacy-preserving text classification work on UW Tacoma's website

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