Dan Roy I was an outsider when I started working in privacy. Two researchers I first contacted (Aaron Roth and Moritz) encouraged me a lot. They made me feel welcome. I still keep a copy of two of their emails on my desk :) I would not have continued in DP had not been for them.

there are surprisingly many open problems when it comes to theory/methods in causal inference check out this talk by Siva Balakrishnan for an excellent & comprehensive summary of the state of the art youtube.com/live/Mnum0Ox1f… stat.cmu.edu/~siva/

Our August digest features: -Neural Operators inventor and AAAI Fellow Prof. Anima Anandkumar -Differentially private learning with Gautam Kamath -Coverage of #IJCAI2024 (IJCAIconf) -Nikhil Chandak and Shashwat Goel on sequential decision making aihub.org/2024/08/29/aih…

BIG NEWS! I'll be moving to Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan in Fall 2025! I'm super excited about my new colleagues and my whole family is really looking forward to life in Ann Arbor. I'll really miss the friends I've made in my decade Northeastern U. Khoury College of Computer Sciences but ready for this new adventure.

📣 Great news as we start the fall term ... Ihab Ilyas has been named a Fellow of RSC! He has made significant contributions in ranking, ML for large-scale data linkage, and gen-AI systems for automatic data cleaning, as well as co-founding two start-ups. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/professor…

We’re excited to announce this year’s competitions for SaTML Conference! 🎉 Get ready for four fun challenges tackling prompt injection, data leakage, membership inference, and malware detection. satml.org/competitions/ Let’s dive in! 🧵1/5

I'm looking for more reviewers (especially in optimization theory) for Transactions on Machine Learning Research, please reach out with your email (you can send it to me in DM) if you're interested in becoming a reviewer! TMLR has the best system I know: 1. You don't get assigned more than 1 submission at a

Will be giving two talks in Milan over next few months: 1) Workshop in honor of Luca Trevisan in Bocconi on December 2, windowsontheory.org/2024/08/07/eve… 2) Plenary talk in ALT 2025 Feb 24-27, 2025

The Courant Institute is thrilled to welcome eleven new faculty members this year! The impressive group represents a wide range of backgrounds and research interests—read through their short bios and extend a warm welcome if you see them on campus: cims.nyu.edu/dynamic/news/1…

We’re happy to announce that Jonathan Ullman will be joining our faculty as an associate professor. ✨Welcome to CSE! Jonathan Ullman More about Jon: jonathan-ullman.github.io

When your advisor is hands on

The difference between theory CS and ML conferences.