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ISYE/CS 8803 Foundations of Data Privacy

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Tentative class schedule.  Check back frequently for updates.

Date Topic Reading Assignment
21-Aug  Intro to privacy, administrivia Ch 1, 2
23-Aug  Laplace mech Ch 3.3 HW 1 out
28-Aug  Exponential mech Ch 3.4
30-Aug  Randomized response Ch 3.2
4-Sep Labor Day (no class)
6-Sep  Sparse Vector 1 Ch 3.5, 3.6 HW 1 due /
HW 2 out
11-Sep Hurricane (no class)
13-Sep  Sparse Vector 2
18-Sep  Reuable Holdout paper
20-Sep  SmallDB 1 Ch 4.1 HW 2 due (Fri)
25-Sep  SmallDB 2  Ch 4.2  HW 3 out
27-Sep  Generalization for Adaptive Analysis  paper
2-Oct  Private Multiplicative Weights 1
4-Oct  Private Multiplicative Weights 2 HW 3 due (Fri)
9-Oct Fall Student Recess (no class)
11-Oct  Crash course on game theory Proposal due (Fri)
16-Oct  Guest lecture: Sara Krehbiel
18-Oct  Joint differential privacy and mechanism design Proposals returned
23-Oct INFORMS (no class) Work on project
25-Oct Guest lecture: Jake Abernethy Work on project
30-Oct TPDP (no class) Work on project
1-Nov  Privately solving LPs
6-Nov  Subsample and aggregate  Ch 7.1
8-Nov  Propose-Test-Release  Ch 7.2 Mid-project update due
13-Nov  Differentially private ERM  paper
15-Nov  DP in practice: RAPPOR  paper
20-Nov Locally private heavy hitters
22-Nov Thanksgiving Break (no class)
27-Nov  Student presentations
29-Nov  Student presentations
4-Dec  Beyond differential privacy
13-Dec Final exam period (no class)  Project due

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Rachel Cummings
Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Affiliate, Department of Computer Science
Co-chair of Cybersecurity Research Center, Data Science Institute
Columbia University
rac2239 [at] columbia [dot] edu
Office: Mudd 535E

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