Foundations of Private and Fair Statistics

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Project Description

The topic is flexible and depends on student's background, previous experience and mathematical skill. Specifically, in the topic, students will explore basic statistical model or problems for different types of data in the differential privacy or fairness model. For statistical model , topics include component analysis, supervised learning, mixture model , et al. For data, topics include survival data, functional data, network analysis. Students will design new algorithms to solve these problems and provide theoretical guarantees on the utility-privacy or utility-fairness tradeoff. Moreover, they will implement these algorithms on some sensitive data such as healthcare and biomedical data.
Program - Statistics
Division - Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering
Field of Study - Machine Learning, Data Privacy, Statistics

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Researcher

Di Wang

Di Wang

Desired Project Deliverables

Students will learn basic techniques and terminologies in differential privacy, fairness and some topics in statistics. They will have the chance to implement the best-known algorithm for some specific problems. Hopefully, they could have some new results and publications after the project.

RECOMMENDED STUDENT ACADEMIC & RESEARCH BACKGROUND

Optimization
Optimization
Statistics
Statistics
Probability
Probability
Machine Learning
Machine Learning