Speaker:Amrita Roy Chowdhury

Title

Data Privacy in the Decentralized Era

Abstract

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About Amrita Roy Chowdhury

Amrita Roy Chowdhury is a CRA/CCC CIFellow at University of California-San Diego, working with Prof. Kamalika Chaudhuri. She graduated with her PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison and was advised by Prof. Somesh Jha. She completed her Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur where she was awarded the President of India Gold Medal. Her work explores the synergy between differential privacy and cryptography through novel algorithms that expose the rich interconnections between the two areas in theory and practice. She has been recognized as a Rising Star in EECS in 2020 and 2021 and a Facebook Fellowship finalist in 2021. She has also been selected as a UChicago Rising Star in Data Science, 2021.