Adam Smith | Boston University
Adam Smith is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Boston University.
His research interests lie in data privacy and cryptography, and their connections to machine learning, statistics, information theory, and quantum computing. He obtained his Ph.D. from MIT in 2004 and has held visiting positions at the Weizmann Institute of Science, UCLA, and Harvard. He previously was a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State.
He received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2009; a 2016 Theory of Cryptography Test of Time award; the 2019 Eurocrypt Test of Time award; and the 2017 Gödel Prize.
Jonathan Ullman | Northeastern University
Jonathan Ullman is an associate professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.
Ullman’s research centers on the foundations of privacy for machine learning and statistics, namely differential privacy and its surprising interplay with topics such as statistical validity, robustness, cryptography, and fairness. His background is in theoretical computer science, but his work spans algorithms, cryptography, machine learning, statistics, and security. His area of teaching includes algorithms and privacy for machine learning, and he is a member of the Theory Group, the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, and the Institute for Experiential AI.
Ullman has been recognized with an NSF CAREER award and the Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teacher Award.
Ravi Kumar | Google
Ravi Kumar is a Principal Research Scientist and Manager of the Discrete Algorithms group; Google Research, Mountain View.
Kumar obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University and has previously worked at IBM Almaden and Yahoo! Research. His broad interests include algorithms for massive data, ML/privacy, and the theory of computation. Kumar lives and works in the beautiful SF Bay area.
Kumar has been recognized with various awards, including the IBM awards for Outstanding Innovation ’02; Research Division ’02; Pat Goldberg Memorial ’01; Pat Goldberg Memorial ’00; as well as the Yahoo! award for Master Inventor ’11.