BARC talk by Boel Nelson

Wednesday, 8 December 2021, Boel Nelson, Postdoc at Aarhus University, will give a talk on "Examining the Balancing Act of Differential Privacy".

Title:
Examining the Balancing Act of Differential Privacy

Abstract:
Differential privacy is emerging as the gold standard for privacy. Still, in real settings, practitioners struggle to achieve both strong privacy and high accuracy simultaneously. As a consequence, real-world implementations of differential privacy often sacrifice strong privacy.  So, why is it so hard to achieve meaningful differential privacy in practice?In this talk I will give a brief introduction to differential privacy, and then highlight challenges with achieving high accuracy. We will see that context matters when reasoning about accuracy. Accordingly, I will also elaborate on how context plays a role in designing accurate differentially private algorithms.

Bio:
Boel Nelson is a postdoc at Aarhus University. Her research interests include privacy enhancing technologies, data privacy, and real-world applications of security and privacy techniques.
Boel graduated with a PhD (topic: differential privacy) from Chalmers University of Technology in 2021. She holds a MSc in Computer Science and Engineering, and a BSc in Software Engineering, also from Chalmers University of Technology.