Weekly Topics and Presenters (SP23 Stat 8750.01, Part I)

Time Presenter(s) Topic
19-Jan Meijia Shao Motivation, concepts, definitions, basic examples
26-Jan Fangyi Wang Randomized responses
2-Feb Zhizhen Zhao Laplace mechanism
9-Feb Xuerong Wang Post-processing, group privacy, composition
16-Feb Chenze Li Exponential mechanism
23-Feb Zhenbang Jiao Report noisy max
2-Mar Fangyi Wang Gaussian Differential Privacy (JRSS-B discussion paper)
9-Mar Yuan Zhang Gaussian Differential Privacy (JRSS-B discussion paper)

2023 Spring Statistical Learning Reading Group (Part I)

The first part of the reading group (8 meetings before spring break) will focus on the topic of differential privacy (DP).  Here are some materials for your reference (mostly “top-k” Google results).

Textbooks
Dwork & Roth book
Salil Vadhan tutorial
Websites
Marco Gaboardi course
Yu-Xiang Wang course
Wasserman slides
JH-SV course
AS-JU course

We will meet weekly in Enarson 258 on Thursdays, 11:30–12:25.

Students may register for course credit by enrolling in STAT 8750.01. If you are not officially enrolled but want to be added to the reading group email list, please contact Haozhen Yu at yu.2823@osu.edu.