Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the IEEE Sweden VT/COM/IT Chapter in collaboration with Lund University we would like to invite you to the following IEEE ITSoc Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Si-Hyeon, KAIST, South Korea.

Title: Privacy-Preserving Data Utilization with Differential Privacy 

Time: 15:15-16:30 CET March 11, 2025.

Location: Lund University, LTH, E Building, Klas Anshelms väg 10, Room E:2311, Lund, Sweden

Local host: Dr. Michael Lentmaier, michael.lentmaier@eit.lth.se

Abstract: 

In today's world, our diverse information is collected through various channels and utilized for a range of purposes, including statistical inference and the development of machine learning models. However, privacy threats continue to emerge, revealing that sensitive personal information can be inferred from statistics or machine learning models. In this tutorial, we introduce differential privacy, a representative privacy protection metric, and explore its applications in machine learning and statistical inference. Furthermore, focusing on distribution estimation, a fundamental problem in statistical inference, we will discuss how classical results from combinatorics can be leveraged to develop communication-efficient differential privacy techniques.

 

Si-Hyeon Lee received the B.S. (summa cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, in 2007 and 2013, respectively. She is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, from 2014 to 2016, and an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea, from 2017 to 2020. Her research interests include information theory, wireless communications, statistical inference, and machine learning. She is currently an IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer (2024-2025). 

Welcome!

Best regards,
Michael Lentmaier, Chair VT/COM/IT Sweden Chapter