Congrats to Sundar -- his paper "To Shuffle or not to Shuffle: Auditing DP-SGD with Shuffling" was just accepted to #NDSS2026! Only 21 out of 950 straight accepts this round 😳 Joint work with Borja Balle, Jamie Hayes, & @emilianodc.com Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2411.10614

📣 Upcoming CCS'25 paper 📣 The Importance of Being Discrete: Measuring the Impact of Discretization in End-to-End Differentially Private Synthetic Data We investigate the critical yet overlooked role of discretization in end-to-end differentially private (DP) tabular synthetic data generation

Conditional congrats to Georgi and Sundar - their paper on Discretization in DP Synthetic Data was accepted with shepherding to CCS’25. Very important work on an overlooked aspect of end-to-end DP pipelines. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2504.06923 -- feedback welcome!

Huge congrats to @spalab.cs.ucr.edu's Georgi Ganev for receiving the Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE S&P for his work "The Inadequacy of Similarity-based Privacy Metrics: Privacy Attacks against “Truly Anonymous” Synthetic Datasets." Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2312.051...

Happy to announce that Georgi's paper, “The Inadequacy of Similarity-based Privacy Metrics: Privacy Attacks against “Truly Anonymous” Synthetic Datasets,” has been accepted to IEEE Security & Privacy. Pre-print: arxiv.org/pdf/2312.05114

I’m proverbially humbled and manifestly honored by the ACM’s recognition as Distinguished Member. This is obviously an achievement that would have never been possible without my amazing students and collaborators or the support and mentorship of so many people. www.acm.org/media-center...