Carnegie Mellon University

Current Topics in Privacy Seminar

The Current Topics in Privacy Seminar is a three-credit course (17-702) taught in the Fall and Spring semesters. Members of the university community are invited to participate in the seminar even if they are not enrolled in the course. In this seminar course students will discuss recent papers and current public policy issues related to privacy. Privacy professionals from industry, government, and non-profits will deliver several guest lectures each semester. 

Members of the CMU community interested in receiving notifications about the seminars each week should contact the course instructor to request to be added to the email list. 

Instructor: Sarah Scheffler

Time and location: Tuesdays, 12:30-1:50 PM.  All seminars will be held in Hamburg Hall, 1002 and will be available via Zoom

Fall 2024 Privacy Seminars are Co-Sponsored by the Carnegie Bosch Institute

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September 3rd
Privacy Engineering Summer Internship/Research Presentations
Week 1
Jingxin Shi, Limin Ge, Aman Priyanshu, Suriya Ayyamperumal
September 10th
Privacy Engineering Summer Internship/Research Presentations
Week 2
Ibrahim Chhaya, Zuofei Hong, Yash Maurya
September 17th
Jake Ottenwaelder
Integrative Privacy
Holistic Approach to Privacy Engineering
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September 24th
Allison Bishop
Proof
How the Stock Market is a Privacy Problem
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October 1st
Joshua Snoke
Rand
But Can You Use It? Design Recommendations for Differentially Private Interactive Systems for Accessing Federal Administrative Data
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October 8th
Priyanka Nanayakkara
Harvard
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October 15th
No Session
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October 22nd
Yun William Yu
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October 29th
Damien Desfontaines
Tumult Labs
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November 5th
No Session
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November 12th
To Be Announced
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November 19th
Christine Task
Knexus Research 
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Novemeber 26th
To Be Announced
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December 3rd
Capstone Presentations
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December 10th
No Session
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