5 Weekends to Privacy Engineering & AI Governance Expertise
Elevate your career with a Certificate in Privacy Engineering and AI Governance from CMU's top-ranked School of Computer Science.
The Rise of Privacy Engineering and AI Governance Professionals
We live in a data economy. Nearly every product, service or process we interact with collects and processes some data about us. This data goes on to feed machine learning algorithms designed to predict our tastes, habits, future behaviors or possible health ailments. Increasingly this data will also be consumed by AI agents designed to assist us with a variety of tasks.
Along with this increasing dependence on personal data, we have seen the emergence of stringent regulations designed to keep organizations that collect and process our data accountable. Regulations such as the GDPR, CCPA and EU AI Act come with steep penalties for organizations that fail to meet their requirements.
These developments have, in turn, created unprecedented demand for professionals capable of operating at the intersection of law and technology, leading to the emergence of Privacy Engineering and AI Governance as highly desirable careers with significant shortages today.
"I cannot recommend CMU's program highly enough. World class faculty, engrossing topics, and an opportunity to connect with other professionals working in the privacy space. You will walk away with actionable knowledge and deep new insights . Best bang for your buck spread across four very quick weekends."
A Hands-On Certificate Program for Professionals
The Carnegie Mellon University Certificate Program in Privacy Engineering and AI Governance builds directly on the content of the university's Master's Program and offers a condensed training experience tailored to the needs of working professionals. The certificate program is taught by the same faculty who teach in the full-time degree program.
Upon completing the intensive five-week program with coursework offered remotely over weekends, students will have gained a deep appreciation and practical knowledge of the many facets of privacy engineering. The program revolves around a combination of mini-tutorials, class discussions, and hands-on exercises designed to ensure that students develop practical knowledge of all key privacy engineering areas. In the process, they learn about legal and public policy considerations, fundamentals of information security, privacy-by-design concepts, methodologies for engineering privacy in software, usable privacy and security, privacy enhancing technologies, AI governance, as well as mathematical and logical foundations of privacy.
The program is available for individual enrollment and can also be offered to cohorts of students from a single organization. For more information about the program, contact us.
Testimonials
"I had high expectations entering this program and actually learned even more than I expected coming in. I loved how the program weaves together law, tech, and human behavior in the way it covers privacy engineering. I look forward to applying the concepts I learned in my work as a software engineer."
Software Engineer, Comcast.
"A fantastic program that builds up from notions of privacy, through current global regulations and up to advanced technology such as differential privacy and AI fairness."
Dr. Philip Ward, Associate Director, Privacy Technology & AI Ethics, National Australia Bank.
"This program gave me the tools to engineer privacy into our products and systems from the start. The program was engaging, accessible, and challenged me to expand my view and knowledge of how to build privacy into our company's initial offerings and beyond"
Jenn Sydeski, Founder & CEO, Connect Wolf.