Project PrivTree: Blurring your “where” for location privacy
By Winnie Cui, Senior Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Data scientist, Anthony Tockar, used publicly available location data to show how celebrities can be tracked throughout New York City, while working on his Master’s Degree…
INGESTBASE: A Declarative Data Ingestion System.
Microsoft continues to support data science research with $3M cloud credits to NSF BIGDATA program
By Vani Mandava, Director, Data Science, Microsoft Research The National Science Foundation has launched a new solicitation in 2017 for the advancement of data science research and applications. The solicitation, titled Critical Techniques, Technologies and…
Leveraging Privacy in Data Analysis
My research focuses on applying differential privacy to problems in economics, statistical hypothesis testing, and adaptive data analysis in machine learning. At a high level, a differential private algorithm limits the sensitivity of the outcome…