EDUCATION & OUTREACH NSF site visit October 19, 2015 Salil Vadhan and Urs Gasser Supported by the NSF Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program, the Sloan Foundation, and Google.
Overarching Goals Exposing a multidisciplinary understanding of data privacy to a wide range of audiences (students, policymakers, public) Bringing integrated solutions to data privacy problems to practice (focusing on data repositories and computational social science)
Activities 1. Training students & researchers 2. Development of courses & educational materials 3. Outreach to general public 4. Open resources 5. Policy engagement and commentary 6. Engagement with stakeholders
Paul Handorff: undergrad in diff. privacy courseSummer 2013: intern under Harvard fundingSummer 2014+: joined QuoraSummer 2014: intern with Dataverse team : intern with Dataverse teamNaomi Day: Wellesley first-yearConnor Bain: U. South CarolinaSummer 2014: differential privacy internFall 2014: applying to PhD programs : term-time research Training Students & Researchers 5 Harv. grad 11 Harv. law 11 Harv. ugrad 11 non-H. grad 10 non-H. law 3 non-H. postdoc 7 non-H. ugrad 11 grad student 11 postdoc/ fellow 9 summer law intern 9 summer undergrad 11 term-time ugrad 8 term-time law 4 faculty/ researcher 6 gov’t 5 grad school 9 industry 4 non-profit 3 postdoc students & postdocs 15 women, 6 underrepresented minorities Pre-project Position Project Position Post-Project Position Jon Ullman: PhD student here before project : PhD student, Siebel Scholar : Project Postdoc : Simons Society of Fellows, NYFall 2015: CS Faculty, Northeastern U.Andrew Wan: Ass’t Prof. at Tsinghua U : project postdoc : Simons Institute research fellow2014+: Institute for Defense Analysis, PrincetonBryan Lee: Law Student, George Washington U.Summer 2014: Law InternFall 2014: law FTC, Solove RA Numbers on this slide are old - need to be updated.
Summer 2015 Intern Experience Students from CS (X), Social Science (Y), and Law (Z) Project-wide orientation at start of summer For all students, from all units: CRCS, Berkman, IQSS/Dataverse Tutorial videos on online Continued tutorials throughout summer Differential privacy, R, Statistics Many taught by students, postdocs, and visitors Cross-disciplinary mentoring Continued project-wide activities All-hands meetings Kickball game and project retreat (repeating Spring term retreat)
Typical Summer Meeting Attendance Computer ScienceSocial Science/ IQSS/Stats Law Sr.PdocPhDUgradSr.PdocUgradSr.PdocGrad All- hands Diff. Priv Bridging Notions * Not based on rigorous data collection.
Survey of Project Participants
Project website Update and replace with actual link that I can follow to show them things
Outreach to General Public Over 700 registrants Videos online
Outreach to Social Science First Dataverse Community Meeting, June Presentations & Break-Out Sessions on Privacy, incl. DataTags Conference Presentations Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association Summer Meetings of the Society for Political Methodology Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association. Society of Economic Measurement OECD conference. Paper “Automating Open Science for Big Data” by Crosas-King-Honaker-Sweeney in a special Big Data issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Outreach to Legal & Policy Communities Goal: Transferring project findings and insights from technical literature to lawyers and policymakers Deep interdisciplinary collaborations within the project Developing real-world data privacy use cases Contextualizing findings from scientific research on privacy Identifying gaps in current regulatory and procedural approaches Devising new analysis frameworks and policy recommendations for addressing gaps Highlights from Year 3: joint publications, presentations, meetings & workshops
Synthesis, Analysis & Application Theoretical research on privacy Policymakers Legal scholars Practicing lawyers Re-identification literature Identifying gaps in current approaches Formulating policy recommend- ations Real-world privacy practices Law students Approach Outreach to Legal & Policy Communities
Synthesis, Analysis & Application Theoretical research on privacy Policymakers Legal scholars Practicing lawyers Re-identification literature Identifying gaps in current approaches Formulating policy recommend- ations Real-world privacy practices Law students Highlights Perspectives on the Future of Digital Privacy Article EU communities Outreach to Legal & Policy Communities
Synthesis, Analysis & Application Theoretical research on privacy Policymakers Legal & ethics scholars Practicing lawyers Re-identification literature Identifying gaps in current approaches Formulating policy recommend- ations Real-world privacy practices Law students Highlights Strictly Biomedical? Sketching the Ethics of the Big Data Ecosystem in Biomedicine Article Outreach to Legal & Policy Communities
Synthesis, Analysis & Application Theoretical research on privacy Policymakers Legal & ethics scholars Practicing lawyers Re-identification literature Identifying gaps in current approaches Formulating policy recommend- ations Real-world privacy practices Law students Highlights When Is Information Purely Public? Article
Outreach to Legal & Policy Communities Synthesis, Analysis & Application Theoretical research on privacy Policymakers Legal scholars Practicing lawyers Re-identification literature Identifying gaps in current approaches Formulating policy recommend- ations Real-world privacy practices Law students & General public Highlights Internet Monitor Report: Reflections on the Digital World Essays & Medium Stories
Outreach to Legal & Policy Communities Synthesis, Analysis & Application Theoretical research on privacy Policymakers Legal scholars Practicing lawyers Re-identification literature Identifying gaps in current approaches Formulating policy recommend- ations Real-world privacy practices Law students Highlights Rethinking Privacy in an Era of Big Data, IoT, and Nudge Student-led Mini-symposium
Outreach to Legal & Policy Communities Synthesis, Analysis & Application Theoretical research on privacy Policymakers Legal scholars Practicing lawyers Re-identification literature Identifying gaps in current approaches Formulating policy recommend- ations Real-world privacy practices Law students Highlights Towards a Modern Approach to Privacy-Aware Government Data Releases Article & Presentation at Berkeley Symposium
Outreach to Legal & Policy Communities Future Plans NYU-Berkeley Conference on Responsible Use of Open Data: Government and the Private Sector (November 2015) Presentation on our open data article Berkman Luncheon Series Talk (CRCS+Berkman) Bridging Legal and Computer Science Approaches to Privacy (November 2015) Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics Conference (May 2016)