The mission of the OpenDP Privacy-Proof Review Board (PPRB) is to review, in a timely and fair manner, submissions of proofs contributed by members of the OpenDP community and guarantee that they meet the requirements to be integrated in the OpenDP library. Due to the critical mission of the OpenDP library, code contributions and their proofs need to be vetted, not only to guarantee traditional forms of code quality, but also to guarantee, specifically, that the code contributions satisfy the differential privacy claims that are asserted and justified by the accompanying proofs. Moreover, the contributions will be checked to ensure that they provide the utility/usefulness that the contributors claim. Find more information in this process document.
Vetting will be implemented via a peer review process based on code reviews.
2024 Privacy Proof Review Board Members
Marco Gaboardi (Boston University) (editor-in-chief), Tudor Cebere (Inria), Michael Hay (Tumult Labs) (exec editor), Christian Lebeda (Inria), Elisabet Lobo-Vesga (dpella), Annabelle McIver (Macquarie University), Zachary Ratliff (Harvard University/OpenDP), Michael Shoemate (Harvard University/OpenDP), Vikrant Singhal (Harvard University/OpenDP, Pierre Tholoniat (Columbia University), Salil Vadhan (Harvard University/OpenDP) (exec editor), Connor Wagaman (Boston University).
Submission format:
Submissions are in the form of pull requests (PRs) to the OpenDP Library repository. Here are the details on how to create a submission.
- Clone the OpenDP Library (link).
- Write a LaTex proof (link).
- Open a pull request on the OpenDP Library repository (link, open proof PRs here).
Would you like to be a future member of the Privacy Proof Review Board?
We welcome nomination, including self-nominations, for serving on the proof review board. Participation in the PPRB can provide members valuable insight into the challenges of designing differential privacy contributions and into the process of forming community norms for the contributions to the OpenDP library. If you are interested in participating in this process, or you would like to nominate someone else, please write an email to proof-review@opendp.org with a short description of the expertise of the nominated person.