The 2023 OpenDP Community Meeting was held after the TPDP conference on Friday, September 29th at Harvard University. Kicking off the meeting, we held a welcome reception at the Science & Engineering Complex outdoor terrace where over seventy attendees got the opportunity to meet and start networking on the previous evening. Attendees enjoyed food and…
Meet the 2023 OpenDP Interns: Nicolas Berrios, Roy Rinberg, and Yanis Vandecasteele
Left to right: Nicolas Berrios, Roy Rinberg, Yanis Vandecasteele Welcome to the second Meet the 2023 OpenDP Interns blog featuring Nicolas Berrios, Roy Rinberg, and Yanis Vandecasteele! Learn more about the three projects they worked on this summer and what they’re doing next below. With the summer coming to a close, we’ll have one last set…
Meet the 2023 OpenDP Fellows: Pauline Maury-Laribiere and Liudas Panavas
OpenDP Visiting Fellows are part-time positions meant for engineers or scholars in industry or academia who wish to learn about, contribute, and engage with OpenDP. To learn more about the program and apply for the next round, click here! For 2023, we have two Fellows: Pauline Maury-Laribiere and Liudas Panavas. Get to know them and…
OpenDP Progress and Outlook
As we draw to the close of an unusual year marked by the pandemic and the most difficult times it brought to us and our loved ones, the OpenDP team would like to extend our best wishes to you and your family this holiday season. Since our Community Meeting in May, we have been hard…
OpenDP Team Discussion with Red Hat
Dear OpenDP Community, We are writing to share some interesting discussions between the OpenDP team and Red Hat. James Honaker and Mercè Crosas discussed the importance of data sharing and privacy preservation, in both scientific and computer technology domains, with Sherard Griffin, Director at Red Hat in the AI Center of Excellence, in Red Hat’s Regional…
OpenDP Hiring Scientific Staff
We are no longer hiring for these positions. If you are interested in working with OpenDP and we do not have any current openings, please feel free to contact us at info@opendp.org. The OpenDP project seeks to hire 1-2 scientists to work with faculty directors Gary King and Salil Vadhan and the OpenDP Community to…
OpenDP Advisory Board Report
We are grateful to the many thought leaders who have agreed to serve on the inaugural OpenDP Advisory Board. The first Advisory Board meeting was held as part of the first OpenDP Community Meeting, on May 15th, 2020. The discussion covered a wide range of topics, including governance, use cases, community role / mission and…
Building an Inclusive Community
Salil Vadhan, OpenDP Faculty Co-Director Dear OpenDP Community, Like many others, we on the OpenDP team are angered and saddened by the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many Black Americans before them. We spent last Wednesday participating in #ShutDownSTEM, reflecting on the systemic racism in academia and the tech…
Community News – Social Science One
The following news from the Social Science One project may be of interest to the OpenDP Community. If you have news you would like to share with the community, please feel free to use this mailing list community@opendp.org. We’ve updated the Social Science One – Facebook “URLs dataset”. It now has 17 trillion cell values with…
Dataverse Community Meeting and Integration of OpenDP with Data Repositories
One of OpenDP use cases is the integration of OpenDP tools with public data repositories to release differentially private statistics of sensitive data hosted in the repository. Public data repositories have become ubiquitous in research and are a key part of the research lifecycle. Funders increasingly require sharing the research data associated with a funded…