Tag: Community

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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 Use Case Q&A w/ Oblivious

Welcome to the OpenDP use case Q&A series, where we explore how our collaborators in the community are using and integrating OpenDP in their work. First up, we have Oblivious and we’ll be chatting with Jack Fitzsimons to learn about all the great work they’re doing in the PETs community. Q: Why don’t you start…

Meet the 2023 OpenDP Interns: Patrick Song and Vicki Xu

Each year, OpenDP offers a summer internship to undergraduate, post-bacc, or graduate students for a 10-week program working on various projects under the OpenDP initiative or the broader privacy tools project. We have eight excellent students joining us this year that we wanted to highlight in a series of blogs to get to know them…

Announcing the Launch of Our New Website

We are excited to announce the launch of the newly designed OpenDP website.  We hope you find the website content informative and a valuable resource for differential privacy. Most importantly, we look forward to having you become a part of the OpenDP Community.  Interested in engaging with the OpenDP Community? There are a number of…

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…

Update on the OpenDP-Microsoft Collaboration

Gary King, OpenDP Faculty Co-Director In September 2019, Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science announced a large-scale collaboration with Microsoft to develop open source tools for differential privacy, work that is now part of the broader OpenDP community effort. We are thrilled to report on the progress our collaboration has made, and we write today…