Ashwin Machanavajjhala
Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science, Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Faculty Area:
- Databases, Privacy
- Email:
- ashwin at cs.duke.edu
- Office:
- D329 LSRC
- Phone:
- (919) 660-6590
- Web page:
- http://www.cs.duke.edu/~ashwin
Education
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2008
B. Tech., IIT Madras, 2002
Honors & Awards
David and Janet Vaughan Brooks Teaching Award, 2018
IEEE ICDE Influential Paper Award, 2017
NSF Career Award, 2013
ACM-SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, 2008
Research
Privacy preserving data analysis, fairness in data science and machine learning (ML) workflows, cryptography and secure computation, combatting misinformation.
Selected Publications
- PrivateSQL: A Differentially Private SQL Query Engine, with I. Kotsogiannis, Y. Tao, X. He, M. Fanaeepour, M. Hay, G. Miklau, Proceedings of the VLDB 12(11) (2019)
- ShrinkWrap: DifferentiallyPrivate Query Processing in Private Data Federations, with J. Bater, X. He, W. Ehirch and J. Rogers, Proceedings of the VLDB 12(3) (2019)
- Ektelo: A Framework for Defining Differentially Private Computation, with D. Zhang, R. McKenna, I. Kotsogiannis, M. Hay, G. Miklau, To appear, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) 2019
- Capacity Bounded Differential Privacy, with K. Chaudhuri, J. Imola, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2019
- Permissions Plugins as Android Apps, with N. Raval, A. Razeen, L. Cox, ACM Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys) 2019