Sign in

Palak Jain

@thepalakjain.bsky.social
74 followers 52 following 13 posts

Privacy and Cryptography PhD student at Boston University. | they/them website: thepalakjain.com

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Palak Jain
TCS+ @tcsplus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The recording of this week's talk, by Palak Jain (@thepalakjain.bsky.social), is now available online as well along with the slides: "Enforcing Demographic Coherence: A Harms-Aware Framework for Reasoning about Private Data Release" www.tcsplus.org/welcome/past...
tcsplus.org
TCS+ - 2024-2025
2025/05/07: Palak Jain, "Enforcing Demographic Coherence: A Harms-Aware Framework for Reasoning about Private Data Release" Palak Jain (Boston University)
034
Reposted by Palak Jain
Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 01/05/2025
Another TCS+ talk to look forward to: next week, Palak Jain (@thepalakjain.bsky.social) on a new data #privacy framework they introduce! 📋 forms.gle/ateNLcRo59H1... #TCSSky
082
Reposted by Palak Jain
TCS+ @tcsplus.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Bob* your calendar, as they say! *Mark?
The TCS+ calendar: 
Tom Gur on March 19
Or Zamir on April 9
Ryan Williams on April 23
Palak Jain on May 7
1104
Reposted by Palak Jain
Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 15/03/2025
I am so angry about what is happening in the US, and to Columbia University students. The US government are entrapping students, lying about them, upending their whole lives. "The department [of Homeland Security] did not provide any evidence for its allegations." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...
nytimes.com
How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her
Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.
2386
Reposted by Palak Jain
Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 09/03/2025
It's been a hard few months. But today I was reading (finally) a paper I was looking forward to - also, heard lorikeets from the garden. There are good things in the world. arxiv.org/abs/2502.02709
arxiv.org
Enforcing Demographic Coherence: A Harms Aware Framework for Reasoning about Private Data Release
The technical literature about data privacy largely consists of two complementary approaches: formal definitions of conditions sufficient for privacy preservation and attacks that demonstrate privacy ...
0221
Reposted by Palak Jain
Bailey 🕸️🕷️🦇 @bkacsmar.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Thank you to EnCOREInstitute for having us and to all our amazing attendees!! It was such a great workshop thanks to the enthusiasm and engagement of everyone who attended encoredp.github.io It was great to organise this with @ccanonne.bsky.social @amartyasanyal.bsky.social and Rachel Cummings
Picture of attendees at workshop at encore institute
0104
Reposted by Palak Jain
Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 11/01/2025
What a fantastic workshop! We need to do it again... An EnCORE?
0121
Reposted by Palak Jain
Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 10/01/2025
💡 Making slides, giving talks, and looking for illustrations for Alice, Bob, and the whole crew? Simón Oya (UBC) has drawn fresh, beautiful ones and releasing them under CC BY-SA 4.0 license: simonoya.com/drawings/ (discovered through the #EnCOREPrivacy25 workshop)
This is a low-res sprite sheet of the pictures available
0227
Reposted by Palak Jain
Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 23/11/2024
It's tough to gain visibility as a young researcher, and it's job market season! Are you a theoretical computer science PhD/postdoc on the job market? I don't have a crazy juge audience but I'll try to help a bit: fill this form, and I'll tweet your pitch and info! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com
Theoretical CS Job Market 2024
210538
Palak Jain @thepalakjain.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
(1/8) If you’re at NeurIPS '23, Iden Kalemaj and I will be presenting a poster (#1605) at 5pm today on joint work with Satchit Sivakumar, Adam Smith and Sofya Raskhodnikova on privately counting the number of distinct elements in turnstile streams.
160