UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Praneeth Vepakomma, a doctoral student at MIT, will present a free public lecture titled “Differential Privacy for Measuring Nonlinear Correlations between Sensitive Data at Multiple Parties” at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 1. The lecture is part of the Young Achievers Symposium series hosted by the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence and will be held live via Zoom View Webinar. No registration is required.

Vepakomma’s research focuses on developing algorithms for distributed computation in statistics and machine learning under constraints of privacy, communication and efficiency.

Upcoming lectures in the Young Achievers Symposium series include:

• March 15: “From a Bag of Bagels to Bandit Data-Driven Optimization” by Ryan Shi, doctoral candidate of societal computing in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
• April 5: Su Lin Blodgett, postdoctoral researcher in the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics group at Microsoft Research Montréal
• April 12: "Challenges and Frontiers in Deploying Transparent Machine Learning" by Umang Bhatt, doctoral candidate in the Machine Learning Group at the University of Cambridge
• April 26: Paidamoyo Chapfuwa, postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University

Previous lectures can be viewed at the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence website.

About the Young Achievers Symposium

The Young Achievers Symposium highlights early career researchers in diverse fields of AI for social impact. The symposium series seeks to focus on emerging research, stimulate discussions, and initiate collaborations that can advance research in artificial intelligence for societal benefit. All events in the series are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Penn State students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty with an interest in socially responsible AI applications are encouraged to attend.

For more information, contact Amulya Yadav, assistant professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, at auy212@psu.edu.