Palak Jain
thepalakjain.bsky.social
Palak Jain
@thepalakjain.bsky.social
Privacy and Cryptography PhD student at Boston University. | they/them

website: thepalakjain.com
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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"
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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)
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May 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Another TCS+ talk to look forward to: next week, Palak Jain (@thepalakjain.bsky.social) on a new data #privacy framework they introduce!
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📢 Our fifth TCS+ talk will be Wednesday, May 7 (10amPT, 1pm ET, 19:00 CEST): Palak Jain (@thepalakjain.bsky.social) from Boston University, will tell us about "Enforcing Demographic Coherence"!

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TCS+ RSVP: Palak Jain (2025/05/07)
Title: Enforcing Demographic Coherence: A Harms Aware Framework for Reasoning about Private Data Release
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May 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Bob* your calendar, as they say!

*Mark?
March 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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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...
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Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities.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.
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March 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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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
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 ...
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March 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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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
January 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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What a fantastic workshop! We need to do it again... An EnCORE?
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
January 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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💡 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)
January 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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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!
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Theoretical CS Job Market 2024
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November 23, 2024 at 11:56 PM
(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.
December 12, 2023 at 10:13 PM