Jonathan Ullman
Associate Professor
Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Northeastern University
Office: 177 Huntington, Office 616
Email: jullman@ccs.neu.edu
           

About Me

My research centers on the foundations of privacy for machine learning and statistics, in particular differential privacy and its surprising interplay with other topics such as statistical validity, robustness, cryptography, and fairness. My background is in theoretical computer science, but increasingly my work spans machine learning, statistics, cryptography, and cybersecurity. My research and teaching have been recognized with an NSF CAREER award and the Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teaching Award.

At Northeastern, I am a member of the Theory Group, the Cryptography and Privacy Group and the Cybersecurity & Privacy Institute. I am also a member of the Boston-Area Data Privacy Group

Current Events

In Spring 2025 I am teaching a CS 7880: Seminar on Foundations of Trustworthy ML.

  • 04-15-2025 I will be PC co-chair for ALT 2026! Submit your best work!
  • 04-14-2025 Congratulations to lab alum Nico Berrios, who will be starting his PhD at Georgia Tech in the Fall!
  • 04-11-2025 I joined the editorial board of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality! Submit your best work!
  • 04-03-2025 Kongratulations to Konstantina on her thesis proposal! Konstantina will be looking for postdocs soon!
  • 01-22-2025 Kongratulations to Konstantina on her AISTATS paper!
  • 01-21-2025 I was appointed to the Census Scientific Advisory Committee (CSAC)!
  • 12-18-2024 New paper on private personalized learning!
  • 12-10-2024 Our paper on bias-variance tradeoffs in DP was accepted to JASA—my first stats journal paper!
  • 11-22-2024 We hosted a successful Privacy Day at BU!
  • 10-04-2024 Congratulations to Rose on her SODA paper
  • 09-26-2024 Congratulations to Mahdi on his NeurIPS paper

Students

I'm fortunate to work with an amazing group of students and postdocs. Currently I work with: