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

  • 02-01-2024 Congratulations to John and Stanley on their PETS paper!
  • 12-28-2023 New paper on metalearning!
  • 11-08-2023 Congratulations to Rose on her ITCS paper!
  • 10-09-2023 New paper on label-only membership inference.
  • 07-18-2023 New paper on lower bounds for DP clustering and subspace estimation.
  • 07-07-2023 Welcome to Mahdi Haghifam, our new Khoury Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow!
  • 07-05-2023 Congratulations to Lydia on her thesis defense! Good luck in your postdoc at UC Berkeley!
  • 06-05-2023 New paper on membership-inference attacks.
  • 05-24-2023 New paper on differentially private medians.
  • 05-14-2023 Congratulations to Konstantina on her COLT paper!

Students

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