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Daniel Kifer

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Daniel Kifer is a professor of Computer Science at Penn State University. He is working with the U.S. Census Bureau to design the disclosure avoidance system for the 2020 Decennial Census. His work on privacy has won two test-of-time awards and a best paper award, and he is currently serving on the Committee on National Statistics.

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Testing for Differential Privacy Bugs

We are excited to introduce our third guest author in this blog series, Dan Kifer, Professor of Computer Science at Penn State. Dr. Kifer’s research spans many