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Cybersecurity Insights

a NIST blog

Ryan McKenna

Ryan McKenna is a Ph.D. student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he works in the DREAM lab under the supervision of Gerome Miklau and Daniel Sheldon. He received his B.S. from the University of Delaware in mathematics and computer science. His primary research area is privacy-preserving data analytics. He is particularly interested in the practical side of differential privacy, and developing algorithms, tools, and systems to deploy in real-world settings where privacy is important.

Workloads of Counting Queries: Enabling Rich Statistical Analyses with Differential Privacy

February 9, 2021

We are excited to introduce our first guest author in this blog series, Ryan McKenna, at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, whose research represents the