#  Graduate students 

 



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  [### Daniel Alabi

 ](/people/daniel-alabi)Graduate student, Computer Science, Theory Group

Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

 

 

 

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   [### Brendan Avent 

 ](/people/brendan-avent)Graduate Student Researcher (Ph.D. Candidate)

University of Southern California 

Past Personnel

 

 

 

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   [### Michael Bar-Sinai

 ](/people/michael-bar-sinai)Graduate Student, Ben Gurion University in Negev, Israel

Visiting Graduate Student, Harvard University, IQSS

Current Member of Datatags Team

 

 

 Michael creates DataTags theory (based on decision graphs), programming language and tools, and explores their integration with data repositories, such as Dataverse. He has also contributed to the software development and architect of the project... 

 

 

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   [### Aaron Bembenek

 ](/people/aaron-bembenek)Graduate researcher (summer 2015), Special Student affiliated with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Graduate researcher (fall 2015)

 

 

 Aaron Bembenek is a graduate researcher in programming languages with Steve Chong. He joined as a summer 2015 intern, and continued his work into the academic year. Poster Presentation NSF Site Visit, October 2015 

 

 

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   [### Mark Bun

 ](/people/mark-bun)PhD student (NDSEG fellowship), Theory of Computation group, Harvard

Past Personnel 

 

 

 PhD student Mark Bun is involved in the Privacy Tool's differential privacy work and de-identification meetings, working on differentially private algorithms and lower bounds. He has previously served as a teaching fellow for PI Vadhan's Cryptography... 

 

 

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   [### Thiago Costa

 ](/people/thiago-costa) <tcosta@fas.harvard.edu>PhD Candidate in Applied Mathematics (2012-2014), Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Past Personnel 

 

 

 Thiago Barros Rodrigues Costa is a PhD candidate in Applied Mathematics at Harvard University, advised by Edo Airoldi. Poster Presentation 

 

 

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   [### Gian Pietro Farina

 ](/people/gian-pietro-farina)Graduate Student at SUNY Buffalo

 

 

 

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   [### Boriana Gjura

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   [### Anitha Gollamudi

 ](/people/anitha-gollamudi)Graduate Student Researcher 

 

 

 

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   [### Sarah Hampton

 ](/people/sarah-hampton)Graduate Student Intern at the Berkman Klein Center (Summer 2019)

 

 

 Sarah is an attorney by training, currently enrolled in the Master of Global Policy program at the University of Texas at Austin. She researches the permitted "statistical purposes" for which Census Bureau data may be used under 13 U.S.C. §9 to understand... 

 

 

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   [### Qiuyi Han 

 ](/people/qiuyi-han)Graduate Student Researcher

 

 

 

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   [### Muhammed Y. Idris

 ](/people/muhammed-idris)Visiting Graduate Student, Data Science Group, IQSS

Ph.D. candidate,Pennsylvania State University

Past Personnel

 

 

 Muhammed Y. Idris is a pre-doctoral researcher at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a visiting scholar wit the data science group at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and a Ph.D. candidate at the Pennsylvania State... 

 

 

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   [### Michael Lackner

 ](/people/michael-lackner)Graduate Student, ME Computational Science and Engineering Program, SEAS

 

 

 

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   [### Miriam Manevitz

 ](/people/miriam-manevitz)Graduate Student Researcher (Summer 2017)

Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

 

 

 

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   [### Scott David Moore

 ](/people/scott-david-moore)PhD Student, Programming Languages group, SEAS, Harvard

Past Personnel 

 

 

 Scott David Moore is a graduate student in Steve Chong's Programming Languages group. Publications A. Askarov, S. Moore, C. Dimoulas, and S. Chong, “ Cryptographic Enforcement of Language-Based Erasure,” Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Computer Security... 

 

 

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