# Jack Murtagh Graduate student, Computer Science, Theory Group, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Research Assistant, CRCS, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences ![jackpic.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6656/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/privacytools/files/jackpic.jpeg?itok=PLoJ4JZK) email Jack Murtagh is a graduate student in Computer Science, advised by Salil Vadhan. He began the Privacy Tools project in the summer of 2014 as a research assistant working on the architecture and apportioning of privacy budget for differentially private, descriptive statistics. **Publication** - J. Murtagh and S. Vadhan, “[The Complexity of Computing the Optimal Composition of Differential Privacy](/publications/complexity-computing-optimal-composition-differential-privacy),” in Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC 2016), 2016. [ArXiv Version](http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03113) [MurtaghVadhan.pdf](/files/privacytools/files/MurtaghVadhan.pdf?m=1444780649) **Poster Presentation** NSF Site Visit, October 2015 [](/file_url/574) ![screen_shot_2015-11-04_at_9.50.53_am.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum6656/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/privacytools/files/screen_shot_2015-11-04_at_9.50.53_am.png?itok=O2Z9hmRB) NSF Site Visit, December 2014 [](/file_url/391) ![Jack Poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum6656/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/privacytools/files/screen_shot_2015-01-16_at_1.58.38_pm.png?itok=eX60WFUY) - ## People [Postdocs & Students](/postdocs-students-0) [Graduate students](/grad-students) - ## Research [Differential Privacy](/research/differential-privacy)