PhD student Thomas Steinke is involved in the Privacy Tool's differential privacy work and de-identification meetings, working on differential privacy and pseudorandomness. He has previously served as a Teaching Fellow for CS225: Pseudorandomness taught by Salil Vadhan. Thomas also served as a mentor to REU students in summer 2014 and summer 2015.

5Recent Publications

• C. Dwork, A. Smith, T. Steinke, J. Ullman, and S. Vadhan, “Robust Traceability from Trace Amounts,” in IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2015), Berkeley, California, 2015. robust.pdf

• T. Steinke and J. Ullman, “Interactive Fingerprinting Codes and the Hardness of Preventing False Discovery,” JMLR: Workshop and Conference Proceedings, vol. 40, no. 201, pp. 1-41, 2015. PDF

• T. Steinke and J. Ullman, “Between Pure and Approximate Differential Privacy,” Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy (TPDP 2015), London, UK. 2015. TPDP Conference Version Between Pure and Approximate Differential Privacy.pdf

• T. Steinke and J. Ullman, “Interactive Fingerprinting Codes and the Hardness of Preventing False Discovery,” 2014. arXiv.orgAbstract 1410.1228v1.pdf

Poster Presentation

NSF Site Visit, December 2014