Hannah Keller receives Villum International Postdoc Grant
Hannah Keller has recently completed her PhD under the supervision of Professor Claudio Orlandi and will now continue her career as a postdoc. She has been awarded the Villum International Postdoc Grant and will continue her academic career at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy.
In her PhD, Distributed Differential Privacy Using Cryptographic Techniques, Hannah Keller developed algorithms that allow large datasets to be analyzed without compromising privacy. She specifically utilized secure multi-party computation, which enables computations on sensitive data held by mutually distrusting entities. Differential privacy ensures that the output of a computation or machine learning model does not reveal too much information about any individual input.
These tools are applicable in many settings of digital society, where information is stored on digital platforms. For example, the techniques could be used to improve healthcare through data analysis without exposing patients’ private information.
Postdoc stay at Max Plank Institute
With the Villum International Postdoc Grant, Hannah will undertake a two-year postdoctoral stay at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy in Bochum, Germany. At MPI-SP Hannah will build on her PhD work and develop multi-party computation and differential privacy for more applied, AI-driven contexts.
During her stay she will receive mentorship from Carmela Troncoso, scientific director of the institute and head of the SPRING lab, and Tamalika Mukherjee, research group leader of the PrivAIL lab.
About the Villum International Postdoc Grant
The Villum International Postdoc Grant supports the advancement of talented female researchers in the technical and natural sciences. Only one in seven professors in the natural and technical sciences is a woman. The Villum Foundation wishes to support female researchers, so that more women can further their academic careers and become independent researchers, resulting in more diverse research talent and workplaces. Read more about the grant here: Villum International Postdoc | Villum Fonden