Welcome to the web page for the Boston-area data privacy research group! We are faculty, postdocs, students, and research staff at Boston University, Harvard and Northeastern working on the foundations of data privacy and related topics.

We're excited to host the next installment of Privacy Day on April 11, 2025! See Privacy Day!

Faculty

• Mark Bun (BU)
• Cynthia Dwork (Harvard)
• Marco Gaboardi (BU)
• Seth Neel (Harvard)
• Sofya Raskhodnikova (BU)
• Jayshree Sarathy (Northeastern)
• Adam Smith (BU)
• Jonathan Ullman (Northeastern)
• Salil Vadhan (Harvard)

Postdocs and Research Associates

• Mahdi Haghifam (Northeastern)
• Priyanka Nanayakkara (Harvard)
• Vikrant Singhal (Northeastern → Waterloo → Harvard)

Students

• John Abascal (Northeastern)
• Konstantina Bairaktari (Northeastern)
• Victor Balcer (Harvard)
• Rathin Desai (BU)
• Palak Jain (BU)
• Ephraim Linder (BU)
• Walt McKelvie (Harvard)
• Debanuj Nayak (BU)
• Roy Rinberg (Harvard)
• Pranay Tankala (Harvard)
• Satchit Sivakumar (BU)
• Marika Swanberg (BU)
• Connor Wagaman (BU)
• Anatoly Zavyalov (BU)

Visiting Students

• Hannah Keller (TU Darmstadt, Fall 2021)
• Joel Daniel Andersson (U. Copenhagen, Spring 2025)

Alums

• Maryam Aliakbarpour (MIT → {BU/Northeastern} → Rice University)
• Daniel Alabi (Harvard → Columbia)
• Gavin Brown (BU → UW)
• Albert Cheu (Northeastern → Georgetown)
• Aloni Cohen (MIT → BU → U. Chicago)
• Ira Globus-Harris (BU → PhD at U. Penn)
• Christina Ilvento (Harvard → Google)
• Audra McMillan (BU/Northeastern → Apple)
• Marcel Neunhoeffer (U. Mannheim → {BU/Ludwig Maximilian} → IAB Germany)
• Jayshree Sarathy (Harvard → Northeastern)
• Rose Silver (Northeastern → CMU)
• Om Thakkar (BU → Google)
• Wanrong Zhang (Harvard → UBC)
• Lydia Zakynthinou (Northeastern → Berkeley)