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Nicolas Papernot

Assistant Professor

Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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  • Assistant Professor
    Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • 416-978-7600 (Work)
  • University of Toronto, The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 10 King’s College Road, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G4, Canada

BIO

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science. I am also a faculty member at the Vector Institute where I hold a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, and a faculty affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute. In 2022, I was named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Computer Science.

My research interests are at the intersection of security, privacy, and machine learning. If you would like to learn more about my research, I recommend reading the blog posts I co-authored on cleverhans.io, for example about proof-of-learning, collaborative learning beyond federation, dataset inference, machine unlearning, differentially private ML, or adversarial examples.

My research has been cited in the press, including the New York Times, Popular Science, and Wired. I currently serve as a Program Committee Chair of the IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML), an Associate Chair of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), and an Area Chair of NeurIPS. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, working with Prof. Patrick McDaniel and supported by a Google PhD Fellowship. Upon graduating, I spent a year at Google Brain where I still spend some of my time.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1 Sep 2019 - present

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Faculty Member
    Vector Institute, Toronto, Canada1 Sep 2019 - present
  • Research Scientist
    Google Brain1 Aug 2018 - present

DEGREES

  • PhD
    Pennsylvania State University, State College, United States

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • French
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

AVAILABILITY

  • Media enquiries

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI)

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