Personal Data Ecosystem: Privacy, Utility, and Efficiency Challenge

Speaker:        Dr. Hamed Haddadi
                Imperial College London

Title:          "Personal Data Ecosystem: Privacy, Utility,
                 and Efficiency Challenge"

Date:           Thursday, 19 July 2018

Time:           4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:          Room 4475 (via lift no. 25/26, HKUST)

Abstract:

We are living in an increasingly complex ecosystem of behavioural
profiling and personal data analytics. In this talk, I present our ongoing
work on utilising edge-computing to improve the scalability and privacy of
user-centred analytics in the context of personal data. I present an
ecosystem where devices and resources centred around the user,
collectively referred to as the edge, can complement the cloud for
providing privacy-aware, yet accurate and efficient analytics. I then
present the evaluations of the proposed framework for applying
privacy-preserving deep learning techniques on a number of exemplar
applications, and discuss the broader implications of such approaches for
future systems such as the Databox platform.


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Short Biography

Dr Hamed Haddadi is a Senior Lecturer (~Associate Professor) and the
Deputy Director of Research in the Dyson School of Design Engineering, at
The Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College London. He leads the
Systems and Algorithms Design Laboratory (SysAl). He is also an Academic
Fellow of the Data Science Institute. His research interest are in
User-Centered Systems, IoT, Applied Machine Learning, Privacy, and
Human-Data Interaction.

He studied for BEng/MSc/PhD at University College London. He was a
postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in
Germany, and a postdoctoral research fellow at Department of Pharmacology,
University of Cambridge and The Royal Veterinary College, University of
London, followed by few years as a Lecturer and consequently Senior
Lecturer in Digital Media at Queen Mary University of London. He has spent
time working and collaborating with Intel Research, Microsoft Research,
AT&T Research, Telefonica, Qatar Computing Research Institute, and Sony
Europe. When not in the lab, he prefers to be on a ski slope or in a
kayak.

More: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/h.haddadi