Gerome Miklau

Professor

College of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

140 Governors Drive
Amherst, MA 01003
P: (413) 545-4032 ⋅ F: (413) 545-1249
Office: 304 Computer Science Building
[lastname]@cs.umass.edu

Recent News

I'm a co-founder of Tumult Labs, where I'm working while on majority leave from UMass.
I'm happy to be supporting the OpenDP effort as co-chair of the advisory board.
Dan Zhang completed her PhD and joined Megagon.
Ryan McKenna completed his PhD and will join Google Research.

2020 papers accepted: FAccT, PVLDB, InfoVis. (See publications)
Our 2010 paper was awarded the 2020 PODS Test-of-time award.
New paper appeared at ACM FAT* 2020 on potential fairness consequences of using differential privacy for decision making.
A version of our 2018 SIGMOD paper on Ektelo has been published as a SIGMOD Record Research Highlight.
2019 papers accepted: CIDR, ICML, 2 PVLDB, SIGMOD Demo, PVLDB Demo, TPDP. (See publications)
Ryan McKenna designed winning solutions for all three rounds of the NIST Privacy Challenge (placing 3rd, 4th, and then 1st).
Talk at the Simons Institute in March: Accuracy Disparities and Social Choices in the Design of Privacy Mechanisms.
Talk at the Simons Institute in January: Algorithms for Answering Linear Queries.
Our 2018 SIGMOD paper on Ektelo was invited to the "Best of SIGMOD" TODS Issue.
EKTELO, our framework for implementing privacy algorithms, is available on github.
2018 papers accepted: PVLDB, PVLDB Panel, SIGMOD, 2 SIGMOD Demos. (See publications.)
[Sep. 2017] ~~Associate~~ Professor
2017 papers accepted: CCS, SIGMOD, PVLDB, SDM, ICML, SSDBM, CACM.
[Aug. 2017] Yue Wang has graduated and will join MSR.
[Jul. 2017] I am helping to organize the TPDP, The Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy Workshop, co-located with CCS this year.
[Oct. 2016] I attended the Sloan-NSF Workshop on Practical Privacy at the U.S. Census Bureau.
[Aug. 2016] DPComp.org is now public: explore privacy algorithms and their performance.
[Jul. 2016] I co-organized the "Data, Responsibly" workshop at Dagstuhl.
[Jun. 2016] We're presenting a paper and a demo at SIGMOD in San Francisco.
[Jun. 2016] Our team is giving two talks at the Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy workshop (co-located with ICML)
[Oct. 2015] We've received an award under the Brandeis program on online privacy.
[Sep. 2015] I will be a fellow of the UMass Interdisciplinary Studies Institute for 2015-2016.
[Sep. 2015] Prof. Michael Hay is visiting for the 2015-2016 academic year.
[Jan. 2015] I've returned from paternity leave.
[Sep. 2014] Wentian Lu has graduated and joined Google.
[Aug. 2013] Chao Li has graduated and joined Google.
[Jul. 2013] I’ve returned from my sabbatical in Paris.
[Mar. 2013] ICDT 2013 Best Paper Award: A Theory of Pricing Private Data.
[Sep. 2012] I’m on sabbatical in Paris for the 2012-2013 academic year.
[Sep. 2012] Alexandra Meliou joined the UMass Database Lab.

Students

Current Students

Brett Mullins (MS/Phd)
Arisa Tajima (MS/Phd)

Former Students

Ryan McKenna (Phd 2022; now at Google Research)
Joie Yeahuay Wu (MS received 2022; now at Enovant.)
Dan Zhang (PhD 2021; now at Megagon)
Yue Wang (PhD 2017; now at MSR)
Liudmila Elagina (MS received 2016)
Wentian Lu (PhD 2014; now at Google)
Abhinav Parate (MS 2011; PhD with Ganesan 2014; now at HP Labs)
Chao Li (PhD 2013; now at Google)
Michael Hay (PhD 2010; now at Colgate University)
Patrick Stahlberg (MS 2007; now at Google)

Teaching

Spring 2021 CMPSCI 445: Information Systems
Fall 2019 CMPSCI 445: Information Systems
Fall 2018 CMPSCI 645: Database Design and Implementation
Spring 2018 CMPSCI 445: Information Systems
Spring 2017 CMPSCI 445: Information Systems
Fall 2016 CMPSCI 345: Practice and Applications of Data Management
Spring 2016 CMPSCI 445: Information Systems
Fall 2015 CMPSCI 187: Programming with Data Structures
Spring 2014 CMPSCI 187: Programming with Data Structures
Spring 2014 CMPSCI 645: Database Design and Implementation
Spring 2012 CMPSCI 445: Information Systems
Spring 2011 CMPSCI 691DP: Principles of Data Privacy
Fall 2010 CMPSCI 445: Information Systems
Spring 2010 CMPSCI 645: Database Design and Implementation
Spring 2009 CMPSCI 445: Information Systems
Fall 2008 CMPSCI 445: Information Systems
Spring 2008 CMPSCI 645: Database Design and Implementation
Fall 2007 CMPSCI 591Q: Database Systems Laboratory
Spring 2007 CMPSCI 691R: Seminar on Reliability in Information Integration
Fall 2006 CMPSCI 445: Information Systems
Spring 2006 CMPSCI 645: Database Design and Implementation
Fall 2005 CMPSCI 691i: Hot topics in Information Security

Service Activities

Steering Committee Member, Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy Workshop Series (TPDP)
Co-chair, OpenDP Advisory Board
Steering Committee Member, Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*) (2018, 2019, 2020)
Group leader, Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) 2018, 2020
Organizer, "Data, Responsibly" workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics
Area Chair, International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2017.
Area Chair, International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2016.
Associate Editor, Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Feb 2012–2014.
Co-Chair, DBSocial: First Workshop on Databases and Social Networks, 2011.
Co-Chair, Tutorial Program, Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2011.
Web Chair for SIGMOD/PODS 2009

Selected Program Committee Memberships

ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*) 2018, 2019
Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) 2009, 2012, 2014, 2019
Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) 2006, 2017
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) 2012, 2016
Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB) 2007, 2008, 2010
Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB) 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016
Workshop on Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP) 2009, 2010
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2008
Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS) 2007
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2007