ACM India Education Webinar on 28 January with Sachin Lodha: "Privacy--Challenges and Opportunities”
January 19, 2021
The next session of the ACM India Education Webinar series is on another interesting topic important to everyone. Register now for "Privacy—Challenges and Opportunities", to be presented on Thursday 28 January 2021 at 5 pm IST by Sachin Lodha of TCS's Corporate Research and Innovation team.
Registrations are limited, so please register early and secure your spot. All educators, academicians, industry professionals and students are welcome to attend the webinar. Feel free to forward this communication to those who would be interested.
Note : You can also stream this webinar on your mobile device, including smartphone and tablet.
Abstract: These are most exciting times to be a privacy researcher since, in today's hyper-networked world with global data flows, almost all major business and technology trends, then be it Big Data, Cloud Computing, Mobility, BYOD, or Internet of Things, require deep privacy underpinnings. So there is ample opportunity to invent and innovate.
In this talk we begin by observing that security and privacy are fundamentally different notions. While security paradigm assumes a clear separation between users and attackers, in privacy paradigm users are attackers too, depending on the use intent, and therefore security controls such as standard encryption-based mechanisms do not suffice!
Next we discuss the major goal of data privacy research, that is, to find the right balance between the two extremes of fully disclosed and completely withheld data that preserves both data privacy and its utility, and thus enable data sharing.
We then deliberate on two orthogonal efforts towards privacy formalization, namely, k-anonymity model and differential privacy. Both of them are not full proof, and yet are good frameworks for enabling fool proof data sharing in diverse scenarios.
Finally we close the talk with a brief overview of our work and description of some privacy problems that could have both practical relevance and theoretical meat.
Duration : 60 minutes (including audience Q&A)
Presenter:
Dr. Sachin Lodha is part of TCS's Corporate Research and Innovation team. Currently he heads TCS’s Cybersecurity and Privacy research working on diverse problems pertaining to trustworthy AI, de-risking cloud, securing IoT, privacy by design and strengthening the carbon layer. He has special interest in data privacy and related topics. His efforts on that front have led to multiple research papers, patents, and award-winning innovations that are now available as commercial TCS products.
Sachin graduated with a B Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1996 and received his PhD in Computer Science from Rutgers University (USA) in 2002. Since then he has been with TCS Innovation Labs - TRDDC in Pune. He was awarded the TCS Distinguished Scientist Award in 2011 for his sustained and high-impact contributions to research and business.
Host:
Geetanjali Kale, Pune Institute of Computer technology
