Current Topics in Privacy Seminar
The Current Topics in Privacy Seminar is a three-credit course (17-702) taught in the Fall and Spring semesters. Members of the university community are invited to participate in the seminar even if they are not enrolled in the course. In this seminar course students will discuss recent papers and current public policy issues related to privacy. Privacy professionals from industry, government, and non-profits will deliver several guest lectures each semester.
Members of the CMU community interested in receiving notifications about the seminars each week should contact the course instructor to request to be added to the email list.
Instructors: Hana Habib and Norman Sadeh
Time and location: Tuesdays, 12:30-1:50 PM. All seminars will be held in Hamburg Hall, 1002 and will be available via Zoom.
Fall 2023 Scheduled Talks:
August 29th 2023 - Course Introduction by Prof. Norman Sadeh and Prof Hana Habib
September 5th 2023 - Privacy Engineering Student Presentations
September 12th 2023 - Privacy Engineering Student Presentations
September 19th 2023 - Omer Tene (Goodwin Law)
September 26th 2023 - Aleecia McDonald (CMU)
October 3rd 2023 - Lauren Herckis (CMU)
October 10th 2023 (Co-Sponsored by the Block Center for Technology and Society)
- Krishnaram Kenthapadi (Fiddler AI)
October 10th 2023 - No seminar (Fall break)
October 24th 2023 (Co-Sponored by the Block Center for Technology and Society
October 31st 2023 - Sebastian Zimmeck (Wesleyan University)
November 7th 2023 - No seminar (Democracy Day)
November 14th 2023 - Jayati Dev (Comcast)
November 21st 2023 - Chris Choy & John Szinger (Consumer Reports)
November 28th 2023 - Cooper Quintin (EFF)
December 5th 2023 - MSIT Privacy Engineering capstone presentations