PhD candidate Matthew Regehr has received a Graduate Excellence Scholarship from Waterloo’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute. Sponsored generously by BTQ, Matthew will receive $10,000.
Matthew said he was thrilled to learn the great news, noting that the scholarship will help advance his work on privacy accounting.
“I am excited to take this opportunity to develop tools and theory to support the adoption of privacy-preserving technology for machine learning,” he said. “I am grateful to CPI and BTQ for their generous support to further my research.”
Matthew Regehr is a PhD student supervised by Professor Gautam Kamath. His research interests are broadly machine learning theory and differential privacy. His current projects focus on the theory of privacy accounting, locally private hypothesis selection, and fairness in machine learning.
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