Teaching and Advising

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Courses

Fall 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019: (CS 330) Introduction to Algorithm Design and Analysis.
Spring 2021: Privacy in Statistics and Machine Learning . Co-taught with Jonathan Ullman at Northeastern.
Spring 2020: (CS591 S1) Algorithms in Society.
Fall 2018: (CS591 S1) Privacy in Machine Learning and Statistical Inference.
Spring 2018: (CS506) Computational Tools for Data Science
Fall 2017: Algorithmic Foundations of Adaptive Data Analysis

Before I moved to BU:

Spring 2017, 2012, Fall 2009, Sping 2007: (CMPSC 465) Algorithm design and analysis
Fall 2016: Randomized Algorithms
Spring 2016, Spring 2011, Spring 2009, Fall 2007: (CSE 546) Cryptography
Fall 2015, 2014, 2010, 2008: (CSE 565) Algorithm Design and Analysis (graduate)
Spring 2015, Fall 2012, Spring 2010, Fall 2007 : (CSE 597) Data Privacy
Fall 2011: (CSE 598D) Pseudorandomness
Spring 2005:Short course on database privacy at Weizmann.

Postdocs and Students

Postdocs:

Maryam Aliakbarpour, co-mentored with Jon Ullman, 2021-
Audra McMillan, co-mentored with Jon Ullman, 2018-2020 (afterwards: Apple Research)
Jalaj Upadhyay, 2015-2017 (afterwards: postdoc at Johns Hopkins, researcher at Apple, tenure-track at Rutgers University)
Raef Bassily, 2012-2015 (afterwards: postdoc at UC San Diego, tenure-track at Ohio State)

Current Students:

Gavin Brown (Ph.D., advised since fall 2019)
Marika Swanberg (Ph.D., advised since fall 2019)
Palak Jain (Ph.D., advised since fall 2019)
Connor Wagaman (Ph.D., co-advised with Marco Gaboardi since fall 2022)
Mandar Juvekar (Ph.D., advised since fall 2022)
Ephraim Linder (Ph.D., advised since fall 2022)

Former Students:

Jiayu Zhang, Ph.D. 2022. First position: Postdoc at Caltech.
Om Thakkar, Ph.D. 2019. First position: Google.
Ye Zhang, Ph.D. 2015. First position: Google.
Abhradeep Guha Thakurta, Ph.D. 2014. First position at Microsoft Research and Stanford. Currently Research Scientist at Google.
Megan Heysham, M.S. 2014. First position: Amazon.
Laxman Vembar, M.S. 2008. First position: Bloomberg.
Ashwinkumar Gopalrathnam, M.S. (Electrical Engineering) 2008. First position: Bloomberg
S. Ranjit Ganta, Ph.D. 2008 (co-advised with Raj Acharya). First position: Oracle.

Graduate applicants

If you are interested in BU's graduate program, please look at BU Computer Science for information on admission and a description of the program. Research assistantships are available for strong candidates interested in working in cryptography and theory. Make sure to indicate my name, "cryptography" or "algorithms" prominently in your application if you want our group to consider you. Our department receives many applications, and I cannot review all of them personally.

Last modified: Fri Nov 4 11:51:26 EDT 2022
Adam Smith