Policy Memos, White Papers, Public Comments

A Community-Driven Differential Privacy Deployment Registry. NIST Internal Report (Initial Draft), September 2025. (with Micah Altman, Sharon Ayalde, Rachel Cummings, Damien Desfontaines, Jack Fitzsimons, Elena Ghazi, Andrew Gruen, James Honaker, Gary Howarth, Nitin Kohli, Joe P. Near, Rob Pisarczyk, Salil Vadhan)

Increasing Responsible Data Sharing Capacity Throughout Government. Federation of American Scientists Day One Project, March 2025. (with Rachel Cummings, Shlomi Hod, Palak Jain, Gabriel Kaptchuk, Tamalika Mukherjee, Jayshree Sarathy, Jeremy Seeman)

Response to the RFI on Executive Branch Agency Handling of Commercially Available Information Containing Personally Identifiable Information. December 2024. (with Rachel Cummings, Shlomi Hod, Palak Jain, Gabriel Kaptchuk, Tamalika Mukherjee, Jayshree Sarathy)

Comment on “NIST SP 800-226: Guidelines for Evaluating Differential Privacy Guarantees”. March 2024. (with Rachel Cummings, Shlomi Hod, Gabriel Kaptchuk, Tamalika Mukherjee, Jayshree Sarathy, Jeremy Seeman)

Public Writing

Launching the Differential Privacy Deployments Registry. OpenDP Blog, November 2025. (with Elena Ghazi, Salil Vadhan)

You’ll Probably Be Protected: Explaining Differential Privacy Guarantees. Center for Democracy and Technology Blog, April 2025. (with Rachel Cummings)

Reflections from the Differential Privacy Beyond Algorithms Workshop. OpenDP Blog, March 2025. (with Amina Abdu, Palak Jain, Ivoline Ngong, Jayshree Sarathy)

How AI Researchers Are Redirecting AI’s Societal Impact. AI 100 Early Career Essay Competition (Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence), September 2023.

More discussion of differential privacy at the Census. Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, May 2022. (with Jessica Hullman)

Visualizing Privacy Trade-Offs for Sensitive Data. Technically Social, April 2022.

Visualizing the accuracy-privacy trade-off to improve budget decisions with differential privacy. Multiple Views, January 2022.

States Are Suing the Census Bureau Over Its Attempts to Make Data More Private. Slate, August 2021. (with Jessica Hullman)

Here’s how AI researchers are thinking about the societal impacts of AI. Technically Social, May 2021.