Ryan McKenna is one of the winners of the second match in the Differential Privacy Synthetic Data Challenge

Award, Highlight

Ryan McKenna has recently won fourth place and a $3,000 prize in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) second match in the Differential Privacy Synthetic Data Challenge.

The competition tests participants’ ability to identify and develop practical methods for creating differentially private synthetic data sets. The challenges include empirical evaluation of synthetic data generation on common tasks such as clustering, classification, and regression.