Calendar & Syllabus

Week 1 - Introduction and Privacy Attacks

Jan 29
Introduction & Logistics
Slides   Reading - Sec. 1.1-1.3 of DPAI Book Extra - Narayanan & Shmatikov (2008)
HW 0 released HW0 PDF
Jan 21
Privacy Attacks - Membership Inference
Required - Ch. 5 of DPAI Book Extra - Shokri et al. (2017), Carlini et al. (2021)
Jan 22
Privacy Attacks - Data Reconstruction
Required - Hayes et al. (2025) Extra - Ahmed et al. (2026)

Week 2 - Differential Privacy Basics I

Jan 28
Introduction to differential privacy (DP)
Reading - Sec. 1.4 of DPAI Book Extra - Sec. 1.4-1.6 of Vadhan
Jan 29
DP - basic composition
Reading - Sec. 3.2 of DPAI Book
Jan 30
HW 0 due