April 13, 2026
Zheng, Hu, and Mishra receive top honors at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium
Ye Zheng, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student, along with Assistant Professor Yidan Hu and Professor Sumita Mishra from the Department of Cybersecurity, received top honors at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium. Their 2026 paper, “Quantifying Classifier Utility under Local Differential Privacy,” was honored with the Best Student Paper Award. The group also received the Best Artifact Runner-Up Award, recognizing code or data associated with a research paper, for their 2025 work “Optimal Piecewise-based Mechanism for Collecting Bounded Numerical Data under Local Differential Privacy.”
