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Information regarding the final exam

Written on 05.08.19 by Ahmed Salem

Dear all,

The similar patient query part of the last lecture will not be included in the final exam, enjoy!.

Thanks,

Ahmed

Final exam location

Written on 30.07.19 by Ahmed Salem

Dear All,

Unless it's further indicated, the exam will take place in room 0.01

Thanks and Goodluck!,

Ahmed

Project presentation location

Written on 29.07.19 by Ahmed Salem

Dear All,

The presentations will take place in room 0.01.

Thanks,

Ahmed

Project presentation time

Written on 27.07.19 by Ahmed Salem

Dear all,

The project presentation will be on July 30th at 1 pm. The order of presentation will be decided on site.

Best wishes,

Ahmed

REMINDER: Presentation on July 30th

Written on 13.07.19 by Rui YE

Dear all,

The project presentation will be on July 30th. The venue will be announced on the lecture on July 22nd. Every team has 12 mins presentation and 3 mins Q&A.

Best wishes,

Rui

No PETs class next Monday, July 15th

Written on 13.07.19 by Rui YE

Dear all,

The Q&A class next Monday, July 15th, is postponed to July 22nd. Because Yang and Ahmed are both going to the conference.

Best wishes,

Rui

chapter 9 slides

Written on 08.07.19 by Yang Zhang

dear all,

chapter 9 slides are up!

Cheers,

Yang

chapter 8 slides

Written on 01.07.19 by Yang Zhang

Dear all,

chapter 8 slides are up!

Cheers

Yang

Final exam date

Written on 01.07.19 by Ahmed Salem

Dear all,

Please use the following doodle to reserve your final exam slot. You can only pick one slot, and it is first come first serve, so make sure to reserve your slot as soon as possible!.

https://doodle.com/poll/6as85u32yapa5w7y

Thanks,

Ahmed

chapter 7 slides

Written on 24.06.19 by Yang Zhang

Dear all,

chapter 7 slides are up!

Cheers,

Yang

chapter 6 slides

Written on 17.06.19 by Yang Zhang

Dear all,

chapter 6 slides are up!

Yang

Outstanding Pets projects from last year

Written on 14.06.19 by Rui YE

Dear all,

If you are wondering what the work is expected in the project, I have an outstanding Pets project from last year for you to refer. Feel free to contact me (rui.ye@cispa.saarland) for it.

Best wishes,

Rui

pets project deadline

Written on 06.06.19 by Yang Zhang

Dear all,

the deadline for pets project is July 31st, 11pm.

You should submit your project report and code.

We will also have a pets project presentation, this is scheduled on July 19th (The concrete time slot will be discussed during the next lecture).

Every team will have a 15 mins time… Read more

Dear all,

the deadline for pets project is July 31st, 11pm.

You should submit your project report and code.

We will also have a pets project presentation, this is scheduled on July 19th (The concrete time slot will be discussed during the next lecture).

Every team will have a 15 mins time (12 mins presentation + 3 mins Q&A).

Many thanks!

Yang

Project Proposals

Written on 06.06.19 by Ahmed Salem

Dear All,

All the project proposals have been reviewed, if you didn't get any response from us please contact us!.

Thanks,

Ahmed

chapter 5 slides

Written on 03.06.19 by Yang Zhang

Dear all,

chapter 5 slides are up (since 5 hours ago..)

I forgot to send the news..

Cheers,

Yang

oral exam time changed

Written on 29.05.19 by Yang Zhang

Dear all,

we changed the oral exam time to August 14th. Venue: 0.01, E9.1

Many thanks!

Yang

chapter 4 slides

Written on 27.05.19 by Yang Zhang

slides for our chapter 4 lecture can be found in information material.

Yang

Regarding the project

Written on 13.05.19 by Ahmed Salem

Dear all,

Regarding the project, please prepare a single page pdf document indicating the following:

Members of the group.
What are you planning to do?
What datasets are you planning to use?

Please make sure to send us this document before you start the project, to get… Read more

Dear all,

Regarding the project, please prepare a single page pdf document indicating the following:

Members of the group.
What are you planning to do?
What datasets are you planning to use?

Please make sure to send us this document before you start the project, to get our feedback on the idea.

Thanks!,

Ahmed

Python notebook

Written on 13.05.19 by Ahmed Salem

https://www.kaggle.com/ahmedsalem0/pets-pytorch-tut?scriptVersionId=14108377

Bring your laptop tomorrow

Written on 12.05.19 by Rui YE

Dear all,

We are going to give a lecture on Pytorch tomorrow. It will help a lot with your project and your understanding of how machine learning works.

Bring your laptop with you tomorrow so that you install the environment for programming.

Best wishes,

Rui

semester project topic

Written on 06.05.19 by Yang Zhang

Dear all,

please talk with Ahmed (ahmed.salem@cispa.saarland) and Rui (rui.ye@cispa.saarland) for your semester project proposal soon.

Earlier you decide your topic, more fun you will have with data privacy :D

Cheers,

Yang

chapter 2 slides

Written on 06.05.19 by Yang Zhang

slides for our chapter 2 lecture can be found in information material. Yang

REMINDER: No lecture tomorrow

Written on 05.05.19 by Rui YE

Dear all,

As listed in the schedule, there is no lecture on Monday 06.05.2019.

Best wishes,

Rui

google group

Written on 01.05.19 by Yang Zhang

Dear all,

we established a google group for you to communicate with your classmates on projects and course contents.

Please join with the following link.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pets-2019

Many thanks!

Yang

classroom change

Written on 29.04.19 by Yang Zhang

Dear all,

today's lecture will happen in 0.01 at cispa. You will see a sign when entering the building.

Many thanks!

Yang

Some advice on semester project

Written on 28.04.19 by Yang Zhang

Dear all,

https://cms.cispa.saarland/pets/2/Semester_Project

contains information about the semester project, please have a look.

Cheers,

Yang

Final exam date

Written on 26.04.19 by Ahmed Salem

Dear all,

The final exam will take place on July 30th.

Cheers,

Ahmed

chapter 1 slides

Written on 15.04.19 by Yang Zhang

Dear all,

slides for chapter 1 are uploaded under information/material.

Cheers,

Yang

Schedule is up

Written on 09.04.19 by Yang Zhang

Dear all,

the schedule of the course is up.

Cheers,

Yang

lecture kick-off

Written on 05.04.19 by Yang Zhang

Dear all,

our lecture will start on April 15th.

Cheers,

Yang

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Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Overview

This course will cover the topic of data privacy from four aspects.

Social network privacy
Location privacy
Machine learning privacy
Biomedical privacy

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of machine learning and data mining
Python
Security background is not needed

Logistics

Location: E9 1, Lecture hall

Lecturers: Yang Zhang

Assistants: Rui Ye (rui.ye@cispa.saarland), Ahmed Salem (ahmed.salem@cispa.saarland)

Time: Monday, 12:30-14:00

Contact: Yang Zhang (yang.zhang@cispa.saarland)

Office hour: Tuesday, 13:30-16:30; Friday, 13:30-16:30, 3.19, E9.1 (Please send email for an appointment beforehand!)

Google group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pets-2019

Schedule

15/04/2019	Chapter 1	Social Network Privacy: Attribute Inference
22/04/2019	Holiday
29/04/2019	Chapter 2	Social Network Privacy: Graph De-anonymization and New Communication Means
06/05/2019	Yang is traveling
13/05/2019	Chapter 3	Pytorch Introduction (Ahmed Salem and Rui Ye)
20/05/2019	Yang is traveling
27/05/2019	Chapter 4	Machine Learning Privacy: Membership Inference
03/06/2019	Chapter 5	Machine Learning Privacy: Dataset Reconstruction
10/06/2019	Holiday
17/06/2019	Chapter 6	Machine Learning Privacy: Property Inference and Backdoor
24/06/2019	Chapter 7	Machine Learning Privacy: Model Stealing
01/07/2019	Chapter 8	Location Privacy: Unicity, Attribute Inference, and Location Inference
08/07/2019	Chapter 9	Biomedical Privacy: Linking Attack and Membership Inference
15/07/2019	Chapter 10	Q&A

Grading

The course will be graded by 50% oral exam and 50% semester project.

Exam

The exam will take place on August 14th.