UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Ninghui Li, Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science and associate department head at Purdue University, will present “Membership Inference Attacks: History, Recent Progress and Future Directions” at noon on Dec. 3 in E208 Westgate Building at Penn State University Park.
The talk is hosted by the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) as part of its Distinguished Lecture Series, which connects researchers, experts and thought leaders with the Penn State community to share perspectives and insights on a variety of topics at the frontier of information sciences and technology.
Li — whose research interests include security and privacy — will provide an overview of membership inference attacks (MIAs), which assess whether a machine learning model is revealing private information about its training data. The talk will highlight key MIA concepts, recent advances and emerging research directions, as well as the broader privacy implications.
Li holds a doctorate in computer science from New York University. He currently serves as chair of the steering committee for Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Computer and Communications Security and recently served as editor-in-chief for ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS). Li is an ACM fellow and an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers fellow.
IST’s Distinguished Lecture Series aims to enrich the educational experiences of attendees, inspire thought-provoking conversations and collaborations and showcase a diverse array of people, backgrounds and ideas in the information sciences and related fields.
The lecture is free and open to the Penn State community.