Emiliano De Cristofaro
@emilianodc.com
Professor at UC Riverside, head of spalab.cs.ucr.edu
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PSA if you’re ever in the LA area, don’t miss Raffis place in Glendale. Worth the detour just for their khoobideh. Wow.
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
PSA if you’re ever in the LA area, don’t miss Raffis place in Glendale. Worth the detour just for their khoobideh. Wow.
Ever struggled with managing your pubs to create an NSF BioSketch using MyNCBI's My Bibliography? I think I have finally found a decent way to handle stuff, sharing in case it helps... (Step 5 is the one that took me the longest!)
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August 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Ever struggled with managing your pubs to create an NSF BioSketch using MyNCBI's My Bibliography? I think I have finally found a decent way to handle stuff, sharing in case it helps... (Step 5 is the one that took me the longest!)
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
📣 Upcoming CCS'25 paper 📣
The Importance of Being Discrete: Measuring the Impact of Discretization in End-to-End Differentially Private Synthetic Data
We investigate the critical yet overlooked role of discretization in end-to-end differentially private (DP) tabular synthetic data generation
The Importance of Being Discrete: Measuring the Impact of Discretization in End-to-End Differentially Private Synthetic Data
We investigate the critical yet overlooked role of discretization in end-to-end differentially private (DP) tabular synthetic data generation
July 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
📣 Upcoming CCS'25 paper 📣
The Importance of Being Discrete: Measuring the Impact of Discretization in End-to-End Differentially Private Synthetic Data
We investigate the critical yet overlooked role of discretization in end-to-end differentially private (DP) tabular synthetic data generation
The Importance of Being Discrete: Measuring the Impact of Discretization in End-to-End Differentially Private Synthetic Data
We investigate the critical yet overlooked role of discretization in end-to-end differentially private (DP) tabular synthetic data generation
Huge congrats to @spalab.cs.ucr.edu's Georgi Ganev for receiving the Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE S&P for his work "The Inadequacy of Similarity-based Privacy Metrics: Privacy Attacks against “Truly Anonymous” Synthetic Datasets."
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2312.051...
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2312.051...
May 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Huge congrats to @spalab.cs.ucr.edu's Georgi Ganev for receiving the Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE S&P for his work "The Inadequacy of Similarity-based Privacy Metrics: Privacy Attacks against “Truly Anonymous” Synthetic Datasets."
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2312.051...
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2312.051...
Georgi's paper, Understanding the Impact of Data Domain Extraction on Synthetic Data Privacy, will be presented at the ICLR SynthData workshop next week.
A "tiny" paper studying the impact of how you extract the data domain from tabular datasets while training generative models for synthetic data.
A "tiny" paper studying the impact of how you extract the data domain from tabular datasets while training generative models for synthetic data.
April 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Georgi's paper, Understanding the Impact of Data Domain Extraction on Synthetic Data Privacy, will be presented at the ICLR SynthData workshop next week.
A "tiny" paper studying the impact of how you extract the data domain from tabular datasets while training generative models for synthetic data.
A "tiny" paper studying the impact of how you extract the data domain from tabular datasets while training generative models for synthetic data.
Just the energy we needed to get the day started in this beautiful place!
March 10, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Just the energy we needed to get the day started in this beautiful place!
Not an urban legend — the sausage vending machine near the Schloss Dagstuhl exists! And they seem very successful too as it’s almost empty! Just outside a small backerei in the middle of nowhere. When in a Germany…
March 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Not an urban legend — the sausage vending machine near the Schloss Dagstuhl exists! And they seem very successful too as it’s almost empty! Just outside a small backerei in the middle of nowhere. When in a Germany…
On my way to NDSS on the most amazing train. See y’all in a bit.
February 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
On my way to NDSS on the most amazing train. See y’all in a bit.
Waiting for S&P reviewers to respond to our rebuttal
February 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Waiting for S&P reviewers to respond to our rebuttal
I couldn't sleep last night.
February 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I couldn't sleep last night.
The adjective sounds very superfluous
February 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The adjective sounds very superfluous
TL;DR:
- We analyze 6 implementations of PATE-GAN, including 3 by the original authors.
- None reproduce the utility reported in the original paper
- All implementations leak more privacy than intended
- We uncover 19 privacy violations and 5 other bugs
- We analyze 6 implementations of PATE-GAN, including 3 by the original authors.
- None reproduce the utility reported in the original paper
- All implementations leak more privacy than intended
- We uncover 19 privacy violations and 5 other bugs
February 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
TL;DR:
- We analyze 6 implementations of PATE-GAN, including 3 by the original authors.
- None reproduce the utility reported in the original paper
- All implementations leak more privacy than intended
- We uncover 19 privacy violations and 5 other bugs
- We analyze 6 implementations of PATE-GAN, including 3 by the original authors.
- None reproduce the utility reported in the original paper
- All implementations leak more privacy than intended
- We uncover 19 privacy violations and 5 other bugs
Reposting this here, would love to hear your thoughts!
February 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Reposting this here, would love to hear your thoughts!
What do you mean????
January 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
What do you mean????
Proudly wearing the only publisher that never lets us down.
August 11, 2024 at 6:14 AM
Proudly wearing the only publisher that never lets us down.
November 26, 2023 at 5:24 PM
Happy Thanksgiving y’all! I’m definitely grateful to everyone who helped me get back to California :)
November 23, 2023 at 10:03 PM
Happy Thanksgiving y’all! I’m definitely grateful to everyone who helped me get back to California :)
Sunday morning autumn Irvine run
October 15, 2023 at 3:26 PM
Sunday morning autumn Irvine run
“Mandatory” first day of teaching campus picture, really love UCR at this time in the afternoon.
October 3, 2023 at 11:27 PM
“Mandatory” first day of teaching campus picture, really love UCR at this time in the afternoon.
Cloudy Irvine morning run
September 13, 2023 at 2:53 PM
Cloudy Irvine morning run
The final version of our upcoming IEEE S&P paper "BadVFL: Backdoor Attacks in Vertical Federated Learning" is now on arXiv
arxiv.org/abs/2304.08847
arxiv.org/abs/2304.08847
August 25, 2023 at 6:06 PM
The final version of our upcoming IEEE S&P paper "BadVFL: Backdoor Attacks in Vertical Federated Learning" is now on arXiv
arxiv.org/abs/2304.08847
arxiv.org/abs/2304.08847
Mandatory new office pictures
August 10, 2023 at 7:56 PM
Mandatory new office pictures