Max Cairney-Leeming
PhD Student @ Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
Hi! I’m a second-year PhD student at ISTA, supervised by Christoph Lampert. I’m working on private machine learning, on topics like differential privacy, auditing and data-dependent privacy. I am interested in finding new tradeoffs between the strictness of worst-case differential privacy and our ability to train larger and more realistic models.
My CV is in desperate need of updating (soon!). My personal projects are linked here.
news
| Sep 15, 2023 | Started my PhD at ISTA! Looking forward to working with 3 different professors over the next year, to broaden my ML horizons, and conversely, to hone in on a topic and affiliation (finding a permanent supervisor) |
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| Aug 5, 2023 | I graduated! I recieved a First (years 1-3; Bachelor’s) and a Distinction (4th year; Master’s) in my integrated MMMathCompSci degree in (jointly) Mathematics and Computer Science. |
| Jun 18, 2023 | I have affiliated with Christoph Lampert at ISTA! Over the next few months, I’ll be working towards the qualifying exam (defending my PhD proposal). |