I am the Angel Jordan Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. I have a courtesy appointment in the Computer Science Department and am a part of CyLab. My group’s research focus is on the security and privacy implications of data transparency and sharing. As part of this focus, my research interests span the algorithmic and theoretical foundations of distributed systems, machine learning, and privacy-enhancing technologies. I am also a co-director of CyLab-Africa/the Upanzi Network alongside Assane Gueye, and a co-director of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts.

News

• 6/6/24: Congratulations to Charlie Hou and collaborators (Akshat Shrivastava, Hongyuan Zhan, Rylan Conway, Trang Le, Adithya Sagar, and Daniel Lazar) for being recognized for our work on finetuning LLMs on private federated data with synthetic data (Oral presentation at ICML 2024, honorable mention for best paper award @ ICLR 2024 PML Workshop)
• 3/28/24: I am honored to join the UN’s Digital Public Infrastructure Safeguards Working Group, working on guidelines for the responsible deployment of DPI
• 2/1/24: Thank you to the NSF for a CAREER Award on privacy and utility metrics for enterprise data sharing
• 8/28/23: Congratulations to Karen Sowon for being named an EECS Rising Star!
• 8/21/23: Congratulations to Mingxun Zhou for being named a 2023 CyLab Presidential Fellow!
• 5/25/22: New blog post from Weizhao Tang about our work (with Lucianna Kiffer and Ari Juels) on Strategic Latency Reduction in Blockchain Peer-to-Peer Networks
• 5/12/2022: I am honored to receive the SIGMETRICS Rising Star Award for 2022.
• 5/29/2022: I am thrilled to join the Atlantic Council as a Senior Fellow.

Short Bio

Giulia Fanti is the Angel Jordan Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests span the security, privacy, and efficiency of distributed systems. She is a two-time fellow of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cybersecurity and a member of NIST’s Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board. She is a co-director of CyLab-Africa and the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts. Her work has been recognized with several awards, including best paper awards, a Sloan Fellowship, an Intel Rising Star Faculty Award, and an ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Award. She obtained her Ph.D. in EECS from U.C. Berkeley and her B.S. in ECE from Olin College of Engineering.