Giulia Fanti

Giulia Fanti

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CMU

I am the Angel Jordan Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. I have courtesy appointments in the Computer Science Department and the Machine Learning 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 the Upanzi Network alongside Moise Busogi, and a co-director of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts.

News

  • 3/19/26: I am visiting the Simons Institute at U.C. Berkeley for their program on “Federated and Collaborative Learning”.
  • 8/15/25: Congratulations to Karen Sowon, Collins Munyendo, Lily Klucinec, Eunice Maingi, Gerald Suleh, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Conrad Tucker, and Assane Gueye for winning the IAPP Privacy SOUPS Award at SOUPS 2025 for our work on designing new protocols for privacy-preserving KYC in mobile money transactions
  • 6/9/25: Congratulations to Weizhao Tang, Rachid El Azouzi, Cheng Han Lee, and Ethan Chan for being finalists for the Best Paper Award at SIGMETRICS 2025 for our work on analyzing game theoretic strategies for liquidity allocation in automated market makers!
  • 4/27/25: Our paper on RL finetuning of LLMs with private, federated data received an honorable mention for the best paper award @ ICLR 2025 Synthetic Data Workshop). Congratulations to Charlie Hou, Mei-Yu Wang (PSC), Yige Zhu, and Daniel Lazar (ColdRays)! Full paper to appear at ICML 2025.

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 has served on the Department of Commerce Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board and as a two-time fellow of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cybersecurity. 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.