{"610064":{"#nid":"610064","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Professor Rachel Cummings Wins Fellowship and Dissertation Honorable Mention","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0026rsquo;s been a busy summer for\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003ERachel Cummings, Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech faculty member. \u0026nbsp;Along with earning a prestigious fellowship, the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering assistant professor has been recognized for a recent paper.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECummings, whose research interests lie primarily with data privacy, algorithmic economics, optimization, connections to machine learning, information theory, and statistics, begins \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/simons.berkeley.edu\/programs\/privacy2019\u0022\u003EThe Simons-Berkeley Fellowship in Data Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E next January at the University of California, Berkeley\u0026rsquo;s Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program works to foster new collaborations between researchers who focus on the theoretical aspects of data privacy and those who work in areas where the theory could practically be applied. With several large data breaches in the past few years (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/apr\/08\/facebook-to-contact-the-87-million-users-affected-by-data-breach\u0022\u003EFacebook\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-switch\/wp\/2018\/03\/01\/equifax-keeps-finding-millions-more-people-who-were-affected-by-its-massive-data-breach\/?noredirect=on\u0022\u003EEquifax,\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/21\/business\/dealbook\/wells-fargo-confidential-data-release.html\u0022\u003EWells Fargo\u003C\/a\u003E just to name a few), the need for new technology and ways of thinking about data privacy is much needed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECummings and her co-fellows will spend the semester researching basic privacy-related statistical, algorithmic, and game-theoretic questions. They will also explore methodologies for bridging gaps that exist between approaches to privacy that are related to law, ethics, and social norms versus mathematics-based approaches. The fellows will also study barriers that prevent theoretical privacy research from being implemented and what solutions can be created to overcome these barriers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to her fellowship, Cummings received the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sigecom.org\/awardd.html\u0022\u003EACM SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention\u003C\/a\u003E for her 2017 doctoral dissertation titled, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/thesis.library.caltech.edu\/10104\/9\/CummingsRachelPhDThesis2017.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Implications of Privacy-Aware Choice\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. The award recognizes an \u0026ldquo;outstanding dissertation in the field of economics and computation\u0026rdquo; and was chosen by a panel of judges from Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pennsylvania, and Microsoft Research New England. The award was presented at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sigecom.org\/ec18\/\u0022\u003E19th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation\u003C\/a\u003E in June at Cornell University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECummings is teaching supply chain economics at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s campus this fall.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERachel Cummings wins a prestigious fellowship and an honorable mention for her doctoral thesis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Rachel Cummings wins a prestigious fellowship and an honorable mention for her doctoral thesis."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2018-08-21 13:56:46","changed_gmt":"2018-08-22 18:16:18","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-08-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-08-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"610193":{"id":"610193","type":"image","title":"ISyE Assistant Professor Rachel Cummings","body":null,"created":"1534961749","gmt_created":"2018-08-22 18:15:49","changed":"1534961749","gmt_changed":"2018-08-22 18:15:49","alt":"ISyE Assistant Professor Rachel Cummings","file":{"fid":"232358","name":"Rachel Cummings Headshot_Square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Rachel%20Cummings%20Headshot_Square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Rachel%20Cummings%20Headshot_Square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":247982,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Rachel%20Cummings%20Headshot_Square.jpg?itok=dOnAo9xk"}}},"media_ids":["610193"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"175609","name":"Rachel Cummings"},{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"3366","name":"dissertation"},{"id":"368","name":"Fellowship"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAllie McFadden\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eallison.blinder@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["allison.blinder@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}