Giulia Fanti
Angel Jordan Associate Professor
Studies privacy-preserving and secure machine learning, synthetic data generation and distributed systems such as blockchains.
Giulia Fanti's lab at CMU works on trustworthy & safe ML and distributed, cloud & edge systems. 34 papers since 2023, 22 at top venues, mostly NeurIPS and CCS. 4 PhD students. 24 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 9/ year
- at T1 venues
- 65%
- PhD students
- 4
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 24
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 6 papers2026 · T1 5 · collecting
- 12 papers2025 · T1 9
- 12 papers2024 · T1 7
- 4 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: NeurIPS, CCS, ICLR, ICML, TMLR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Distributed, cloud & edge systems2 papers
- synthetic data2 papers
- synthetic2 papers
- Trustworthy & safe ML0 papers
- secure0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20266 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)Black-Box Inference of LLM Architectural Properties with Restrictive API Access
- NeurIPS (T1)Do Language Models Need Sleep? Offline Recurrence for Improved Online Inference
- NeurIPS (T1)Smooth Partial Lotteries for Stable Randomized Selection
- ISIT ; EntropyStatistic Maximal Leakage
- CHI (T1)User Experiences with Third-Party SIM Cards and ID Registration in Kenya and Tanzania
- NeurIPS (T1)Value-Based Pre-Training with Downstream Feedback
202512 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)A Principled Approach to Randomized Selection under Uncertainty
- KDD (T1)Benchmarking Fraud Detectors on Private Graph Data
- TMLR (T1)Characterizing the Training Dynamics of Private Fine-tuning with Langevin diffusion
- SOUPSDesign and Evaluation of Privacy-Preserving Protocols for Agent-Facilitated Mobile Money Services in Kenya
- SIGMETRICSGame Theoretic Liquidity Provisioning in Concentrated Liquidity Market Makers
- WWW (T1)Inferentially Private Private Information
- ICLR (T1)Pacmann: Efficient Private Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
- ICML (T1)POPri: Private Federated Learning using Preference-Optimized Synthetic Data
- NeurIPS (T1)Private Evolution Converges
- AFTStrategic Analysis of Just-In-Time Liquidity Provision in Concentrated Liquidity Market Makers
- NeurIPS (T1)Struct-Bench: A Benchmark for Differentially Private Structured Text Generation
- ICLR (T1)Truncated Consistency Models
202412 papers
- PPAI Workshop @ AAAIBenchmarking Private Population Data Release Mechanisms: Synthetic Data vs. TopDown
- CCS (T1)CONAN: Distributed Proofs of Compliance for Anonymous Data Collection
- NeurIPS (T1)Data distribution valuation
- NeurIPS (T1)Improving the Training of Rectified Flows
- CCS (T1)Instance-optimal Clipping for Summation Problems in the Shuffle Model of Differential Privacy
- AISTATS (T1)Mixture-of-Linear-Experts for Long-term Time Series Forecasting
- ICML (T1)PrE-Text: Training Language Models on Private Federated Data in the Age of LLMs
- TMLR, ICML MFPL WorkshopPretrained deep models outperform GBDTs in Learning-To-Rank under label scarcity
- SOUPSPrivacy Requirements and Realities of Digital Public Goods
- AFT ; Implementation; Simulation codeRaft-Forensics: High Performance CFT Consensus with Accountability for Byzantine Faults
- JSAIT, Special Issue on Trustworthy MLSummary Statistic Privacy in Data Sharing
- S&P (T1)The Role of User-Agent Interactions on Mobile Money Practices in Kenya and Tanzania
20234 papers
- SIGMETRICSBatching of Tasks by Users of Pseudonymous Forums: Anonymity Compromise and Protection
- Temporal Graph Learning Workshop @ NeurIPSGen-T: Reduce Distributed Tracing Operational Costs Using Generative Models
- SIGMETRICS ; geth client code; simulation codeStrategic Latency Reduction in Blockchain Peer-to-Peer Networks
- TMLR (T1)Towards a Defense against Backdoor Attacks in Continual Federated Learning
Where alumni went24 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 6
Also to
- Carnegie Mellon University
- HKUST
- Princeton University
Apply to CMUFall 2027
CMU SCS Computer Science PhD
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- Single round
- Opens
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- English
- TOEFL / IELTS / Duolingo (F-1/J-1 non-native speakers)
- Fee
- USD 100 (USD 80 by early deadline)
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