Welcome to my site. I’m Roy Rinberg. I’m interested in ways to use technology for positive social change - most recently, I’m interested in privacy technology. I’m currently a Harvard PhD student, working with Professor Seth Neel and Professor Salil Vadhan on “Trustworthy” Machine Learning.

Being helpful

I enjoy communicating my work and talking with individuals who want to learn more about computer science research and academia. As someone who pivoted from industry to academia, I’m particularly sympathetic to the difficulties in such a transition; so especially if you’re in industry and trying to enter academia, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

I also help Ukrainian students applying to universities here through a very well-run organization: MentorUkraine.

I maintain:

• This google sheet of Academic Privacy researchers in North America
• This Resource List for Working in Public-Interest Technology

Communities/groups I have been a part of

I created and organize the group Technically Private; a group of mostly graduate students across many universities, who talk about Privacy and Security. If you’re interested in joining - send a request to the above link.

Previously, I was a Master’s student at Columbia, conducting research with Professor Rachel Cummings and Professor Steven Bellovin on Private Machine Learning. And before that I worked at Ouster, a lidar company, as a software engineer.

Writing:

I’m a big proponent of learning in public. I sometimes write about public-interest tech and privacy on substack or Medium.

My hobbies:

1. Reading (or honestly, listening to audiobooks).
2. I’d like to write more, so… writing!
3. Drone Photography
4. Frisbee Climbing Triathloning
5. Collecting a list of how organizations advertise privacy (if you have more, please send them to me!)