I’m Roy Rinberg. I’m interested in public-interest technology - most recently, I’m interested in privacy technology. I’m a Harvard PhD student, advised by 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 young Ukrainian students applying to universities, with MentorUkraine.

I maintain:

• This google sheet of Academic Privacy researchers in North America
• This Resource List for Working in Public-Interest Technology
• Here’s a guide on using Slurm with an associated youtube video

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. Writing, ideally!
2. Drone Photography, but uploading the photos is such a pain
3. Frisbee Climbing Triathloning Bike Polo
4. Collecting a list of how organizations advertise privacy (if you have more, please send them to me!)

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.
• CS Research Master’s at Columbia: I conducted research with Professor Rachel Cummings and Professor Steven Bellovin on Private ML.
• I was an early-stage software engineer for 3 years at Ouster, a lidar company.