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Ben Jacobsen

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Hi there! I'm a fourth year PhD student at UW-Madison studying Computer Science, with a minor in STS. I'm broadly interested in the social and ethical dimensions of machine learning, but my research particularly focuses on issues of privacy. While much of my time is spent designing and proving theorems about systems that satisfy formal privacy definitions, I'm also very interested in understanding the ways that these mathematical formalisms succeed or fail in matching up with the real-world values that we ultimately care about.