Differential Privacy and Learning

CS 839 · Spring 2026 · UW–Madison

This is the course website for CS 839, Differential Privacy and Learning, offered Spring 2026. This course will focus on the theory of differential privacy, the gold-standard framework for reasoning about privacy in data analysis.

By the end of the class, students will be prepared to conduct research in differentially private statistical inference and optimization.

Quick Facts

Instructor
Gavin Brown
Meetings
Tuesday & Thursday · 1:00–2:15 PM · Morgridge Hall 6618