Salil Vadhan is the Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences.
Vadhan’s research in theoretical computer science spans computational complexity, cryptography, and data privacy. His honors include election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Harvard College Professorship, and a Simons Investigator Award,. Together with Gary King, Vadhan leads the OpenDP project, a community effort to build an open-source suite of tools for deploying differential privacy, a methodology for ensuring that AI models and statistical releases based on sensitive datasets do not reveal individual-level information. OpenDP is an outgrowth of the Privacy Tools Project, which was a collaboration with the Berkman-Klein Center to advance a multidisciplinary understanding of data privacy issues and build computational, statistical, legal, and policy tools to help address these issues in a variety of contexts.
