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 a Harvard College Professorship, a Simons Investigator Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Vadhan's work with the Berkman Klein Center is centered around the Harvard Privacy Tools Project, which is a broad effort 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. The latest initiative emerging from the Privacy Tools Project is OpenDP, a community effort to build an open-source suite of tools for deploying differential privacy.
