David Sidi

I am a PhD candidate in the Information program at The University of Arizona (that's me on the left).

david sidi

UA NetID: dsidi
Email: my netid followed by '@email.arizona.edu' (GPG KEY)
Office: HARV 454 and 456
Projects Page: Privacy Working Group

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
-- Calvin Coolidge

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
-- Pudd'nhead Wilson (Following the Equator)

This semester I am actively working on projects on automated privacy technologies (in collaboration with several students) and on notice technology to combat industrialized shoulder-surfing. I am not actively working on sensitive surveys and transparency for data brokers (though I am still interested in these areas).

I have previously advised student projects on automatic filtering of video content for the presence of minors, and on the security properties of the Katzenpost mixnet.

I try to always have interesting opportunities to offer graduate and undergraduate students who want to work on privacy enhancing technologies. If you are interested, please contact me.

I am not teaching Information Privacy with Applications this Fall. If you are interested in learning about Privacy Technology and security, please reach out by email about independent research credit. (The Information Privacy course will be back Fall 2021).

In Spring 2020 I was TA for ISTA 450/INFO 550: Artificial Intelligence. In Fall 2018 I taught eSoc 488: Information Privacy with Applications.
Last summer I taught ISTA 130: Introduction to Python Programming.
In Spring 2018 I was a TA for ISTA 450 / INFO 550: Artificial Intelligence, and for ISTA 130: Introduction to Python Programming.
In Fall 2017 I taught eSoc 488: Information Privacy with Applications.

CUES Spanning Boundaries Challenge (Fall 2020- Spring 2021) - Part of a team developing two campuswide competitions and three integrated courses relating privacy and socially-aware quantitative intuition.
Privacy and Statistical Databases (PSD 2020) (September 2020) - Estimating plausible deniability with simulated attack on released data.
Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE 2020) (July 2020) - Hackers and the Arms Race for Privacy.
Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2019) (June 2019)
AAAI 2019 Privacy-Enhancing Artificial Intelligence and Language Technologies (March 2019) - Poster: Secure Anonymous Reporting of Age Complaints in Video with Automated Verification
Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2018) (May 2018) - Presented on a notice infrastructure to combat automated shoulder surfing threats.
Third Annual Digital Information Policy Scholars Conference (April 2018) - Did not attend due to illness
Interviewed on blockchain technologies, the hope and the hype (February 2018)
Quick Talk for "Love your Data Week" on how good companies become honeypots. (Title: "Sinon's Reflections on Trusting Trust") (February 2018)
Moderated Data Privacy Day Panel Discussion (January 2018)
Talk at Research Roundtable at George Mason (December 2017)
Lightning talk at TPRC (September 2017)
Lightning talk at AMCIS (August 2017)
Demo at SOUPS (July 2017)
Quick Talk at the IT Summit on campus on Oct 18 2016

Quick talk on why privacy protections improve data quality.
Moderating discussion with Emma Llansó Oct. 27th 2016
Technical paper at AAAI 2016 (now on arXiv)
Here's my abstract from the 2014 meeting of the JMM.