Thomas Humphries

News

November 2026

I will be starting a new position as a Lecturer in Computer Science at the Univeristy of Sydney!

June 2026

New paper on arXiv about clustering with private evolution

April 2026

I will present our work on interpeting the error of private median queries at TPDP 2026 in Boston.

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Welcome!

I am an incoming Lecturer in the School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney. Before this, I was a PhD Candidate at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Florian Kerschbaum, working in the Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Lab.

I received my Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo with Florian Kerschbaum. Before that, I obtained my Bachelor of Science Degree with a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science from Brandon University. I have interned with Microsoft Research twice in both Cambridge and Redmond.

My research focuses on preserving privacy in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science. Specifically, I focus on enabling the deployment of systems with meaningful privacy guarantees through strategic algorithmic design to improve privacy trade-offs and careful auditing to expose privacy oversights. My research spans the fields of evolutionary algorithms, differential privacy, and secure computation. To learn more about my research, check out my publications page!


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