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Can AI Protect Privacy and Still Explain Its Decisions?

When we train models on sensitive data, we often ask how much accuracy we lose by protecting privacy. But what happens to the explanations? This is the question behind our new paper, Pushing the (Decision) Boundaries, with Michael Khavkin and

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Can AI Protect Privacy and Still Explain Its Decisions?

When we train models on sensitive data, we often ask how much accuracy we lose by protecting privacy. But what happens to the explanations? This is the question behind our new paper, Pushing the (Decision) Boundaries, with Michael Khavkin and

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New paper: Self-Defeating Privacy: Privacy Coins as a Blockchain Liability

We are happy to share that our paper, “Self-Defeating Privacy: Privacy Coins as a Blockchain Liability,” by Danielle Movsowitz Davidow and Eran Toch, has been accepted as a short paper to the 25th Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society

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New paper: Self-Defeating Privacy: Privacy Coins as a Blockchain Liability

We are happy to share that our paper, “Self-Defeating Privacy: Privacy Coins as a Blockchain Liability,” by Danielle Movsowitz Davidow and Eran Toch, has been accepted as a short paper to the 25th Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society

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Honorable Mention at MuC 2026

Excited to share that the submission, “Beyond Manipulation: How Users Perceive Harmful AI Chatbot Interactions,” by Vanessa Budde and Eran Toch, has received a Short Paper Honorable Mention at MuC 2026! 🏆 The paper is available here. As AI chatbots become

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Honorable Mention at MuC 2026

Excited to share that the submission, “Beyond Manipulation: How Users Perceive Harmful AI Chatbot Interactions,” by Vanessa Budde and Eran Toch, has received a Short Paper Honorable Mention at MuC 2026! 🏆 The paper is available here. As AI chatbots become

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Michael Khavkin receiving the Ein-Dor Student Research Award

Congratulations to Michael Khavkin on receiving the Ein-Dor Student Research Award from the Israeli Association for Information Systems (ILAIS). The award recognizes outstanding student research in Information Systems. Michael received the award for his work, “Beyond the Privacy-Utility Trade-Off: How

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Michael Khavkin receiving the Ein-Dor Student Research Award

Congratulations to Michael Khavkin on receiving the Ein-Dor Student Research Award from the Israeli Association for Information Systems (ILAIS). The award recognizes outstanding student research in Information Systems. Michael received the award for his work, “Beyond the Privacy-Utility Trade-Off: How

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Danielle giving a lecture about privacy coins and the Blockchain privacy catch

New lecture: Danielle Movsovitch gave her talk “The Blockchain Privacy Paradox: Users’ Perceptions of Privacy Coins” at the 13th Privacy Conference at Tel Aviv University. The lecture described interviews with cryptocurrency power users and sought to explain why privacy coins

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Danielle giving a lecture about privacy coins and the Blockchain privacy catch

New lecture: Danielle Movsovitch gave her talk “The Blockchain Privacy Paradox: Users’ Perceptions of Privacy Coins” at the 13th Privacy Conference at Tel Aviv University. The lecture described interviews with cryptocurrency power users and sought to explain why privacy coins

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Michael presenting at the School’s Graduate Research Workshop

Michael had presented his research, “Calibrating Differential Privacy Noise in Federated Learning Based on Explainability and Decision-Boundary Signals” at the School of Industrial & Intelligent Systems Engineering Graduate Research Workshop. The research, a collaboration with researchers from Yonsei University in South

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Michael presenting at the School’s Graduate Research Workshop

Michael had presented his research, “Calibrating Differential Privacy Noise in Federated Learning Based on Explainability and Decision-Boundary Signals” at the School of Industrial & Intelligent Systems Engineering Graduate Research Workshop. The research, a collaboration with researchers from Yonsei University in South

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New accepted paper: Differential Privacy Configurations in the Real World: A Comparative Analysis

Exciting news: our paper “Differential Privacy Configurations in the Real World: A Comparative Analysis” was just accepted to IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Another great paper of Michael Khavkin‘s Ph.D.! Preprint is available here. Differential Privacy is the

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New accepted paper: Differential Privacy Configurations in the Real World: A Comparative Analysis

Exciting news: our paper “Differential Privacy Configurations in the Real World: A Comparative Analysis” was just accepted to IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Another great paper of Michael Khavkin‘s Ph.D.! Preprint is available here. Differential Privacy is the

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