Ryan Steed

Ryan Steed

I am a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems & Public Policy and Machine Learning Department, advised by Alessandro Acquisti.

I evaluate ethics and privacy in algorithmic systems to help improve tech governance.

I am currently on the job market! I plan to graduate in 2025.

Research

Working Papers

News

I’m presenting a poster at TPDP & giving a talk at the OpenDP Community Meeting DP Beyond Algorithms Workshop this week — stop by and see our work on census privacy and DP adoption.

08/18/2024

Our work on the adoption of privacy-preserving analytics received the George Duncan Award for Best Second Research Paper at Heinz College.

05/10/2024

I’ll be presenting our work on privacy-preserving analytics at the NBER Conference on Data Privacy Protection and the Conduct of Applied Research May 16-17.

05/10/2024

I’m presenting our work on the landscape of AI auditing at SaTML, where we received a Distinguished Paper award!

04/10/2024

I’ll be presenting our work-in-progress on privacy-preserving analytics adoption Sep. 11-12 at PEPR.

07/31/2023