Start here, not with the papers
The papers answer a researcher's question. A guide answers a student's. One explainer per research thread, written for someone meeting the topic for the first time, with a short reading list of the outside work I point people to.
Differential privacy, in five minutes
Can a system learn what you like without learning who you are?
Sharing a model instead of the patients
Can a hospital share what it learned without sharing who it treated?
Using where you are without recording who you are
Can a service use your position without keeping a history of you?
What a student team can actually build in a semester
What can a model see that a person cannot?
Which privacy methods survive at scale
What did we do before differential privacy, and why did it stop working?
How to use these
Each guide explains one of my five research threads for someone meeting it for the first time, then shows where my own papers fit and what to read next. No guide assumes you have read another.
If you already know the area, skip these and go straight to the research library. If you have a specific question, the ask tool will point you at the paper that answers it.