Deepesh Data
I joined Meta (formerly known as Facebook) as a research scientist in December 2022. Before joining Meta, I was a post doctoral scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from April 2018 to Oct. 2022 with Prof. Suhas Diggavi, and a post doctoral fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) from Sep. 2017 to Feb. 2018 with Prof. Manoj M. Prabhakaran.
Education: My formal education has been in computer science.
Ph.D., M.Sc. (2017): Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai (advisor: Prof. Vinod M. Prabhakaran)
B.Tech. (2011): International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H)
During my Ph.D., I visited Prof. Alon Rosen and Prof. Elette Boyle at the Fact Center in IDC Herzliya, Israel, from Nov. 2015 to May 2016, working on Secure Multiparty Computation.
My CV (last updated: August 14, 2023).
Research Interests: At Meta, I have been working on (Empirical) Differential Privacy. In my post-doc, my research focus was in Federated Learning, specifically, the communication efficiency, (differential) privacy, personalization, and robustness (to malicious/Byzantine clients) aspects of it. In my Ph.D., I worked on problems in Information Theory and Cryptography, particularly in Secure Multi-party Computation (MPC). I continue to maintain interest in all the above-mentioned areas.