Computer Science Colloquium
Friday Sept 29
2:35pm in Wege
On the Challenges of Building Privacy-preserving Chatbot Services
With the recent rise of data-hungry chatbot technology such as ChatGPT, it has become increasingly important that we critically examine its implications from a privacy perspective. In this colloquium, I will discuss my (nascent) research on how we might be able to build privacy into chatbot services to protect users from even the service providers. We will consider a wide variety of ideas from cryptography, differential privacy, natural language processing, anonymous communication schemes, to even the twenty-question game.
Dzung Pham ’20 is a 2nd-year Computer Science PhD student at University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is advised by Professor Amir Houmansadr. His research focuses on developing secure, private, and trustworthy AI/ML algorithms and systems. Prior to his PhD, Dzung completed his B.A. in Computer Science and Statistics at Williams College in 2020, then worked for two years as a Software Engineer catching Marketplace scammers for Meta (Facebook). In his free time, he enjoys playing the classical guitar and speed chess.