Public Clouds offer a convenient way for storing and sharing the large amounts of medical data that are generated by, for example, wearable health monitoring devices. Nevertheless, using a public infrastructure raises significant security and privacy concerns. Even if the data are stored in an encrypted form, the data owner should share some information with the Cloud provider in order to enabl...

A rticle 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights protects the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. In the US, the First Amendment to the Constitution similarly protects freedom of association: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right o...

A growing number of companies are extracting value from the digital data produced by our modern society using Machine learning (ML) techniques. Most of these companies rely today on centralized or tightly coupled ML systems hosted in data centers or in the cloud [5, 6]. This is problematic as this concentration poses strong risks to the privacy of users, and limits the scope of ML applications ...

This research focuses on building foundational algorithms for scheduling agents that assist people in managing their activities in environments where tempo and complex activity interdependencies outstrip people’s cognitive capacity. We address the critical challenge of reasoning over individuals’ interacting schedules to efficiently answer queries about how to meet scheduling goals while respec...