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Project title

Quantifying Utility and Privacy Preservation in Synthetic Data

Project leaders

Martin O'Reilly (The Alan Turing Institute) Alison Heppenstall (University of Leeds) Nik Lomax (University of Leeds) Nick Malleson (University of Leeds) Sebastian Vollmer (The Alan Turing Institute, University of Warwick)

Details

Project page main contact

• Contact name: Martin O'Reilly
• Contact email address: <martin's email> Project start date: 01 Oct 2019 Project end date: 31 Mar 2020

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Aims/expected outcomes

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Explaining the science

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Real world applications

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Recent updates

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Sensitivities

Are there likely to be any sensitivities within or around this project? (For example it deals with highly sensitive subject matter such as abuse, violence, grief, etc):

Yes, there are sensitivities / No, there aren't any sensitivities

Participating researchers

Oliver Strickson (The Alan Turing Institute) Louise Bowler (The Alan Turing Institute) Kasra Hoseinni (The Alan Turing Institute) Greg Mingas (The Alan Turing Institute) Camila Rangel-Smith (The Alan Turing Institute)

Collaborating organisations/universities

(Please include their roles as part of the project, e.g. funder, collaborator, data supplier etc) University of Leeds (Collaborator) University of Warwick (Collaborator) UKRI (Funder)

Tagging

If this project is part of a programme(s) please tick below:

• [ ] Artificial intelligence (Safety and ethics)
• [ ] Artificial intelligence (Robotics)
• [ ] Data science at scale
• [ ] Data science for science
• [ ] Data-centric engineering
• [ ] Defence and security
• [ ] Finance and economics
• [ ] Health
• [ ] Policy
• [x] Research Engineering
• [ ] Urban analytics

Is this project funded by the Strategic Priorities Fund?

• Yes

Research areas (required)

(Please tick the research areas that are most applicable, up to max 10)

Algorithms

• [ ] Complexity
• [ ] Compression
• [ ] Cryptography
• [ ] Data Structures
• [ ] Distributed
• [ ] Numerical

Applied Mathematics

• [ ] Dynamical Systems & Differential Equations
• [ ] Information Theory
• [ ] Mathematical Physics
• [ ] Multi-Agent Systems
• [ ] Numerical Analysis
• [ ] Operations Research

Artificial Intelligence

• [ ] Control Theory
• [ ] Evolution & Adaptation
• [ ] Game Theory
• [ ] Knowledge Representation
• [ ] Multi-agent Reasoning
• [ ] Neural Networks
• [ ] Neuroscience
• [ ] Nonlinear Dynamics
• [ ] Pattern Formation
• [ ] Robotics
• [ ] Symbolic systems
• [ ] Systems Theory

Computer Systems & Architecture

• [ ] Communications
• [ ] Computing Networks
• [ ] Databases
• [ ] Human Computer Interface
• [ ] Information Retrieval
• [ ] Neural & Evolutionary Computing
• [ ] Operating Systems
• [ ] Real Time Computing
• [ ] Parallel Computing
• [ ] Visualisation

Machine Learning

• [ ] Applications
• [ ] Computer Vision
• [ ] Deep Learning
• [ ] Natural Language Processing
• [ ] Pattern Recognition
• [ ] Reinforcement Learning
• [ ] Semi-Supervised
• [ ] Speech Recognition
• [ ] Supervised
• [ ] Unsupervised

Mathematical Modelling

• [ ] Agent-based Modelling
• [ ] Automata & Algebraic
• [ ] Deterministic
• [ ] Dynamic/Static
• [ ] Graph Theory
• [ ] Ensemble
• [ ] Stochastic

Optimisation

• [ ] Convex Programming
• [ ] Nonlinear Programming
• [ ] Stochastic Optimisation

Privacy & Trust

• [ ] Cryptography
• [ ] Differential Privacy
• [ ] Identity Management
• [ ] Verification

Programming Languages

• [ ] Hardware Optimisation (FPGA/GPU)
• [ ] Literate Programming
• [ ] Probabilistic Programming
• [ ] Software Framework Development
• [ ] Theory of Programming Languages
• [ ] Visualisation

Social Data Science

• [ ] Cognitive Sicence
• [ ] Data Science of Government & Politics
• [ ] Developmental psychology
• [ ] Ethics
• [ ] Linguistics
• [ ] Management Science
• [ ] Research Methods
• [ ] Social Media
• [ ] Social Networks
• [ ] Social Psychology

Statistical Methods & Theory

• [ ] Asymptotic
• [ ] Causality
• [ ] Estimation Theory
• [ ] High Dimensional Inference
• [ ] Information Theory
• [ ] Modelling
• [ ] Monte Carlo Methods
• [ ] Non-parametric & Semi-parametric Methods
• [ ] Probability
• [ ] Simulation
• [ ] Spatial Analytics
• [ ] Time Series
• [ ] Uncertainty Quantification

Theoretical Mathematics

• [ ] Algebra
• [ ] Calculus & Analysis
• [ ] Combinatorics
• [ ] Geometry & Topology
• [ ] Logic
• [ ] Number Theory

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