About Me
My name is Yingtai Xiao, I am a Research Scientist in Privacy Innovation Lab at TikTok. Previously I earned my Ph.D. degree of Computer Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. My advisors are Prof. Daniel Kifer and Prof. Danfeng Zhang.
I received my B.S. degree in Mathematics from University of Science and Technology of China, where I was supervised by Prof. Juyong Zhang. I also visited University of Nanyang Technological University as a research assistant, under the supervision of Dr. Yong Liu.
I’m interested in differential privacy, and it’s applications in database query optimization, advertising measurement and machine learning. For a list of my publications, see Google Scholar.
Activities
I joined the Privacy Innovation Lab at TikTok as a Research Scientist, June 2024
I got a Ph.D. degree of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State, May 2024
One paper got accepted at NeurIPS as a spotlight, September 2023
Finished Internship at TikTok, bulit an online advertising measurement system under user-level differential privacy, Summer 2023
One paper got accepted at VLDB, March 2023
Finished Internship at JD.com, built a three-party multiparty computation framework for deep learning, Summer 2022
Head teaching assistant of CMPSC461 Programming Language Concepts, Fall 2021
One paper got accepted at International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), August 2021
Review Services
TODS 21, KDD 23, NeurIPS 23 24, ICML 23, AISTATS 24