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.
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
Finished Internship at TikTok, bulit an online advertising measurement system under user-level differential privacy, Summer 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
KDD 23, NeurIPS 23 24, ICML 23, AISTATS 24