Abhishek Singh
I am a Ph.D. student at the MIT Media Lab. My research interests include - Distributed Machine Learning and Data Privacy (Both Statistical and Cryptographic techniques). My current focus is on building Decentralized and Self-organizing Machine Learning. You can find my CV here
personal info
name: Abhishek Singh
E-mail: tremblerz@gmail.com
Who am i?
I am a soul in a physical emodiment who is unravelling deep mystical secrets of universe warped in time and hidden in oblivion. Jokes apart, I am a third year graduate student(two years of MS and 1st year of Ph.D. now) at the Camera Culture group at MIT Media Lab with Prof. Ramesh Rasksar as my Advisor.
What is my research?
Can we build a model for global warming if we use smartphone data from every individual on the planet? Can we prevent the next pandemic if every individual share their health data with healthcare providers? Can we design the drugs for various diseases at a 100x faster rate if all pharma companies share their data with each other?
Today, we do not dare to ask such questions because it requires collaboration and trust between untrusted parties. The goal of my research is to enable a data driven ecosystem where individuals and organizations do not have to trust each other for collaboration.
To accomplish this I am designing data sharing and machine learning algorithms that try to reduce or eliminate the dichotomy between privacy and utility.
A majority of the data exists in silos due to privacy, trust and other reasons. Some of the algorithms I aim to develop will unlock these silos and can advance the progress in many scientific and societal endeavors. It could potentially allow us to answer the questions we are not even thinking about right now.
