Is Your Data Safe? Corruption, Money Laundering, and the Malicious Side of Data
Eric William Davis R.
Wednesday, 04 Apr 2018 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Eric William Davis R. will discuss the challenges of protecting the integrity of data collection, analytics, and machine learning in our data-driven world. He is an assistant professor of computer science at Iowa State and the director of the Trustworthy Data Engineering Laboratory. He will share examples from such partners as the World Bank and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in which data collection or the analytics process was intentionally manipulated to avoid regulatory oversite, sanctions, or investigation. The TRUST Lab is leading important research on cybersecurity counter measures to this increasingly common threat of data tampering. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Lecture SeriesEric William Davis has been named a Frontiers of Engineering Education Faculty Member by the National Academy of Engineering, an IBM Doctoral Fellow, and an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago (twice). He earned his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he worked on applications in fault-tolerance and security with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications for the first sustained Petascale supercomputer, Blue Waters.College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Dean's Lecture Series
Cosponsored By:
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Computer Science
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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