Joe Near
He/him
Associate Professor
University of Vermont
Office: E458 Innovation Hall
E-mail: jnear at uvm dot edu
[ CV ]
Research Interests
My research interests include data privacy (especially differential privacy), security (especially secure/verified computation), fairness, programming languages, and machine learning.
Books
Teaching
Graduate Students (advised or co-advised)
Service
Organization
Program Committees
- 2025: CCS, USENIX Security, PETS
- 2024: CCS, AISTATS, PETS
- 2023: CCS, VLDB, TPDP
- 2022: CCS, AISTATS, VLDB, TPDP
- 2021: TPDP
- 2020: TPDP, FCS
Pre-prints
- Differentially Private Learning Needs Better Model Initialization and Self-Distillation
Ivoline C. Ngong, Joseph P. Near, Niloofar Mireshghallah
- MultiChor: Census Polymorphic Choreographic Programming with Multiply Located Values
Mako Bates, Syed Jafri, Joseph P. Near
- We Know I Know You Know; Choreographic Programming With Multicast and Multiply Located Values
Mako Bates, Joseph P. Near
- DT-SIM: Property-Based Testing for MPC Security
Mako Bates, Joseph P. Near
- Improving Utility for Privacy-Preserving Analysis of Correlated Columns using Pufferfish Privacy
Krystal Maughan, Joseph P. Near
- Prediction Sensitivity: Continual Audit of Counterfactual Fairness in Deployed Classifiers
Krystal Maughan, Ivoline C. Ngong, Joseph P. Near
- Secret Sharing Sharing For Highly Scalable Secure Aggregation
Timothy Stevens, Joseph P. Near, Christian Skalka
Recent Publications
- Foldable, Recursive Proofs of Isogeny Computation with Reduced Time Complexity
Krystal Maughan, Joseph P. Near, Christelle Vincent
In IEEE QCE, 2024
(PDF)
- Language-Based Security for Low-Level MPC
Christian Skalka, Joseph P. Near
In PPDP, 2024
(PDF)
- Evaluating the Usability of Differential Privacy Tools with Data Practitioners
Ivoline C. Ngong, Brad Stenger, Joseph P. Near, Yuanyuan Feng
In SOUPS, 2024
(PDF)
- OLYMPIA: A Simulation Framework for Evaluating the Concrete Scalability of Secure Aggregation Protocols
Ivoline C. Ngong, Nicholas Gibson, Joseph P. Near
In IEEE SaTML, 2024
(PDF)
- Contextual Linear Types for Differential Privacy
Matias Toro, David Darais, Chike Abuah, Joseph P. Near, Damian Arquez, Federico Olmedo, Eric Tanter
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 2023
- Solo: A Lightweight Static Analysis for Differential Privacy
Chike Abuah, David Darais, Joseph P. Near
In OOPSLA, 2022
(PDF)
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