Johes Bater

Johes Bater is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Tufts University's School of Engineering. He joined Tufts in 2022 after postdoctoral research at Duke University's Database Group and a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Northwestern University.

Education

• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (2011) from Stanford University
• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering; Computer Systems (2013) from Stanford University
• Ph.D. in Computer Science (2020) from Northwestern University

Research Focus

Bater's research focuses on privacy-preserving analytics, balancing security, privacy, and utility in trustworthy database systems. His work spans differential privacy, secure computation, and data federation to enable robust distributed analytics with provable guarantees.

Publications & Trends

His publications since 2016 emphasize secure multi-party computation (SMCQL, 2016), differentially private indexing (Longshot, 2023), and privacy-utility trade-offs in federated databases. Key subfields include private data sharing, access pattern security, and incremental computation for outsourced systems.

Awards & Grants

• 2022: Cisco Systems grant for "A Usable and Shareable Tool for Software Threat Modeling"

Teaching & Service

Bater teaches courses like Database Systems, Dissertation Research, and Special Topics in Data Infrastructure. He served on Tufts' CS PhD Admissions Committee (2022) and as a reviewer for the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (2022).