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Dr. Mi Jung Park is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC), part of the Faculty of Science. She is also a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Amii. Her research focuses on privacy-preserving machine learning, particularly differential privacy, synthetic data generation, and their applications in healthcare. She holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, supervised by Dr. Jonathan Pillow, and has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Amsterdam and University College London.
Education:
- PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2016)
- Master's, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2012)
- Bachelor's, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea (2009)
Research Interests: Her lab develops methods to balance privacy and accuracy in data analysis, emphasizing differential privacy's role in healthcare. Key areas include:
- Generating synthetic data with privacy guarantees
- Integrating fairness, interpretability, and causality into privacy-preserving models
- Bayesian techniques for model compression and uncertainty estimation
Recent Work Trends: Her publications explore differential privacy in generative models (e.g., diffusion models, kernel methods) and neural network pruning. Recent work highlights privacy-preserving techniques for image classification, latent diffusion, and perceptual feature integration.
Awards: Canada CIFAR AI Chair (2021).
Advising & Grants: Supervises postdocs (e.g., Mingyu Kim), master's students (e.g., Amman Yusuf), and PhD candidates (e.g., Margarita Vinaroz). Her research is supported by the CIFAR AI Chair program and collaborations with institutions like the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.
Labs & Teams: Leads the Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Lab at UBC, advancing technologies to protect sensitive healthcare data while enabling clinical and research use.
