Dr. Kristin Lauter, West Coast Director of Research Science for Meta AI Research (FAIR), has been selected to deliver the 2022 I. E. Block Community Lecture. She will be presenting the lecture on Wednesday, July 13 from 6:15-7:15 p.m. ET at the SIAM Annual Meeting (AN22), which is happening in hybrid format July 11-15, 2022 in Pittsburgh, PA. The lecture is open to the public and is named in honor of I. Ed Block, a co-founder of SIAM and its first managing director. If you are not registered for AN22, you can attend the lecture virtually by registering here.
In her current role at Meta AI Research, Dr. Lauter is leading the Seattle and Menlo Park Labs with groups in core machine learning, computer vision, robotics, natural language processing, and other areas. Her research focuses on private AI, homomorphic encryption, and post-quantum cryptography. Dr. Lauter is a mathematician and cryptographer whose research interest is broadly in application of number theory and algebraic geometry in cryptography. She is particularly known for her work in the area of elliptic curve cryptography. She spent 22 years at Microsoft Research as a Principal Researcher and Partner Research Manager of Cryptography and Privacy Research. From 1996-1999, she was an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Lauter holds a B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago (1990, 1991, 1996). She is an elected Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), American Mathematical Society (AMS), Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), as well as an elected Honorary Member of the Royal Mathematical Society of Spain. She was President of the AWM from 2015-2017, is an Affiliate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington, and was awarded the Selfridge Prize in Computational Number Theory in 2008.
In 2012, Dr. Lauter was an invited plenary speaker at the SIAM Annual Meeting. She was elected as a SIAM Fellow in 2020. As AWM President, she coordinated several activities with SIAM, including reciprocal membership, hosting the AWM-SIAM Kovalevsky Lecture, and redesigning the AWM Workshop at the SIAM Annual Meeting. She has been active in the SIAM Activity Group on Algebraic Geometry and served on the Editorial Board of SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry (SIAGA). She is also featured in the SIAM Careers in Applied Mathematics brochure.
Dr. Lauter will give her talk titled Artificial Intelligence & Cryptography: Privacy and Security in the AI era on July 13, 2022 at 6:15 p.m. ET. How is Artificial Intelligence (AI) changing your life and the world? How can you expect your data to be kept secure and private in an AI-driven future? AI is the science of machine learning, or the use of data and computation to build mathematical models capable of making predictions. AI may improve our lives, but without adequate safeguards, AI may also jeopardize the security of our private data. Dr. Lauter's talk will explain Private AI and the dynamic relationship between cryptography and AI. Cryptography is the science of protecting the privacy and security of data. A new form of encryption – based on the mathematics of lattices – secures data while still enabling AI.
The I. E. Block Community Lecture is given each year at the SIAM Annual Meeting and is free and open to the public to attend in person or via livestream. It is intended to encourage public appreciation of the excitement and vitality of science. These lectures should reach out as broadly as possible to students, teachers, and members of the local community, as well as to SIAM members, researchers, and practitioners in fields related to applied and computational mathematics. Learn more about SIAM AN22 and register now.
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