Computer Science Distinguished Series
Algorithms for the People
Seny Kamara, Brown University
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Abstract:
Algorithms have transformed every aspect of society, including communication, transportation, commerce, finance, and health. The revolution enabled by computing has been extraordinarily valuable. The largest tech companies generate a trillion dollars a year and employ 1 million people. But technology does not affect everyone in the same way. In this talk, we will examine how new technologies affect marginalized communities and think about what technology, academic research and teaching would look like if its goal was to serve the disenfranchised.
Bio:
Seny Kamara is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. Before joining Brown, he was a researcher at Microsoft Research.
His research is in cryptography and is driven by real-world problems from privacy, security, and surveillance. He has worked extensively on the design and cryptanalysis of encrypted search algorithms, which are efficient algorithms to search on end-to-end encrypted data. He maintains interests in various aspects of theory and systems, including applied and theoretical cryptography, data structures, and algorithms, databases, networking, game theory, and technology policy.
At Brown, he co-directs the Encrypted Systems Lab and the Computing for the People project and is affiliated with the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, the Policy Lab, and the Data Science Initiative.
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