PhD student
I am a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Statistical Science advised by Dr. Jerome Reiter. My current research focus is practical applications of differential privacy and relating differential privacy to statistical disclosure risk metrics. I received a bachelor's degree in mathematics with a concentration in Statistics from Reed College, where my research focused on devising differentially private versions of hypothesis tests.
Appointments and Affiliations
- Duke University, Statistical Science
- John Hope Franklin Center
Contact Information
- Email Address: zekican.kazan@duke.edu
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Education
- Reed College
Research Interests
Practical applications of differential privacy
Relating differential privacy to statistical disclosure risk metrics
Representative Publications
Kazan, Zeki, and Jerry Reiter. “Assessing Statistical Disclosure Risk for Differentially Private, Hierarchical Count Data, with Application to the 2020 US Decennial Census.” Statistica Sinica, October 1, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5705/ss.202022.0187.
Kazan, Zeki, and Jerome Reiter. “Bayesian Inference Under Differential Privacy: Prior Selection Considerations with Application to Univariate Gaussian Data and Regression.” ArXiv, May 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.13801.
Kazan, Zeki, Kaiyan Shi, Adam Groce, and Andrew Bray. “The Test of Tests: A Framework for Differentially Private Hypothesis Testing.” Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning 202 (July 3, 2023): 16131–51.
Kazan, Zeki, and Jerome Reiter. “Prior-itizing Privacy: A Bayesian Approach to Setting the Privacy Budget in Differential Privacy.” ArXiv, June 19, 2023. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.13214.
Couch, Simon, Zeki Kazan, Kaiyan Shi, Andrew Bray, and Adam Groce. “Differentially Private Nonparametric Hypothesis Testing.” CCS ’19: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, November 6, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3319535.3339821.