Krishnan Pillaipakkamnatt

Professor of Computer Science Hofstra University

  • Hempstead NY

Krishnan Pillaipakkamnatt specializes in data mining, machine learning, and computational learning theory.

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Krishnan Pillaipakkamnatt is a professor in the computer science department at Hofstra University. He holds a B.E. in computer engineering (1989) from Andhra University, India and a Ph.D. in computer science (1995) from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. He joined Hofstra as an assistant professor in 1995.

Professor Pillaipakkamnatt's research interests lie in data mining, and machine learning. More narrowly, he is interested in algorithms that preserve an individual's privacy. A second area of research is in the pedagogy of computational thinking. He is part of a multi-disciplinary team that seeks to introduce computational thinking to high school students through app development in STEM courses.

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Education/Learning

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Algorithms
Data Structures
Discrete Mathematics
Operating Systems
Programming
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence

Education

Vanderbilt University

Ph.D.

Computer Science

1995

Indian Institute of Science

M.E.

Computer Science

1990

Andhra University

B.E.

Computer Science

1989

Articles

A Semi-supervised Learning Approach to Differential Privacy

IEEE 13th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW)

2013

Motivated by the semi-supervised model in the data mining literature, we propose a model for differentially-private learning in which private data is augmented by public data to achieve better accuracy. Our main result is a differentially private classifier with significantly improved accuracy compared to previous work. We experimentally demonstrate that such a classifier produces good prediction accuracies even in those situations where the amount of private data is fairly limited. This expands the range of useful applications of differential privacy since typical results in the differential privacy model require large private data sets to obtain good accuracy.

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Communication-Efficient Privacy-Preserving Clustering

Transactions on Data Privacy

2010

The ability to store vast quantities of data and the emergence of high speed networking have led to intense interest in distributed data mining. However, privacy concerns, as well as regulations, often prevent the sharing of data between multiple parties. Privacy-preserving distributed data mining allows the cooperative computation of data mining ...

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A Practical Differentially Private Random Decision Tree Classifier

IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW)

2009

In this paper, we study the problem of constructing private classifiers using decision trees, within the framework of differential privacy. We first construct privacy-preserving ID3 decision trees using differentially private sum queries. Our experiments show that for many data sets a reasonable privacy guarantee can only be obtained via this method at a steep cost of accuracy in predictions. We then present a differentially private decision tree ensemble algorithm using the random decision tree approach. We demonstrate experimentally that our approach yields good prediction accuracy even when the size of the datasets is small. We also present a differentially private algorithm for the situation in which new data is periodically appended to an existing database. Our experiments show that our differentially private random decision tree classifier handles data updates in a way that maintains the same level of privacy guarantee.

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