Nitin Agrawal

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Snap

Privacy Engineer

Nitin is a Privacy Engineer at Snap Inc., where he specializes in the intersection of emerging privacy-enhancing technologies for AI and data protection. In his previous role as an Applied Scientist at Amazon, Nitin contributed to enhancing privacy measures for Alexa.



As a Commonwealth Scholar, Nitin completed his doctoral degree from the University of Oxford, focusing on privacy-preserving and equitable machine learning. His research and engineering work revolves around privacy-aware machine learning and conducting meticulous privacy audits for machine learning models. Nitin actively dedicates his efforts to designing secure private computing protocols, employing PETs such as Secure Multi-Party Computation, Federated Learning, and Homomorphic Encryption.



A passionate advocate for responsible data practices, Nitin frequently shares his insights as a speaker at industry events. Through his relentless pursuit of innovation and commitment to safeguarding user privacy, Nitin continues to make significant contributions to the field of privacy-aware machine learning. 



 

Contributions by Nitin Agrawal

  • Privacy Superheroes: The Power of a Workforce Capable of Managing Privacy Risk
    Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2023
  • Privacy Design Patterns for AI systems: Threats and Protections
    Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2023