May 27, 2021
Lixin Gao
Lixin Gao, Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been named a 2021–22 fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, joining an extraordinary group of artists, scientists, scholars and practitioners who will learn from and inspire one another in a year of discovery and interdisciplinary exchange in Cambridge.
Gao, who was named the Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow in the Radcliffe program, will pursue an individual project in a community dedicated to exploration and inquiry.
She will investigate how to perform data analytics on complex networks in a privacy-preserving manner
. Performing analytics on the data is crucial but raises privacy concerns for people and organizations. The key challenge is that there is an underlying or hidden structure in the data that forms a complex network and the network can be exploited to discover private information. The ultimate goal is to gain a substantially better understanding of the capab