John Abascal

I am a third-year Computer Science PhD Student at Northeastern University, where I am advised by Jonathan Ullman and Alina Oprea. I completed my B.S. in Pure Mathematics at Florida State University and conducted my undergraduate honors thesis under the guidance of Alec Kercheval and Nathan Crock.

My primary research interest is privacy in deep learning. More broadly, I am interested in both theoretical computer science and applied machine learning, including topics such as differential privacy, adversarial machine learning, and the trustworthiness of machine learning algorithms.

I have also held industry positions in both software engineering and data science at Intuit and NewSci Labs, respectively. For the past two summers, I have been an Applied Research Intern on LinkedIn’s Data Privacy team where I work on measuring privacy leakage. 🔒