You respond to a phone survey. You sign up for a free membership to a Web site. Or, maybe you purchase something online. Your personal information is entered into a database, but it could fall into the wrong hands. Not if Anne-Sophie Charest (DC’08,’12) has her way. She studies differential privacy—an innovative way to protect individual confidentiality with statistical databases using algorithms. She recently won the Edward C. Bryant Scholarship Trust Fund Award—a certificate and monetary prize of $2,500 given annually by the American Statistical Association to an “outstanding graduate student.”
—Elizabeth May
