Graded Student Work

Group Project

Students will work on one project in groups of 3-4. The goal is to identify an interesting question/problem in handling individuals' data taking their privacy into account. The topic of the project can be picked by the student groups after discussion with the instructor. Example topics include the incorporation of a Privacy Enhancing Technique to an existing process/domain, analysis of potential privacy leakage in an existing system, etc. You need to justify that the topic is interesting, relevant to the course, of suitable difficulty. A group report shall be submitted per project and each student will need to clearly articulate their concrete contribution in the group project. Each group will present their project to the rest of the class in their allotted final presentation slot.

Mini-critiques

Each student will individually submit a mini-critique for several papers that will be discussed in class. A mini-critique is like a peer-review at a conference and at the very least should have: (i) Summary: Motivation + Problem + Approach + Result, (ii) 3 Strengths, and (iii) 3 Weaknesses. 4 students will be assigned to lead the discussion of each paper. To foster critical thinking, the students will play the “bad/good cop” role and argue the paper’s strengths/weakness to the rest of the class.

If you don’t have experience reviewing papers, the following guides will be very helpful ([1],[2],[3],[4]).