Assistant Professor of Statistics, Rutgers University

New Brunswick, NJ
Joined November 2014
Do you want to know the Whats, Whys & the Hows of the U.S. #Census? Check out the latest #HDSRPodcast episode and listen to our conversation with guests @EricaGroshen & @RuobinGong #DifferentialPrivacy @uscensusbureau hdsr.podbean.com/e/different…
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In our special #Census issue @RuobinGong discusses the key statistical considerations behind transparent privacy and weighs a few challenges to transparency that emerge from the @uscensusbureau's adoption of #DifferentialPrivacy for the #2020Census Read: doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.b5d…
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The recipient of our Guy Medal in Bronze this year is Pierre E Jacob. Read the full citation and about the other winners in our news announcement at rss.org.uk/news-publication/… #RSSHonours
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Marcello and I are speaking at ANU's HMI DAIS seminar about our recent work on understanding the ``multiple resolutions'' to algorithmic fairness -- this Wednesday 11/11 @ 5pm US Eastern!
Join us for the eleventh DAIS seminar 'Resolving Algorithmic Fairness' with Ruobin Gong and Marcello Di Bello this Thursday! hmi.anu.edu.au/events-2/hmi-… @anucecs @ANUcass @ANU_Law @ANUBellSchool @anu_philosophy @ASU_SHPRS @RutgersNB
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Our latest issue (2:3) is out and it features a high school student, a comedian, and two presidents among many others from industry and academia! Read it now starting with @XiaoLiMeng1 's editorial #DataScience @harvard_data @mitpress @pubpub hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/9p…
Ruobin (Robin) Gong retweeted
More new data: we just released more demonstration data based on the @uscensusbureau's differentially private algorithm. This release adds 12 additional tables, including races tallied and sex by age by race/ethnicity. nhgis.org/privacy-protected-…
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Our special COVID-19 issue has launched! Read the opening piece by Editor-in-Chief @XiaoLiMeng1 @mitpress @pubpub @harvard_data #datascience #COVID-19 #coronavirus COVID-19: A Massive Stress Test with Many Unexpected Opportunities (for Data Science) hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/l7…
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Ruobin (Robin) Gong retweeted
Thanks again to @walthdempsey for this application, which I used for my ODSC talk. Thanks to @stanford_ai for spreading the word! Random testing takes no more than a very small fraction of the tests — in this case 1/500. The key, however, is to ensure it’s really random! Ideas?
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Today @CMU_Stats mourns the loss of Joyce Fienberg, one of the fatalities in yesterday's Tree of Life synagogue attack. Joyce was the widow of Steve Fienberg and a treasured member of the @CMU_Stats family for almost 40 years. She was much loved and will be deeply missed.