Stacy Patterson

I am an Associate Professor and the Associate Head and Graduate Program Director of the Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

I received my PhD in computer science from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2009, where I was a member of the Distributed Systems Lab. My PhD advisor was Professor Amr El Abbadi. From 2009 and 2011, I was a postdoc with Professor Bassam Bamieh at the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation at UCSB, and from 2011 to 2013, I was a postdoc with Professor Idit Keidar in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion. My research interests are in federated learning, edge and cloud computing, and networked control systems.

Recent News

• [August 2023] Our paper Flexible Vertical Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Parties has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. Congratulations Tim!
• [July 2023] We are organizing the Workshop on Federated Learning in the Age of Foundation Models at NeurIPS 2023. Submissions are welcome!
• [June 2023] Our paper “Privacy Tradeoffs in Vertical Federated Learning” received a best paper award at the FLSys Workshop at MLSys 2023. Congratulations Linh!
• [May 2023] Our project “Efficient, Private, and Explainable Federated Learning for Financial Crime Detection” has been selected for funding by CRAFT.
• [April 2023] Our paper LESS-VFL: Communication-Efficient Feature Selection for Vertical Federated Learning has been accepted to ICML 2023. Congratulations Tim!