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Akasha Shafiq
PhD Researcher
Akasha Shafiq currently pursuing a PhD.
Akasha Shafiq is a PhD researcher at University College Cork, specializing in differential privacy. Her research is focused on designing and validating privacy-preserving mechanisms that protect individual privacy while ensuring data utility. Akasha holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from COMSATS University, Islamabad, where she was part of the Network Security Research Group, and she was recognized as one of Business Post’s Tech 30 under 30 in 2024.
Her current work combines theoretical and practical approaches to differential privacy, particularly in fine-tuning privacy parameters like epsilon to optimize the privacy-utility balance. Akasha’s research spans applications in secure data sharing, IoT environments, and machine learning, where she emphasizes empirical validation and addresses the challenges of deploying differential privacy solutions in real-world settings.
Supervisor: Dr Paolo Palmieri
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