Lydia Zakynthinou
Assistant Professor,
Johns Hopkins University
Lydia Zakynthinou is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. Before that, she spent two years as a FODSI postdoctoral research fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley, hosted by Michael I. Jordan. She completed her PhD from Khoury College of Computer Science at Northeastern University in 2023, for which she received a Facebook Fellowship and the Khoury PhD Research Award. Lydia's research interests lie on the theoretical foundations of trustworthy machine learning and statistics. In particular, her research focuses on learning under privacy constraints and obtaining guarantees of validity and generalization via algorithmic stability.