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Dr. Ori Katz<br />
Dr. Ori Katz, a member of Department of Applied<br />
Physics, completed his postdoctoral research in<br />
Paris, at Institut Langevin and Laboratoire Kastler<br />
Brossel. He is an Azrieli Foundation Faculty Fellow<br />
and the recipient of an elite ERC Starting Grant.<br />
Dr. Katz’s Advanced Imaging Lab is developing<br />
new optics-based techniques that can look deeply<br />
into opaque samples as well as around corners<br />
by combining controlled light, sound and advanced<br />
computational approaches. His pioneering<br />
techniques exceed the capabilities of conventional<br />
cameras.<br />
Dr. Katz is challenging existing ideas about randomly<br />
scattered light by demonstrating that it is possible<br />
to extract information from scattered light for the<br />
purpose of high resolution imaging. His research<br />
aims to measure light scattering in ways that will<br />
enable progress in fields such as medicine and<br />
national defense.<br />
Dr. Katrina Ligett<br />
Dr. Katrina Ligett, a member of the Benin School<br />
of Computer Science and Engineering, previously<br />
served as an assistant professor at the California<br />
Institute of Technology. She has held visiting<br />
lectureships at the University of California, Berkeley<br />
and Cornell University, where she received a<br />
postdoctoral fellowship.<br />
Dr. Ligett investigates the mathematical foundations<br />
of computer science in relation to data privacy and<br />
game theory, using mathematics to understand and<br />
optimize trade-offs that create tensions between<br />
individual privacy and the larger benefits of sharing<br />
private information. One example might be a<br />
hospital’s desire to publish scientific findings derived<br />
from patients’ confidential medical data.<br />
She also explores how parties might act, given<br />
some formal specifications involving a game they<br />
are playing. An example: How high are the payoffs<br />
individuals can guarantee themselves if they have<br />
limited time in which to compute their actions?<br />
Dr. Ligett has studied the intersection of privacy<br />
and game theory, a case being how to incentivize<br />
individuals to participate in computations requiring<br />
access to their personal information.<br />
24 / AFHU NEWS
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