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Train a Differentially Private Classifier on Medical Records

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Overview

What this challenge is about.

Train a differentially private classifier on medical records with Opacus, plot the accuracy-vs-privacy frontier, and get a verifiable certificate.

The scenario

The Cambridge healthtech (around 30 staff, regulated by UK NHS data-sharing agreements) cannot deploy without the ethics committee's sign-off, which itself depends on a documented privacy guarantee.

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LanguageEnglish
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The Brief

What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.

Train a DP readmission classifier at epsilon <= 4 and write the ethics-committee submission with the accuracy-vs-privacy trade-off.

Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate

  • Apply DP-SGD with proper privacy accounting
  • Quantify the accuracy cost of differential privacy on real data
  • Reason about residual privacy risks (e.g., membership inference)
  • Communicate privacy guarantees to a non-technical ethics audience

Program Fit

Where this fits in your program.

Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.

Aligned coursework coming soon.

Careers

Career paths this challenge builds toward

Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:

AI Safety Researcher

Hands-on DP-SGD training and residual-risk analysis is the work AI safety researchers do at healthtech and any regulated AI team.

This challenge sharpens

  • differential-privacy
  • dp-sgd
  • privacy-accounting

ML Researcher

Privacy-preserving ML is increasingly part of the ML researcher's toolkit, especially in healthtech and EU-AI-Act-relevant work.

This challenge sharpens

  • differential-privacy
  • pytorch
  • model-evaluation

Applied AI Scientist

Translating DP-SGD into an ethics-committee-readable submission is the applied-AI work that bridges research and clinical deployment.

This challenge sharpens

  • dp-sgd
  • privacy-accounting
  • model-evaluation

One more thing

You can put a credential on your CV by Friday.