Publications

For the most up-to-date list, see my Google Scholar profile.

Conference & Journal Papers
PMLR 2025  ·  16% acceptance
Privacy-Preserving Group Fairness in Cross-Device Federated Learning
Paper
S. Pentyala, N. Neophytou, A. Nascimento, M. De Cock, G. Farnadi
Fairness Privacy Federated Learning
IEEE SaTML 2025  ·  29% acceptance
Privacy Vulnerabilities in Marginals-based Synthetic Data
Paper
S. Golob, S. Pentyala, A. Maratkhan, M. De Cock
Synthetic Data Privacy Attacks
ICML 2024  ·  28% acceptance
CaPS: Collaborative and Private Synthetic Data Generation from Distributed Sources
Paper
S. Pentyala, M. Pereira, M. De Cock
Synthetic Data Privacy DP-in-MPC
PoPETS 2024  ·  20% acceptance
Privacy-Preserving Membership Queries for Federated Anomaly Detection
Paper
J. Vos, S. Pentyala, S. Golob, R. Maia, D. Kelly, C. Martins, Z. Erkin, M. De Cock, A. Nascimento
Federated Learning Privacy
PLOS ONE 2024
An End-to-End Framework for Private DGA Detection as a Service
Paper
R.J.M. Maia, D. Ray, S. Pentyala, R. Dowsley, M. De Cock, A. Nascimento, R. Jacobi
Privacy MPC
ECIR 2023  ·  29% acceptance
Privacy-Preserving Fair Item Ranking
Paper
J.A. Sun, S. Pentyala, M. De Cock, G. Farnadi
Fairness Privacy Federated Learning
SIGMOD DEC23 Workshop 2023
A Decentralized Information Marketplace Preserving Input and Output Privacy
Paper
S. Golob, S. Pentyala, R. Dowsley, B. David, M. Larangeira, M. De Cock, A. Nascimento
Privacy DP-in-MPC
ICML 2021  ·  21% acceptance
Privacy-Preserving Video Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks
Paper
S. Pentyala, R. Dowsley, M. De Cock
Privacy MPC
Abstracts / Workshop Papers
NAIRR Annual Meeting, 2026
Privacy-Preserving Genomics Data Sharing on the NAIRR
S. Pentyalastrong>, P. McKeever, J. Banerjee, L. Foschini, M. De Cock
Synthetic DataGenomics
ACM Cascadia Women in Computing Celebration, 2025
Federated Synthetic Data Generation to Accelerate Hepatology Research
Abinava Bhrati Babu, Joseph C. Ahn, M. De Cock, S. Pentyala
Synthetic DataHealthcare
ISMB/ECCB 2025
Synthetic Data Generation for bulk RNA-seq Data: a CAMDA Health Challenge Analysis
S. Menzies, S. Pentyala, D. Filienko, S. Golob, J. Banerjee, L. Foschini, M. De Cock
Synthetic DataGenomics
ISMB/ECCB 2025
Comparison of Single Cell RNA Synthetic Data Generators: a CAMDA Health Challenge Analysis
P. McKeever, D. Filienko, S. Golob, S. Menzies, S. Pentyala, J. Banerjee, L. Foschini, M. De Cock
Synthetic DataGenomics
PPAI-2025 @ AAAI
End to End Collaborative Synthetic Data Generation
S. Pentyala, G. Sitaraman, T. Claar, M. De Cock
Synthetic Data
NAIRR Inaugural Annual Meeting, 2025
Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Data Generation on the NAIRR
S. Pentyalastrong>, S. Menzies, M. De Cock
Synthetic Data
GenoPri'24 — 11th Intl. Workshop on Genome Privacy & Security
Securely Generating Synthetic Genomic Data from Distributed Data Silos
T. Claar, S. Golob, S. Pentyala, G. Sitaraman, M. De Cock, J. Banerjee, L. Foschini
Synthetic DataGenomics
PPAI-2024 @ AAAI
High Epsilon Synthetic Data Vulnerabilities in MST and PrivBayes
S. Golob, S. Pentyala, A. Maratkhan, M. De Cock
Synthetic DataAttacks
XAI-Finance @ ICAIF 2023
Privacy-Preserving Algorithmic Recourse
S. Pentyala, S. Sharma, S. Kariyappa, F. Leuce, D. Magazzeni
Fairness / XAI
SyntheticData4ML @ NeurIPS 2022
Secure Multiparty Computation for Synthetic Data Generation from Distributed Data
M. Pereira, S. Pentyala, A. Nascimento, R.T. de Sousa Jr., M. De Cock
Synthetic DataMPC
PPAI-2022 @ AAAI
PrivFair: A Library for Privacy-Preserving Fairness Auditing
S. Pentyala, D. Melanson, M. De Cock, G. Farnadi
Fairness / XAI
Preprints
arXiv
FHAIM: Fully Homomorphic AIM for Private Synthetic Data Generation
M. Kumar, Q. Lou, P. Barreto, M. De Cock, S. Pentyala
PrivacySynthetic DataFHE
arXiv
Privacy Vulnerabilities in Synthetic Single-Cell RNA-Sequence Data
S. Golob, P. McKeever, S. Pentyala, M. De Cock, J. Peck
PrivacySynthetic DataGenomics
arXiv
Training Differentially Private Models with Secure Multiparty Computation
S. Pentyala, D. Railsback, R. Maia, R. Dowsley, D. Melanson, A. Nascimento, M. De Cock
DP-in-MPC
Patents
US Patent Application 18/517,211  ·  JPMorgan Chase
System and Method for Generating Recourse Paths with Privacy Guarantees
S. Pentyala et al.
Fairness / XAI
Pending  ·  JPMorgan Chase
Interpretable Time Series Models (undisclosed)
S. Pentyala et al.
Time Series