hey there! I'm, Anshu.

Professional Me

Privacy Research Engineer

Anshu Singh is the first privacy research engineer at GovTech (Government Technology Agency), Singapore. Her current interests lie in privacy threat modelling, privacy by design, and privacy-enhancing technologies. She graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with Masters of Computing degree, specialization in Artificial Intelligence (AI). She also spent 2 years in AI research particularly in computer vision and privacy at NUS Centre for Research in Privacy Technologies (N-CRiPT) under the supervision of Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli and Dr. Shaojing Fan . Her research interests also include privacy-preserving machine learning. Reach out at firstname.lastname173 at gmail.com

Research Work

Human Attributes Prediction Under Privacy-preserving Conditions
Anshu Singh, Shaojing Fan, Mohan Kankanhalli
ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2021
The work had been selected and presented at various venues — Content-Based Multimedia Indexing Lille (France), Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (India), SGInnovate (Singapore), and Singapore Cybersecurity Consortium (Singapore).
[Project Webpage] [Code] [Poster]

Talks

Talk on differential privacy at STACK Meetup: Building Digital Trust through Privacy Engineering [Data Science & AI Series] [Video] .
Speaker at the 2023 USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect held at Santa Clara, USA
Conducted a workshop on data privacy (focus on differential privacy) at STACK Developer Conference 2022
Gave an invited talk at the Singapore Cybersecurity Consortium; spoke on privacy-preserving human attributes prediction using AI [Video]
Presented the published paper virtually at the main conference held in Chengdu, China [Video]

Work Experience

Privacy Research Engineer at GovTech
At GovTech Singapore, I serve as the Privacy Research Engineer, navigating the dynamic crossroads of technology, law, and privacy to protect individuals. I'm at the helm of synthetic data generation and differential privacy for the Data Privacy Protection Capability Center (DPPCC). I collaborate with leaders, policymakers, cross-functional teams, government entities, and esteemed academics from Harvard and NUS, along with industry trailblazers (such as Tumult Labs and Betterdata), to strengthen Singapore government's data protection with advanced PETs.
Research Assistant at NUS's N-CRiPT
- Geocoded Tweets' Insights Dashboard - built an interactive, configurable and generic dashboard to analyse country-specific or global influential users, local and global news and events, public perception, user communities and so on. These insights can help the regulators and decision-makers take appropriate actions
- Did cutting edge research and published a paper in the domain of computer vision for facial analytics in privacy settings; did comprehensive literature survey, exhaustive geo-diverse data collection and wrangling, experimentation and statistical testing, explainable deep learning modeling and hyperparameter optimization, evaluation, and visualizations
Software Engineer at Development Bank of Singapore
- Revamped a high priority project, Current Account Savings Account (CASA), used by millions to create a DBS or POSB account
- Led and won a hackathon and was featured on DBS India’s website
Software Engineer at HashedIn by Deloitte
- Developed a SaaS application to help teams run effective meetings with clearly defined agendas, action items, collaborative notes taking, and so on; clients reported productivity increase by 25%
- Ideated and developed an MVP product to track a user's activities across GitHub, Google drive, and Jira