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Kiwan Maeng

Assistant Professor · College of Engineering · The Pennsylvania State University--University Park

Quick answer: Kiwan Maeng is Assistant Professor at The Pennsylvania State University--University Park. Kiwan Maeng shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.

⭐ If you are interested in working with me, please send me an email with: (1) your interested research area (with respect to my research interest), (2) at least one of my publication you read and want to build upon, and (3) your relevant background experiences (e.g., courses, projects, publication experiences). If these are not provided explicitly, I will not respond to your email.

Research interests

systems for privacy-preserving machine learning in the broadest sense. I am interested in studying the privacy implications of modern ML systems and developing algorithm/system/hardware solutions for privacy-preserving ML training and inference. In the past, I've also worked on systems for ML, ML and sustainability, and batteryless energy-harvesting devices.

Selected publications (since 2023)

[2026] Composition for Pufferfish Privacy - VLDB 2026 [2026] Cocoon: A System Architecture for Differentially Private Training with Correlated Noises - OSDI 2026 [2026] Beyond Latency: A System-Level Characterization of MPC and FHE for PPML - ISPASS 2026 [2025] In-depth Characterization of Machine Learning on an Optimized Multi-party Computing Library - CAL 2025 [2025] Characterizing the System Overhead of Discrete Noise Generation for Differential Privacy - CAL 2025 [2025] Practical Federated Recommendation Model Learning Using ORAM with Controlled Privacy - ASPLOS 2025 [2024] Information Flow Control in Machine Learning through Modular Model Architecture - Usenix Security 2024 [2024] Accelerating ReLU for MPC-Based Private Inference with a Communication-Efficient Sign Estimation - MLSys

Frequently asked questions

Is Kiwan Maeng hiring PhD students at The Pennsylvania State University--University Park?
Yes. As of 2026-09-11, Kiwan Maeng's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: If you are interested in working with me, please send me an email with: (1) your interested research area (with respect to my research interest), (2) at least one of my publication you read and want t.
What does Kiwan Maeng research?
systems for privacy-preserving machine learning in the broadest sense. I am interested in studying the privacy implications of modern ML systems and developing algorithm/system/hardware solutions for privacy-preserving ML training and inference. In the past, I've also worked on systems for ML, ML an

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