Stacy Patterson
About
Stacy Patterson is an Associate Professor and the Associate Head and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Computer Science. Her research focuses on distributed computing systems, machine learning, and data privacy, where she applies mathematical theory and formal verification to derive provable guarantees about practical applications spanning finance, aviation, cloud computing, and edge computing. Current projects include: Privacy-preserving federated learning for financial fraud prevention Private synthetic data generation for financial applications Quantum machine learning Performance optimization for Gen AI, with applications in information retrieval and code generation Formal verification for safety-critical systems, such as future aviation systems Her research has been supported by grants from NSF, the RPI-IBM AI Research Collaboration, and the NSF IUCRC Center for Research toward Advancing Financial Technologies (CRAFT). She has collaborated with industry partners including PSEG, IBM, and Swift. Dr. Patterson earned her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She subsequently held postdoctoral appointments with the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation at UC Santa Barbara, and with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology. She is a recipient of a Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professorship, the IEEE Control Systems Society George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, and the NSF CAREER Award.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
From static distributed systems to dynamic systems
Year: 2005
Citations: 101
Venue: 24th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'05)
Latest Recorded Paper
Measuring Privacy Risks and Tradeoffs in Financial Synthetic Data Generation
Year: 2026
Citations: 0
Venue: The Second International Workshop on Transformative Insights in Multifaceted
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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