Nikita Kalinin

Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

I am a PhD student at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), advised by Christoph Lampert.

My research focuses on the theoretical foundations of differential privacy, particularly matrix factorization mechanisms for private machine learning and continual observation. I enjoy designing algorithms and studying their theoretical properties. More broadly, I am interested in connections between privacy, algorithms, statistics, learning theory, and optimization.

News

Sep 29, 2026 Our paper on pure-DP continual counting, joint work with Pavel Arkhipov, was accepted to SODA 2027—my first TCS conference paper!
Sep 24, 2026 Our paper on sampling-free privacy accounting, with Jan Schuchardt, was accepted to NeurIPS 2026. Looking forward to the trip to Sydney!
Jul 06, 2026 Visited Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye’s group at Imperial College London and gave a talk on efficient noise correlation for DP training.
May 26, 2026 Visited Aurélien Bellet’s group at Inria and gave a talk on efficient noise correlation for DP training.
Apr 24, 2026 Presented Back to Square Roots at ICLR 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Selected Publications

For the full list of publications, see my Google Scholar profile.

  1. NeurIPS
  2. FORC
    Nikita P. Kalinin, Joel Daniel Andersson
    FORC 2026
  3. ICLR
    Nikita P. Kalinin, Ryan McKenna, Jalaj Upadhyay, Christoph H. Lampert
    ICLR 2026
  4. NeurIPS
    Nikita P. Kalinin, Jalaj Upadhyay, Christoph H. Lampert
    NeurIPS 2025
  5. AISTATS
    Nikita P. Kalinin, Lukas Steinberger
    AISTATS 2025
  6. NeurIPS
    Nikita P. Kalinin, Christoph H. Lampert
    NeurIPS 2024