Ephraim Linder is awarded a 2026 Apple Scholars in AIML PhD fellowship

Congratulations to Ephraim Linder for receiving a prestigious 2026 Apple Scholars in AIML PhD fellowship!

Ephraim Linder is a PhD student at Boston University, advised by Professor Adam Smith and Professor Sofya Raskhodnikova. Broadly, he is interested in data privacy and sublinear time algorithms, and in particular, in privacy preserving algorithms for statistics and machine learning. His most recent work aims to develop improved tools for privately releasing statistics with little or no obvious structure.

The Apple Scholars in AIML PhD fellowship program supports emerging leaders in academic research through funding as they pursue their PhDs, mentorship with Apple researchers, and internship opportunities. Now in its seventh year, the fellowship program has supported more than 120 emerging leaders in computer science and engineering at the graduate and postgraduate levels.

Congratulations, Ephraim, on this outstanding achievement!