Niloofar Mireshghallah is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on privacy, natural language processing, and the societal implications of machine learning. Niloofar completed her PhD in 2023 at UC San Diego, where she was advised by Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick. Her PhD thesis is titled "Auditing and Mitigating Safety Risks in Large Language Models." We discuss her journey into research and her work on privacy and LLMs, including how privacy is defined, common attacks and mitigations, differential privacy, and the balance between memorization and generalization. - Episode notes: www.wellecks.com/thesisreview/episode47.html - Follow the Thesis Review (@thesisreview) and Sean Welleck (@wellecks) on Twitter - Support The Thesis Review at www.patreon.com/thesisreview or www.buymeacoffee.com/thesisreview