Bio & professional activities — Arvind Narayanan

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Arvind Narayanan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Princeton. He leads the Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.

Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at @random_walker.

Advisory boards

Blockstack Token Fund

Fragile Families Challenge

Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society (NSF)

Heritage Health Prize ($3MM machine-learning prize for improving healthcare predictions)

Data Sharing and Privacy Protection in Digital-Age Environmental Health Studies (NIH)

Program committees

Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro) 2019 (co-chair)

USENIX Enigma 2019

Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*) 2019 (track chair)

Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2019

Northeast Privacy Scholars Workshop 2018

Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro) 2018 (co-chair)

Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) 2018

Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2018

IEEE Security & Privacy (Oakland) 2018

Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*) 2018 (track chair)

Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning (FAT-ML) 2017

Northeast Privacy Scholars Workshop 2017

Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro) 2017 (co-chair)

Financial Cryptography 2017

Dagstuhl Seminar: Online Privacy and Web Transparency (co-organizer)

Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) 2017

Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2017

Workshop on Data and Algorithmic Transparency 2016 (co-chair)

Usenix Security Symposium 2016

ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2016

Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain Research 2016

Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) 2016

ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2015

IEEE Security & Privacy (Oakland) 2015

Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2014

Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) 2014

Financial Cryptography 2014

Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs) 2013

Accelerate genomic research with privacy protections workshop, Banbury Center (co-organizer)

WWW 2013 (Security, Privacy, Trust, and Abuse Area)

IEEE Security & Privacy (Oakland) 2013

W3C "Do Not Track and Beyond" Workshop 2012

Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2012

Web 2.0 Security & Privacy (W2SP) 2012

Security and Social Networking (SESOC) workshop 2012

IEEE Security & Privacy (Oakland) 2012

Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2011

Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISEC) 2011

ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2011

USENIX Workshop on Health Security and Privacy (HealthSec) 2011