Arvind Narayanan
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Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology Madras University of Texas at Austin |
Known for | de-anonymization |
Awards | Privacy Enhancing Technology Award |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Stanford University Princeton University |
Thesis | Data Privacy: the Non-interactive Setting (2009) |
Doctoral advisor | |
Website | https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/ |
Arvind Narayanan is a computer scientist and an associate professor at Princeton University.[1] Narayanan is recognized for his research in the de-anonymization of data.[2][3]
Biography[]
Narayanan received technical degrees from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2004.[4] C. Pandu Rangan was his advisor. Narayanan received his PhD in computer science in University of Texas at Austin in 2009 under . He worked briefly as a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University, working closely with Dan Boneh. Narayanan moved to Princeton University where he has been an assistant professor since September 2012.
Career[]
In 2006 Netflix began the Netflix Prize competition for better recommendation algorithms. In order to facilitate the competition, Netflix released "anonymized" viewership information. However, Narayanan and advisor showed possibilities for de-anonymizing this information by linking this anonymized data to publicly available IMDb user accounts.[5] This research led to much higher recognition of de-anonymization techniques[according to whom?] and the importance of more rigorous anonymization techniques.[citation needed] In later working Narayanan has de-anonymized graphs from social networking[6] and writings from blogs.[7]
In mid-2010, Narayanan and Jonathan Mayer argued to the favor of Do Not Track in HTTP headers.[8][9] They built prototypes of Do Not Track for clients and servers.[10] Working with Mozilla they wrote the influential Internet Engineering Task Force Internet Draft of Do Not Track.[11][12]
Narayanan has written extensively about software cultures. He has argued for more substantial ethics teaching in computer science education [13] and usable[clarification needed] cryptography.[14][15]
Awards[]
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers[16]
- Privacy Enhancing Technology Award 2008[17]
References[]
- ^ "Board approves seven faculty appointments". Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- ^ Dan Grech, [1] Archived 28 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Princeton Alumni Weekly, 8/1/14
- ^ Kim Zetter, [2] Archived 22 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Wired, 18/6/12
- ^ "Arvind Narayanan @ Theory Group, CSE, IITM". Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- ^ Bruce Schneier, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 30 March 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), 13/12/07
- ^ "Social sites dent privacy efforts". 27 March 2009. Archived from the original on 31 March 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- ^ On The Media, [3] Archived 31 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine, 2/3/12
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 28 March 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 September 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 February 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Draft-mayer-do-not-track-00". Archived from the original on 7 January 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- ^ "Summary of W3C DNT Workshop Submissions". Archived from the original on 28 March 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- ^ "Why Software Engineering Courses Should Include Ethics Coverage". Archived from the original on 31 March 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 October 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 July 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "President Donald J. Trump Announces Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers". whitehouse.gov. 2 July 2019. Archived from the original on 21 March 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2019 – via National Archives.
- ^ "PET Award".
External links[]
- Random Walker, his personal page
- 33 Bits, his blogging
- Live journaling page
- Living people
- Indian academics
- IIT Madras alumni
- Princeton University faculty
- University of Texas at Austin alumni
- Science bloggers