Arvind Narayanan

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]

Arvind Narayanan
Alma materIndian Institute of Technology Madras
University of Texas at Austin
Known forde-anonymization
AwardsPrivacy Enhancing Technology Award
Scientific career
InstitutionsStanford University
Princeton University
ThesisData Privacy: the Non-interactive Setting (2009)
Doctoral advisorVitaly Shmatikov
Websitehttps://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/

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 Vitaly Shmatikov. 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 Vitaly Shmatikov 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 and the importance of more rigorous anonymization techniques. 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 cryptography.[14][15]

Awards

References
  2. Dan Grech, , Princeton Alumni Weekly, 8/1/14
  3. Kim Zetter, , Wired, 18/6/12
  5. 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
  7. On The Media, , 2/3/12
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 28 March 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  16. "President Donald J. Trump Announces Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers". www.whitehouse.gov. 2 July 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
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