Arvind Narayanan
Arvind Narayanan is a computer scientist. He is an assistant professor in computer science 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 Vitaly Shmatikov. He worked brief as a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University working closely with Dan Boneh. Narayanan moved to Princeton University as professor since September 2012.
De-Anonymization of Data
In 2006 Netflix began the Netflix Prize competition for better collaborative filtering algorithms. That business gave out "anonymous" customer informations. However, Narayanan and advisor Vitaly Shmatikov showed possibilities for "de-anonymizing" those informations.[5] This researching led to much higher recognition of "de-anonymizing." In later working Narayanan has de-anonymized graphs from social networking[6] and writings from blogs.[7]
Do Not Track
In mid-2010, Narayanan and another Stanford researcher 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]
Software culture
Narayanan wrote about software cultures. He argues for ethics teaching in the computer science schooling[13] and usabler cryptography.[14][15]
Awards
- Privacy Enhancing Technology Award 2008[16]
References
External links
- Random Walker, his personal page
- 33 Bits, his blogging
- Live journaling page