Arvind Narayanan Explained

Arvind Narayanan
Doctoral Advisor:C. Pandu Rangan
Thesis Year:2009
Thesis Title:Data Privacy: the Non-interactive Setting
Thesis Url:https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/18424
Known For:De-anonymization
Awards:Privacy Enhancing Technology Award

Arvind Narayanan is a computer scientist and a 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 the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2004.[4] His advisor was C. Pandu Rangan. Narayanan received his PhD in computer science from the 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 as an assistant professor in September 2012. He was promoted to associate professor in 2014,[5] and to professor in 2022.

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.[6] This research led to higher recognition of de-anonymization techniques and the importance of more rigorous anonymization techniques. Later Narayanan de-anonymized graphs from social networking[7] and writings from blogs.[8]

In mid-2010, Narayanan and Jonathan Mayer argued in favor of Do Not Track in HTTP headers.[9] [10] They built prototypes of Do Not Track for clients and servers.[11] Working with Mozilla they wrote the influential Internet Engineering Task Force Internet Draft of Do Not Track.[12] [13]

Narayanan has written extensively about software cultures. He has argued for more substantial teaching of ethics in computer science education[14] and usable cryptography.[15] [16]

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Board approves 12 faculty promotions . 19 October 2022 .
  2. Dan Grech, http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2014/01/08/pages/2305/index.xml, Princeton Alumni Weekly, 8/1/14
  3. Kim Zetter, https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/wmw-arvind-narayanan/, Wired, 18/6/12
  4. Web site: Arvind Narayanan @ Theory Group, CSE, IITM . 28 March 2014 . 7 April 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140407071700/http://theory.cse.iitm.ac.in/memberdetails.php?memberid=282 . live .
  5. Web site: Board approves seven faculty appointments . 28 March 2014 . 7 April 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140407062017/https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S34/98/08I05/index.xml . live .
  6. [Bruce Schneier]
  7. News: Social sites dent privacy efforts . 27 March 2009 . 28 March 2014 . 31 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140331113349/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7967648.stm . live .
  8. On The Media, http://www.onthemedia.org/story/190142-end-anonymous-commenting/, 2/3/12
  9. Web site: "Do Not Track" Explained « 33 Bits of Entropy . 28 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100924085813/http://33bits.org/2010/09/20/do-not-track-explained/ . 24 September 2010 . dead .
  10. Web site: Archived copy . 28 March 2014 . 11 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120911053048/http://www.iab.org/wp-content/IAB-uploads/2011/03/jonathan_mayer.pdf . live .
  11. Web site: Do Not Track - Universal Web Tracking Opt Out . 28 March 2014 . 13 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140213103905/http://www.donottrack.us/ . live .
  12. Web site: Draft-mayer-do-not-track-00 . 7 March 2011 . 28 March 2014 . 7 January 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160107015911/http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mayer-do-not-track-00 . live . Mayer . Jonathan . Narayanan . Arvind . Stamm . Sid .
  13. Web site: Summary of W3C DNT Workshop Submissions . 5 May 2011 . 28 March 2014 . 28 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140328060127/https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/joehall/summary-w3c-dnt-workshop-submissions/ . live .
  14. Web site: Why Software Engineering Courses Should Include Ethics Coverage . March 2014 . 28 March 2014 . 31 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140331113744/http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/3/172501-why-software-engineering-courses-should-include-ethics-coverage/abstract . live .
  15. Web site: Archived copy . 28 March 2014 . 29 October 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191029143759/http://randomwalker.info/publications/crypto-dream-part1.pdf . live .
  16. Web site: Archived copy . 28 March 2014 . 24 July 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140724120340/http://randomwalker.info/publications/crypto-dream-part2.pdf . live .
  17. Web site: President Donald J. Trump Announces Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. 2019-07-02. en. National Archives. whitehouse.gov. 2019-08-03. 21 March 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210321142712/https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-announces-recipients-presidential-early-career-award-scientists-engineers/. live.
  18. Web site: PET Award.

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