Arvind Narayanan — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Professor at Princeton University
Director of Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy
Recognized for research in the de-anonymization of data
Showed possibilities for de-anonymizing Netflix Prize data by linking to publicly available IMDb user accounts
Advocated for Do Not Track in HTTP headers and co-authored its influential Internet Engineering Task Force Internet Draft
Received PhD in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in 2009

Biography

Arvind Narayanan is a computer scientist and a professor at Princeton University. He is recognized for his research in the de-anonymization of data and currently serves as the director of Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy.

Narayanan received technical degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2004 and his PhD in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in 2009.