Arvind Narayanan

Title/Position

Professor

Degree

Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 2009

arvindn  (@cs.princeton.edu) (609) 258-9302 308 Sherrerd Hall

Homepage

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn

Other Affiliations

SPIA, CITP

Research

Interests: Information privacy, fairness in machine learning, cryptocurrencies, tech policy

Research Areas:

• Public Law & Policy
• Security & Privacy

Short Bio

Arvind Narayanan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Princeton. He leads the Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan co-created a Massive Open Online Course and textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies which has been used in over 150 courses worldwide. His recent work has shown how machine learning reflects cultural stereotypes, and his doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification. Narayanan is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), twice recipient of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award, and thrice recipient of the Privacy Papers for Policy Makers Award.

Selected Publications

• Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites.
  Arunesh Mathur, Gunes Acar, Michael Friedman, Elena Lucherini, Jonathan Mayer, Marshini Chetty, Arvind Narayanan.
  ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2019.
  Privacy Papers for Policy Makers Award.
   
• Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases.
  Aylin Caliskan, Joanna J. Bryson, Arvind Narayanan.
  Science, 2017.
   
• Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction.
  Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward W. Felten, Andrew Miller, Steven Goldfeder.
  Princeton University Press, 2016.
  Runner up for the 2017 PROSE Award in Computing and Information Sciences, Association of American Publishers.
   
• Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis.
  Steven Englehardt, Arvind Narayanan.
  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2016.
  Privacy Papers for Policy Makers Award.
   
• On the instability of Bitcoin without the block reward.
  Miles Carlsten, Harry Kalodner, S. Matthew Weinberg, Arvind Narayanan.
  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2016.
   
• A Precautionary Approach to Big Data Privacy.
  Arvind Narayanan, Joanna Huey, Edward Felten.
  Data protection on the move 2016.
  Privacy Papers for Policy Makers Award.
   
• Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies.
  Joseph Bonneau, Andrew Miller, Jeremy Clark, Joshua Kroll, Edward W. Felten, Arvind Narayanan.
  IEEE Security & Privacy 2015.
  Most cited computer security & privacy paper of 2015.
   
• The Web never forgets: Persistent tracking mechanisms in the wild.
  Gunes Acar, Christian Eubank, Steven Englehardt, Marc Juarez, Arvind Narayanan, Claudia Diaz.
  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2014.
   
• Routes for breaching and protecting genetic privacy.
  Yaniv Erlich, Arvind Narayanan.
  Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014.
   
• A Scanner Darkly: Protecting User Privacy from Perceptual Applications.
  Suman Jana, Arvind Narayanan, Vitaly Shmatikov.
  In IEEE Security and Privacy 2013.
  2014 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.