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Arvind Narayanan

Director of CITP, Professor of Computer Science, and CITP Steering Committee Member


Arvind Narayanan is the current director of CITP as of July 1, 2023. He is also a professor of computer science at Princeton. He co-authored a textbook on fairness and machine learning and is currently co-authoring a book on AI snake oil. He led the Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. His work was among the first to show 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 a recipient of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award, and thrice a recipient of the Privacy Papers for Policy Makers Award.

Narayanan can be reached at , 308 Sherrerd Hall, 609-258-9302.