Nick Feamster

Professor of Computer Science; Acting Director, Center for Information Technology Policy; Acting Director, Program in Technology and Society, Information Technology Track

609-258-2203
310 Sherrerd Hall

Nick is currently serving as the acting director of CITP from June 1, 2015 to June 30, 2017. Nick is also a professor in the Computer Science Department at Princeton University. Before joining the faculty at Princeton, he was a professor in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in Computer science from MIT in 2005, and his S.B. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2000 and 2001, respectively. He received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the Technology Review “TR35” award, a Sloan Fellowship, and the SIGCOMM Rising Star Award for his contributions to cybersecurity, notably spam filtering. His research focuses on many aspects of computer networking and networked systems, with a focus on network operations, network security, and censorship-resistant communication systems. His research interests overlap with technology policy in the areas of censorship, broadband access networks, and network security and privacy.

Edward W. Felten

Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs; Director, Center for Information Technology Policy; Director, Program in Technology and Society, Information Technology Track

Ed is the director of CITP and served at the White House as the Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer from June 2015 to January 2017. Ed was also the first chief technologist for the Federal Trade Commission from January 2011 until September 2012. His research interests include computer security and privacy, and public policy issues relating to information technology. Specific topics include software security, Internet security, electronic voting, cybersecurity policy, technology for government transparency, network neutrality and Internet policy.

Ed often blogs about technology and policy at Freedom to Tinker.

Joanna Huey

Associate Director

609-258-2175
307 Sherrerd Hall

Joanna’s interests include access to legal information, civic engagement, and science and technology education. Prior to joining CITP, she clerked for the Honorable Michael Boudin, worked as a business associate at Goodwin Procter, and co-founded Casetext, a Y Combinator-backed startup. She holds an A.B. in physics and math from Harvard College, an M.P.P. in science and technology policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was president of the Harvard Law Review.

Laura Cummings-Abdo

Center Manager

Temporary: 609-258-2266
Temporary: 314 Sherrerd Hall

Laura has been with CITP almost since its inception and manages all the financials, social media, the undergraduate Technology and Society Certificate Program and other center administration. Laura holds a B.A. from The Pennsylvania State University in Advertising/Public Relations – Strategic Communications.

Jean Butcher

Event Coordinator

609-258-9658
303 Sherrerd Hall

Jean joined CITP in January of 2016 and manages all events and general office administration. Jean completed her Master of Art degree at William Paterson University, Bachelor of Science degree at Montclair State University and Associate of Liberal Arts degree at Middlesex County College. Jean has worked at Princeton University for ODUS and Campus Club, at MTV Networks, and most recently as the Director of Special Events at Chez Alice Catering Company.

Edward W. Felten

Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs; Director, Center for Information Technology Policy; Director, Program in Technology and Society, Information Technology Track

609-258-5906
302 Sherrerd Hall

Ed is the director of CITP and served at the White House as the Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer from June 2015 to January 2017. Ed was also the first chief technologist for the Federal Trade Commission from January 2011 until September 2012. His research interests include computer security and privacy, and public policy issues relating to information technology. Specific topics include software security, Internet security, electronic voting, cybersecurity policy, technology for government transparency, network neutrality and Internet policy.

Ed often blogs about technology and policy at Freedom to Tinker.

Andrew W. Appel

Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science

609-258-4627
306 Computer Science Building

Andrew’s research is in computer security, programming languages and compilers, automated theorem proving, and technology policy. He received his A.B. summa cum laude in physics from Princeton in 1981, and his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1985. He has been editor in chief of ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems and is a fellow of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).

David P. Dobkin

Phillip Y. Goldman ’86 Professor in Computer Science

609-258-9907
419 Computer Science

David’s current research focuses on the processing of large public data sets to better support the making of decisions in a variety of contexts. He has previously served as Dean of the Faculty (2003-14) and chair of the Computer Science Department (1994-2003). Among the honors he has received are a Guggenheim Fellowship (1988-89), a Fulbright fellowship (2000) and election as a fellow of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery). He has served as a consultant to various organizations including the governments of Denmark, Israel and Singapore.

Nick Feamster

Professor of Computer Science; Acting Director, Center for Information Technology Policy; Acting Director, Program in Technology and Society, Information Technology Track

609-258-2203
310 Sherrerd Hall

Nick is currently serving as the acting director of CITP from June 1, 2015 to December 31, 2016. Nick is also a professor in the Computer Science Department at Princeton University. Before joining the faculty at Princeton, he was a professor in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in Computer science from MIT in 2005, and his S.B. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2000 and 2001, respectively. He received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the Technology Review “TR35” award, a Sloan Fellowship, and the SIGCOMM Rising Star Award for his contributions to cybersecurity, notably spam filtering. His research focuses on many aspects of computer networking and networked systems, with a focus on network operations, network security, and censorship-resistant communication systems. His research interests overlap with technology policy in the areas of censorship, broadband access networks, and network security and privacy.

Brian Kernighan

Professor of Computer Science

609-258-2089
311 Computer Science Building

Brian, whose distinguished career at Bell Labs included key roles in the development of AT&T Unix and the C programming language, is a leader in explaining computers and computer science to the lay public. His popular undergraduate course, Computers in Our World, introduces humanists and social scientists to computing, providing them with the background and depth to understand digital issues that are of current policy interest.

Brian also writes the “Hello, World” column in the Daily Princetonian.

Michael Oppenheimer

Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences

609-258-1971
448 Robertson Hall

Michael is the director of the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP) at the Woodrow Wilson School and Faculty Associate of the Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Program, Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. His interests include science and policy of the atmosphere, particularly climate change and its impacts. Much of his research aims to understand the potential for “dangerous” outcomes of increasing levels of greenhouse gases by exploring the effects of global warming on ecosystems such as coral reefs, on the ice sheets and sea level, and on patterns of human migration. He also studies the process of scientific learning and scientific assessments and their role in problems of global change.

Michael is the author of over 100 articles published in professional journals and is co-author (with Robert H. Boyle) of a 1990 book, Dead Heat: The Race Against The Greenhouse Effect.

Jennifer L. Rexford

Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Computer Science
Chair, Department of Computer Science

609-258-5182
222 Computer Science Building

Jen, who came to Princeton in 2005 after eight and a half years at AT&T Research, is interested in Internet policy and Internet governance, stemming from her longstanding research on computer networks. She co-chairs the Secure BGP Deployment working group of the FCC’s Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council, and chairs the Mobile Broadband working group of the FCC’s Open Internet Advisory Committee. Collaborating with a multi-institution group of colleagues, she has published papers on “Risking communications security: Potential hazards of the Protect America Act” (IEEE Security and Privacy) and “Can it really work? Problems with Extending EINSTEIN 3 to critical infrastructure” (Harvard Law School’s National Security Journal).

Matthew J. Salganik

Professor of Sociology

609-258-8867
145 Wallace Hall

Matthew’s interests include social networks and computational social science. Salganik is the author of Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, and his research has been published in journals such as Science, PNAS, Sociological Methodology, and Journal of the American Statistical Association. His papers have won the Outstanding Article Award from the Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and the Outstanding Statistical Application Award from the American Statistical Association, and he received the Leo Goodman Award from the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association. Popular accounts of his work have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, and New Yorker. Salganik’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Joint United Nations Program for HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Sloan Foundation, Facebook, and Google. During sabbaticals from Princeton, he has been a Visiting Professor at Cornell Tech and a Senior Research are Microsoft Research.

Paul W. Cuff

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

609-258-7946
B316 Engineering Quad B-Wing

Paul’s research in information theory is largely focused on the fundamental limits of communication in multiuser settings. In addition to moving information around in the classical sense, some alternative questions arise when you consider using information to coordinate actions in a control setting. The mathematical tools needed to characterize the limits of compression in these settings are related to rate-distortion theory and require additional novel concepts as well.

Michael J. Freedman

Professor of Computer Science

609-258-9179
308 Computer Science Building

Michael J. Freedman is a professor in the Computer Science Department at Princeton University, with a research focus on distributed systems, networking, and security. He is also currently the co-founder/CEO of iobeam, a data analysis platform for the Internet of Things.

Prior to joining Princeton in 2007, he received his Ph.D. in computer science from NYU’s Courant Institute and his S.B. and M.Eng. degrees from MIT. He developed and operated several self-managing systems — including CoralCDN, a decentralized content distribution network, and DONAR, a server resolution system that powered the FCC’s Consumer Broadband Test — which serve millions of users daily. Other research has included software-defined and service-centric networking, cloud storage and data management, untrusted cloud services, fault-tolerant distributed systems, virtual world systems, peer-to-peer systems, and various privacy-enhancing and anti-censorship systems. Freedman’s work on IP geolocation and intelligence led him to co-found Illuminics Systems, which was acquired by Quova (now part of Neustar) in 2006. His work on programmable enterprise networking (Ethane) helped form the basis for the OpenFlow / software-defined networking (SDN) architecture. Honors include a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, DARPA Computer Science Study Group membership, and multiple award publications.

Stanley N. Katz

Lecturer with the rank of Professor in Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School

609-258-5637
428 Robertson Hall

Stan’s many interests include the future of digitally-enabled scholarship, which was the topic of an online, multi-institution symposium hosted by the Center. He contributes to the group blog Brainstorm: Lives of the Mind at the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Sanjeev R. Kulkarni

Dean of the Graduate School
Professor of Electrical Engineering

609-258-6727
100 Clio Hall

Sanjeev’s research interests span several areas including machine learning, pattern recognition, information theory, and signal/image/video processing. He is an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Operations Research and in the Department of Philosophy.

Ruby B. Lee

Forrest G. Hamrick Professor in Engineering
Professor of Electrical Engineering

609-258-1426
B218 Engineering Quad B-Wing

Ruby’s current research interests are in Secure Cloud Computing, and hardware-enhanced systems security. She was co-leader of the National Cyber Leap Year Summit sponsored by 13 government agencies that brought government, industry and university experts together to look at game-changing strategies for improving cyber security. She was also committee member of the congress-mandated National Academies study on improving cyber security research in the U.S. She teaches an undergraduate course in Cyber Security open to both technical and non-technical majors on the technology and related policy issues underlying security in cyberspace.

Margaret Martonosi

Hugh Trumbull Adams ’35 Professor of Computer Science

609-258-1912
204 Computer Science Building

Margaret has been on the faculty since 1994. In 2011, she served as acting director of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP). She also holds an affiliated faculty appointment in Princeton EE. From 2005-2007, she served as associate dean for Academic Affairs for the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Margaret’s research interests are in computer architecture and the hardware-software interface, with particular focus on power-efficient systems and mobile computing. Her work has included the development of the Wattch power modeling tool, the first architecture level power modeling infrastructure for superscalar processors. In the field of mobile computing and sensor networks, Martonosi led the Princeton ZebraNet project, which included two real-world deployments of tracking collars on zebras in Central Kenya. Her current research focuses on power-performance tradeoffs in parallel systems ranging from chip multiprocessors to large-scale data centers.

Margaret is a fellow of both IEEE and ACM. In 2010, she received Princeton University’s Graduate Mentoring Award. In addition to many archival publications, Martonosi is an inventor on six granted US patents, and has co-authored a technical reference book on power-aware computer architecture. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA), CRA-W, and ACM SIGARCH. Martonosi completed her Ph.D. at Stanford University, and also holds a Master’s degree from Stanford and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University, all in Electrical Engineering.

Prateek Mittal

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

Engineering Quad, Room B326

Prateek is an assistant professor in Electrical Engineering at Princeton and an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy. He is interested in building secure and privacy-preserving systems. His current interests include the domains of privacy enhancing technologies, trustworthy social systems, and Internet/network security. His work has influenced the design of widely-used systems such as the Tor network.

Andrés Monroy-Hernández works on human-computer interaction and social computing. Along with his team, he designs and studies technologies that help millions of people connect and collaborate in new ways. He led the creation of the Scratch online community at MIT, the crowd-powered Cortana scheduling assistant at Microsoft, and several social AR and wearable experiences at Snap Inc. At Princeton, he directs the Human-computer Interaction Lab, focusing on public-interest technology development.

His research has received best paper awards at CHI, CSCW, HCOMP, and ICWSM, and has been featured in The New York Times, CNN, Wired, BBC, and The Economist. He was the technical program co-chair for the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’18) and the ACM Conference on Collective Intelligence (CI ’19). He was named one of the most influential Latinos in Tech by CNET and one of the MIT Technology Review’s 35-under-35 Innovators for his research on citizens’ use of social media to circumvent drug cartel violence and censorship.

Andrés was in the leadership team of the Future Social Experiences Lab at Microsoft Research and founded the HCI research team at Snap Inc. He holds a master’s and Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab and a BS in electronics engineering from Tec de Monterrey in México.

Arvind Narayanan

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

609-258-9302
308 Sherrerd Hall

Arvind (Ph.D. 2009) is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Princeton. He studies information privacy and security and has a side-interest in technology policy. His research has shown that data anonymization is broken in fundamental ways, for which he jointly received the 2008 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award. Narayanan leads the Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability project that aims to uncover how companies are collecting and using our personal information. He also studies the security and stability of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

Arvind is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at @random_walker.

Markus Prior

Associate Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School.
Co-Director, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics

609-258-2749
313 Robertson Hall

Markus studies the ways that new communications technologies shape political behavior. He is the author of the book Post-Broadcast Democracy: How Media Choice Increases Inequality in Political Involvement and Polarizes Elections. His research interest include audience measurement for old and new media.<

Paul E. Starr

Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School
Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs

609-258-4533
124 Wallace Hall

Paul is the co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect. At Princeton he holds the Stuart Chair in Communications and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School. He received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and Bancroft Prize in American History for The Social Transformation of American Medicine and the 2005 Goldsmith Book Prize for The Creation of the Media. His most recent book Freedom’s Power, on the history and promise of liberalism, is now out in paperback.

Brandon Stewart

Assistant Professor of Sociology

609-258-5094
149 Wallace Hall

Brandon Stewart is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and is also affiliated with the Department of Politics and the Office of Population Research. He develops new quantitative statistical methods for applications across the social sciences. Methodologically his focus is in tools which facilitate automated text analysis and model complex heterogeneity in regression. Many recent applications of these methods have centered on using large corpora of text to better understand propaganda in contemporary China. His research has been published in journals such as American Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis and the Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics. His work has won the Edward R Chase Dissertation Prize, the Gosnell Prize for Excellence in Political Methodology, and the Political Analysis Editor’s Choice Award.

Rory Truex

Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School

609-258-2180
440 Robertson Hall

Rory Truex is assistant professor of Politics and Public Affairs. He studies comparative politics, focusing on Chinese politics and non-democratic regimes. His dissertation and book project, “Representation Within Bounds,” explains the nature of legislator behavior in China’s National People’s Congress. His research on Chinese politics is published or forthcoming in the American Political Science Review and Comparative Political Studies, and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Current projects explore how Chinese citizens evaluate their political system; the relationship between media bias and credibility in non-democracies; and patterns in dissident behavior and punishment. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton in 2007 and Ph.D. in political science from Yale in 2014.

Janet Vertesi

Assistant Professor of Sociology

609-258-8724
122 Wallace Hall

Janet is a sociologist of science and technology who is interested the relationships between science, technology and society. Her research focuses on NASA robotic spacecraft teams, and how organizational dynamics matter to team decision-making, data-sharing, and scientific results. She also works in Human-Computer Interaction, where her publications include topics such as scientific data-sharing, GPS tracking and notions of privacy, personal archiving practices, and technologies in transnational context. At Princeton, Janet runs Tech/Soc, an interdisciplinary reading group co-sponsored by CITP devoted to questions of technology and society; her courses on the Sociology of Technology are accredited towards the Certificate in Information Technology and Society.

Swati Bhatt

Lecturer of Public and International Affairs

609-258-4501
101 Fisher Hall

Swati Bhatt has been teaching at Princeton since 1992. Her research interests are industrial organization, applied microeconomics and finance. She was Director of Student Programs, covering both the Undergraduate Certificate in Finance and the Master in Finance, at the Bendheim Center for Finance from 2000-2007. She greatly enjoys interacting with students and has taught courses in Finance, at the graduate and undergraduate level, undergraduate courses in Industrial Organization and Intermediate Microeconomics and supervised over 120 senior theses. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton in 1986, worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1985 to 1990 and taught at the Stern School of Business at New York University from 1990 to 1992, before returning to Princeton’s Economics Department.