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Benvenuto, straniero.

I am an Associate Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University.  I am also a member of the CMU Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory, a member of CMU Privacy Technology Center, and a member of CMU Cylab.

Prior to joining CMU Faculty, I researched with the Internet Ecologies group at the Xerox PARC labs in Palo Alto (as intern); with the Human-Centered Computing group at RIACS, NASA Ames Research Center (as visiting student); and at SIMS, UC Berkeley, where I received a Master and a Ph.D. in Information Systems in 2001 and 2003. I received a Master in Economics from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1999; and a Master in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics also in 1999.

I research, primarily, the economics of privacy and the behavioral economics of privacy.I received the PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies and the IBM Best Academic Privacy Faculty Award.

I am a member of the program committee of several privacy and security conferences and workshops (the complete list is available in my CV). I have chaired the DIMACS Workshop on Information Security Economics, the WEIS Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, and the Workshop on Security and Human Behavior with Ross Anderson, Bruce Schneier, and George Loewenstein.

I have co-edited the book: Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies, and Practices.

My research interests include: economics of privacy and behavioral economics of privacy and information security, economics of computers and AI, agents economics, computational economics, ecommerce, cryptography, anonymity, electronic voting, and  Nutella.

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Alessandro Acquisti
Heinz College
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Av, HBH 2105C
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
acquisti @ andrew.cmu.edu

Location

2105C Hamburg Hall
Office hours: Mondays 2-4 and by appointment

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