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Alessandro
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Benvenuto, straniero. Update: If you are here for the face recognition study, please visit this link. Update: Post-doc and PhD positions are available for the 2011 academic year. I am an
Associate Professor of Information Technology and
Public Policy at the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University and the co-director
of CMU Center for Behavioral Decision Research (CBDR). I am also a member of
the CMU Usable Privacy and Security
Laboratory, of CMU CyLab, and of the National Academies' Committee on
public response to alerts and warnings using social media and associated
privacy considerations. 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 as well as privacy in online social networks. I received the PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, the IBM Best Academic Privacy Faculty Award, and the Heinz College Teaching Excellence Award. Two of my manuscripts were selected by the Future of Privacy Forum in their best "Privacy Papers for Policy Makers" competition. 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 co-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 and behavioral economics of privacy and information security, privacy and security in online social networks, economics of computers and AI, agents economics, computational economics, ecommerce, cryptography, anonymity, electronic voting, and Nutella .
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