Alessandro Acquisti

Alessandro Acquisti
acquisti @ andrew.cmu.edu www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti

Academic Positions
2009-present	Associate Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College.
2003-2009	Assistant Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University Heinz School.
2006-present	Visiting Professor University of Rome, Tor Vergata Department of Economics, Master in eProcurement.
Spring 2009	Visiting Professor University of Paris-Sud Department of Economics.
Spring 2009	Visiting Professor University of Freiburg Institute of Computer Science and Social Studies.


Education
2003	Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Information Management and Systems School of Information Management and Systems. Committee: Hal Varian (chair), John Chuang, Doug Tygar, Florian Zettelmeyer.
2001	M.I.M.S., UC Berkeley, Information Management and Systems School of Information Management and Systems.
1999	M.Sc., London School of Economics, Econometrics and Mathematical Economics Department of Economics.
1999	M.Litt., Trinity College Dublin , Economics Department of Economics. Advisor: Hartmut Lehmann.
1997	Laurea 110/110 cum laude and "Publication worthy" special mention ("Dignita' di pubblicazione"), University of Rome, La Sapienza, Economics and Business Department of Economics. Advisor: Mario Baldassarri.


Awards, Honors, and Scholarships
2008-present	Ponemon Institute Fellow.
2005	PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies. (Also nominated in 2003.)
2005	IBM Best Academic Privacy Faculty Award.
2005	Nominated for Heinz School MISM Program Teaching Excellence Award.
2003-2007	IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor) Research Fellow.
2002	UC Berkeley Graduate Division Dean's Normative Time Fellowship.
1998-1999	Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Scholarship.
1998	Royal Irish Academy Post-Graduate Award.
1996-1997	Erasmus Scholarship.
1991	Scuola Normale di Pisa pre-university stage.


Grants
External Sources	Core Faculty Member. "IGERT: Usable Privacy and Security," National Science Foundation (Grant awarded: $3.2M). PI: Lorrie Cranor, 2009.
	Co-PI. "Beyond Search: Semantic Computing and Internet Economics," Microsoft Corporation (Grant awarded: $60,000). PI: Lorrie Cranor, 2008.
	PI, "Evaluating and Enhancing Privacy and Information Sharing in Online Social Networks," National Science Foundation IIS (Grant awarded: $387,606), 2007-2010.
	Study Resource Team Member, "Composing the Right Mix of Humans & Technology for Lunar Surface Exploration," National Aeronautics & Space Administration unsolicited BlueSky proposal (Share of grant awarded: $9,000). PI: Dr. Kenneth M. Ford (Institute for Human & Machine Cognition), 2006-2007.
	Co-PI, "What is It To You? A Survey of Online Privacy Concerns and Risks," NET Institute Summer Grant (Grant awarded: $3,000). With: Janice Tsai, Christina Fong, and Lorrie Cranor (PI), 2006.
	PI, "Attention Economics in Information-rich Environments," Carnegie Mellon University CyLab and Humboldt Foundation Transcoop Award (Share of grant awarded: $36,000). Co-PI: Prof. Sarah Spiekermann (Humboldt University, Berlin), 2005-2008.
	Co-PI, "Preventing Semantic Attacks," National Science Foundation Cyber Trust (Grant awarded: $1,6M). With Sven Dietrich, Julie Downs, Jason Hong, Norman Sadeh, and Lorrie Cranor (PI), 2005-2008.
	Team Leader, "End-to-end Mission Modeling and Simulation Environment," National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Human & Robotic Technology Broad Agency Announcement 04-02 Award (Grant originally awarded: $14M). PI: Dr. Maarten Sierhuis, 2005-2006.

Internal Sources	Co-PI. "Weaving Together Technology Innovation with Human and Policy Considerations," CMU-Portugal ICTI. PI: Norman Sadeh, 2008.
	Co-PI. "Privacy Decision Making," Carnegie Mellon University CyLab (Grant awarded: $185,000). PI: Lorrie Cranor, 2008-2009.
	PI, "Personal Information Revelation in Online Social Networks: Cross-cultural Effects," Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Seed Funding (Grant awarded: $28,000), 2007.
	PI, "Personal Information Security and Online Social Networks," Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Seed Funding (Grant awarded: $31,500), 2006.
	Co-PI, "Supporting Trust Decisions," Carnegie Mellon University CyLab (Grant awarded: $204,000). PI: Dr. Lorrie Cranor, 2005-2008.
	PI, "Understanding the Dichotomy: An Experimental Approach to Privacy Attitudes and Behavior," Carnegie Mellon University Berkman Faculty Development Award (Grant awarded: $9,000), 2003-2004.


Publications
Journal Articles	[J10] "Predicting Social Security Numbers from Public Data," Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, forthcoming 2009.
Journal Articles	[J9] "Behavioral Research and Empirical Modeling of Marketing Channels: Implications for both Fields and a Call for Future Research," Robert J. Meyer, Joachim Vosgerau, Vishal Singh, Joel E. Urbany, Gal Zauberman, Michael I. Norton, Tony H. Cui, Brian T. Ratchford, Alessandro Acquisti, David R. Bell, Barbara E. Kahn. Marketing Letters, forthcoming 2009.
	[J8] "Privacy Costs and Personal Data Protection: Economic and Legal Perspectives," Sasha Romanosky and Alessandro Acquisti, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, forthcoming 2009.
	[J7] "Teaching Johnny not to Fall for Phish," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Steve Sheng, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Cranor, and Jason Hong. Conditionally accepted, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2009.
	[J6] "The Effect of Online Privacy Information on Purchasing Behavior: An Experimental Study," Janice Tsai, Serge Egelman, Lorrie Cranor, and Alessandro Acquisti. Conditionally accepted, Information Systems Research, 2009.
	[J5] "Identity Management, Privacy, and Price Discrimination," Alessandro Acquisti, IEEE Security and Privacy, 6(2), 46-50, 2008.
	[J4] "Conditioning Prices on Purchase History," Alessandro Acquisti and Hal Varian. Marketing Science, 24(3), 1-15, 2005.
	[J3] "Privacy and Rationality in Decision Making," Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. IEEE Security and Privacy, 3(1), 26-33, 2005.
	[J2] "Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti. Rivista di Politica Economica, V/VI, 319-368, 2005.
	[J1] "Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation," Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth, and Alessandro Acquisti. Journal of Comparative Economics, 27, 595-617, 1999.

Working/Submitted Papers	[J11] "The Impact of Relative Judgements on Concern about Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George Loewenstein.
Working/Submitted Papers	[J12] "The Best of Strangers: Context-dependent Willingness to Divulge Personal Information," Leslie John , Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein.
	[J13] "Social Insecurity: The Unintended Consequences of the Identity Theft Prevention Policies," Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross.
	[J14] "Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?," Sasha Romanosky, Rahul Telang, and Alessandro Acquisti.
	[J15] "Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Russian Federation," Alessandro Acquisti and Hartmut Lehmann.
	[J16] "Do Pop-ops Pay Off? The Economic Impact of Attention-consuming Advertising Interruptions," Alessandro Acquisti and Sarah Spiekermann.
	[J17] "On the Valuation of Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George Loewenstein.
	[J18] "US Consumers reaction to FACTA," Bin Zhang and Alessandro Acquisti.
	[J19] "The Impact of Privacy Breaches: An Event Study" Allan Friedman and Alessandro Acquisti.
	[J20] "Inducing Customers to Try New Goods," Alessandro Acquisti.
	[J21] "When 25 Cents is Enough: Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept for Personal Information," Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags.
	[J22] "Government-Scale Monetary Forgery: Economics and Countermeasures," Nicolas Christin, Alessandro Acquisti, Bryan Parno, and Adrian Perrig.
	[J23] "Real World Experiments of Anti-Phishing Training," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Steve Sheng, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Cranor, and Jason Hong.
	[J24] "The Impact of Privacy Indicators on Search Engine Browsing Patterns," Janice Tsai, Serge Egelman, Lorrie Cranor, and Alessandro Acquisti.
	[J25] "A Model of Trust in Phishing Scenario," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Alessandro Acquisti, and Lorrie Cranor.

Books	[B1] Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies and Practices. Alessandro Acquisti, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Stefanos Gritzalis, Costas Lambrinoudakis (eds). Auerbach Publications (Taylor and Francis Group), 2007.

Book Chapters	[C7] “What Can Behavioral Economics Teach Us About Privacy?” Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. In Alessandro Acquisti, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Stefanos Gritzalis, Costas Lambrinoudakis (eds), Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies and Practices, Auerbach Publications (Taylor and Francis Group), 363-377, 2007.
	[C6] "Note sull'Economia della Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti. In V. Cuffaro, R. D’Orazio, V. Ricciuto (eds), Il Codice del Trattamento dei Dati Personali, Giappichelli, 907-920, 2007.
	[C5] "Ubiquitous Computing, Customer Tracking, and Price Discrimination," Alessandro Acquisti. In G. Roussos (ed), Ubiquitous Commerce, Springer-Verlag, 115-132, 2005.
	[C4] "Privacy and Rationality: A Survey," Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. In K. Strandburg and D. Raicu (eds), Privacy and Technologies of Identity: A Cross -Disciplinary Conversation, Springer-Verlag, 15-29, 2005.
	[C3] "Privacy and Security of Personal Information: Technological Solutions and Economic Incentives," Alessandro Acquisti. In J. Camp and R. Lewis (eds), The Economics of Information Security, Kluwer, 165-178, 2004.
	[C2] "Losses, Gains, and Hyperbolic Discounting: Privacy Attitudes and Privacy Behavior," Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. In J. Camp and R. Lewis (eds), The Economics of Information Security, Kluwer, 179-186, 2004.
	[C1] "Adjustable Autonomy and Human-Agent Teamwork in Practice: An Interim Report on Space Applications," J. M. Bradshaw, M. Sierhuis, A. Acquisti, P. Feltovich, R. Hoffman, R. Jeffers, D. Prescott, N. Suri, A. Uszok, and R. van Hoof. In H. Hexmoor, C. Castelfranchi, and R. Falcone (eds), Agent Autonomy. Kluwer, 243-280, 2003.

Refereed Conferences and Workshops Proceedings	[P24] "Timing Is Everything? The Effects of Timing and Placement of Online Privacy Indicators," Serge Egelman, Janice Tsai, Lorrie Cranor, and Alessandro Acquisti. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2009.
Refereed Conferences and Workshops Proceedings	[P23] "School of Phish: A Real-world Evaluation of Anti-Phishing Training," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Justin Cranshaw, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Cranor, Jason Hong, Mary Ann Blair, Theodore Pham. Proceedings of the 2009 Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2009.
	[P22] "Countermeasures against Government-Scale Monetary Forgery", Alessandro Acquisti, Nicolas Christin, Bryan Parno, and Adrian Perrig, (Short paper), Proceedings of Financial Cryptography Conference (FC), Springer, 2008. Forthcoming.
	[P21] "Anti-Phishing Education," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Steve Sheng, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Cranor, and Jason Hong. Proceedings of The International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace (ICELW), 2008. Forthcoming.
	[P20] "Lessons From a Real World Evaluation of Anti-Phishing Training," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Steve Sheng, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Cranor, and Jason Hong. Proceedings of the eCrime Researchers Summit (eCRS), ACM, 2008. Forthcoming.
	[P19] "The Effect of Online Privacy Information on Purchasing Behavior: An Experimental Study," Janice Tsai, Serge Egelman, Lorrie Cranor, and Alessandro Acquisti. Proceedings of the International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS), 2007. [21% acceptance rate]
	[P18]. “Protecting People from Phishing: The Design and Evaluation of an Embedded Training Email System,” Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Yong Rhee, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Jason Hong, and Elizabeth Nunge. Proceedings of the Computer-Human Interaction Conference (CHI), CHI Letters 9(1), 905-914, 2007. [25% acceptance rate]
	[P17] "Anti-Phishing Phil: The Design and Evaluation of a Game That Teaches People Not to Fall for Phish," Steve Sheng, Bryant Magnien, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Cranor, Jason Hong, and Elizabeth Nunge. Proceedings of the 2007 Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), ACM, 88-99, 2007. [32% acceptance rate]
	[P16] "Getting Users to Pay Attention to Anti-Phishing Education: Evaluation of Retention and Transfer," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Yong Rhee, Steve Sheng, S. Hasan, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Cranor and Jason Hong. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual eCrime Researchers Summit, October 4-5, 2007, ACM, 0-81. [37% acceptance rate]
	[P15] “Is There a Cost to Privacy Breaches? An Event Study,” Alessandro Acquisti, Allan Friedman, and Rahul Telang. Proceedings of the International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS), 2006. [10% acceptance rate in the Security track]
	[P14] “Power Strips, Prophylactics, and Privacy, Oh My!,” Julia Gideon, Serge Egelman, Lorrie Cranor, and Alessandro Acquisti. Proceedings of the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), ACM, 133-144, 2006. [36% acceptance rate]
	[P13] “Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook,” Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross. Proceedings of Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop (PET), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4258, Springer, 36-58, 2006. [26% acceptance rate]
	[P12] “Trust Modeling for Online Transactions: A phishing scenario,” Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Alessandro Acquisti, and Lorrie Faith Cranor. Proceedings of Privacy Security Trust Conference (PST), 2006. [30% acceptance rate]
	[P11] “Privacy Patterns for Online Interactions,” Sasha Romanosky, Alessandro Acquisti, Jason Hong, Lorrie Cranor, and Batya Friedman. Proceedings of Pattern Languages of Programs Conference (PLOP), ACM, 1-9, 2006.
	[P10] “Agent-based Mission Modeling and Simulation.” M. Sierhuis, W.J. Clancey, C. Seah, A. Acquisti, D. Bushnell, B. Damer, N. Dorighi, L. Edwards, L. Faithorn, L. Flueckiger, R. v Hoof, D. Lees, A. Nandkumar, C. Neukom, M. Scott, M. Sims, R. Wales, S.-Y. Wang, J. Wood, J., and B. Zhang. Proceedings of Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium (ADS), at the Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim), 2006.
	[P9] "Information Revelation and Privacy in Online Social Networks," Ralph Gross and Alessandro Acquisti. Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), ACM, 71-80, 2005. [23% acceptance rate for long papers]
	[P8] "Privacy in Electronic Commerce and the Economics of Immediate Gratification," Alessandro Acquisti. Proceedings of the ACM Electronic Commerce Conference (ACM EC), ACM, 21-29, 2004. *(Winner of the 2005 PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.)* [16% acceptance rate]
	[P7] "Teamwork-Centered Autonomy for Extended Human-Agent Interaction in Space Applications," Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Alessandro Acquisti, et al. Proceedings of the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposia - Interaction between Humans and Autonomous Systems over Extended Operation, AAAI Press, 2004.
	[P6] "On the Economics of Anonymity," Alessandro Acquisti, Roger Dingledine, and Paul Syverson. Proceedings of the Financial Cryptography Conference (FC), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2742, Springer-Verlag, 84-102, 2003. *(Nominated for the 2003 PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.)* [26% acceptance rate]
	[P5]. "Human-Agent Teamwork and Adjustable Autonomy in Practice," Maarten Sierhuis, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Alessandro Acquisti, Ron van Hoof, Renia Jeffers, and Andrzej Uszok. Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (I-Sairas). Nara, Japan, May 2003.
	[P4] "Living With Agents and Liking It: Addressing the Technical and Social Acceptability of Agent Technology," Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Maarten Sierhuis, Alessandro Acquisti, Paul Feltovich, Robert Hoffman, Renia Jeffers, Niranjan Suri, Andrzej Uszok, and Ron Van Hoof. Proceedings of the 2003 AAAI Spring Symposia - Human Interaction with Autonomous Systems in Complex Environments, AAAI Press, SS-03-04, 15-23, 2003.
	[P3] "Representation and Reasoning for DAML-based Policy and Domain Services in KaOS and Nomads," J. M. Bradshaw, A. Uszok, R. Jeffers, N. Suri, P. Hayes, M. Burstein, A. Acquisti, et al. Proceedings of the Second ACM International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 03), ACM Press, 835-842, 2003.
	[P2] "Multi-agent Plan Execution and Work Practice: Modeling plans and practices onboard the ISS," Maarten Sierhuis, Alessandro Acquisti, and William Clancey. Proceedings of the Third International NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space. Houston, TX, October 2002.
	[P1] "Agent-based Modeling of Collaboration and Work Practices onboard the International Space Station," Alessandro Acquisti, Maarten Sierhuis , William Clancey, and Jeffrey Bradshaw. Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Computer-Generated Forces and Behavior Representation (CGF), 181-188, 2002.

Refereed Conferences and Workshops with Online Proceedings	[J9b] "The Impact of Relative Judgements on Concern about Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George Loewenstein. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2009.
	[J12b] "Social Insecurity: The Unintended Consequences of the Identity Theft Prevention Policies," Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2009.
	[OP7] "I just found 10 million SSNs," Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross. Proceedings of the 2009 BlackHat US Conference. Las Vegas, 2009. (Abstract refereed and presentation proceedings.)
	[12b] "Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?," Sasha Romanosky, Rahul Telang, and Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2008.
	[20b] "When 25 Cents is too much: An Experiment on Willingness-To-Sell and Willingness-To-Protect Personal Information,” Jens Grossklags and Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2007. [41% acceptance rate]
	[7b] “The Effect of Online Privacy Information on Purchasing Behavior: An Experimental Study,” Janice Tsai, Serge Egelman, Lorrie Cranor, and Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2007. [41% acceptance rate]
	[16b] “Financial privacy for free? US consumers’ response to FACTA,” Alessandro Acquisti and Bin Zhang. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2006. [53% acceptance rate]
	[17b] "Is There a Cost to Privacy Breaches? An Event Study" Alessandro Acquisti, Allan Friedman, and Rahul Telang. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2006. [53% acceptance rate]
	[39b] “What can behavioral economics teach us about privacy?” Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Security (ETRICS), 2006. (Invited paper.)
	[17b] “Understanding the Impact of Privacy Breaches,” Alessandro Acquisti, Allan Friedman, and Rahul Telang. 35th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC), 2006.
	[2b] “Privacy, Anonymity, and Price Discrimination,” Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on Privacy-Enhanced Personalization at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference (CHI), 2006.
	[52b] “Studying the Impact of Privacy Information on Online Purchase Decisions,” Serge Egelman, Janice Tsai, Lorrie Cranor, and Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on Privacy and HCI: Methodologies for Studying Privacy Issues, at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference (CHI), 2006.
	[36b] "Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), Harvard University, 2005.
	[OP8] "Darknets, DRM, and Trusted Computing: Economic Incentives for Platform Providers," Alessandro Acquisti. Telecommunication Policy Research Conference (TPRC), Washington, DC, 2004.
	[OP7] "Privacy, Economics, and Immediate Gratification: Why Protecting Privacy is Easy, but Selling it Is Not," Alessandro Acquisti. Proceedings of the 2004 BlackHat US Conference. Las Vegas, 2004. (Abstract refereed and presentation proceedings.)
	[4b] "Privacy and Rationality: Preliminary Evidence from Survey Data," Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS), University of Minnesota, 2004.
	[OP6] "Balance of Power on eBay: Peers or Unequals?," Ben Gross and Alessandro Acquisti. First Workshop on the Economics of P2P Networks, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, 2003.
	[44b] "Losses, Gains, and Hyperbolic Discounting: An Experimental Approach to Personal Information Security Attitudes and Behavior," Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS), University of Maryland, 2003.
	[OP5] "Protecting Privacy with Economics: Economic Incentives for Preventive Technologies in Ubiquitous Computing Environments," Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on Socially-informed Design of Privacy-enhancing Solutions at the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP). Goteborg, Sweden, 2002. (Invited paper.)
	[41b] "Security of Personal Information and Privacy: Technological Solutions and Economic Incentives," Alessandro Acquisti. First Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS), UC Berkeley, 2002.
	[OP4] "An User-centric MIX-net Protocol to Protect Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on Privacy in Digital Environments: Empowering Users at the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), New Orleans, LA, 2002.
	[OP3] "What We Can Learn About Human-Agent Teamwork From Practice," J. Bradshaw, M. Sierhuis, A. Acquisti, Y. Gawdiak, D. Prescott, R. Jeffers, N. Suri, and R. van Hoof. Workshop on Teamwork and Coalition Formation, ACM International Joint Conference Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS), Bologna, Italy, 2002.
	[OP2] "A Work Practice Model of a Day in the Life Onboard the International Space Station," Alessandro Acquisti and Maarten Sierhuis. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory Conference (CASOS), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2002. (Abstract refereed and abstract proceedings.)
	[OP1] "Agent-based Modeling of Collaboration and Work Practices onboard the International Space Station," Alessandro Acquisti, Maarten Sierhuis, William Clancey, and Jeffrey Bradshaw. UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference on Computational Social Science: Agent-Based Modeling in the Social Sciences, Lake Arrowhead, CA, 2002. (Abstract refereed and abstracts proceedings.)

Refereed Conferences and Workshops without Proceedings	[J28b] "Privacy Concerns and Information Disclosure: An Illusion of Control Hypothesis," Laura Brandimarte, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2009. (Presented by Laura Brandimarte.)
Refereed Conferences and Workshops without Proceedings	[J28b] "Privacy Concerns and Information Disclosure: An Illusion of Control Hypothesis," Laura Brandimarte, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. Computer Freedom and Privacy (CFP) Research Showcase, 2009. (Presented by Laura Brandimarte.)
	[J12b] "Inferring Sensitive Information from online public data," Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross. Workshop on Statistical Challenges in eCommerce Research (SCECR), 2009
	[J28b] "Privacy Costs and Personal Data Protection: Economic and Legal Perspectives," Sasha Romanosky and Alessandro Acquisti. INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2009. (Presented by Sasha Romanosky.)
	[J11b] "The Best of Strangers: Context-dependent Willingness to Divulge Personal Information," Leslie John , Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. 5th Annual Whitebox Advisors Graduate Student Conference, Yale University, April 2009. (Presented by Leslie John.)
	[J16b] "Do Pop-ops Pay Off? The Economic Impact of Attention-consuming Advertising Interruptions," Alessandro Acquisti and Sarah Spiekermann. Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Paris, FR, 2008.
	[J11b] "On the Valuation of Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George Loewenstein. INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2008. (Presented by Leslie John.)
	[9b] “Searching for Privacy in all the Wrong Places: A Behavioral Economics Perspective on Individual Concern for Privacy,” Leslie John, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. Oral presentation, Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference (BDRM), La Jolla, CA, 2008. (Presented by Leslie John.)
	[9b] “Searching for Privacy in all the Wrong Places: A Behavioral Economics Perspective on Individual Concern for Privacy,” Leslie John, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. Oral presentation, at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making 28th Annual Conference, Long Beach, CA, 2007. (Presented by Leslie John.)
	[17b] “Is There a Cost to Privacy Breaches? An Event Study,” 2007 Informs Marketing Conference, Special Session: Privacy, Marketing Strategy, and Policy. Singapore, 2007.
	[12b] "Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?" Sasha Romanosky, Rahul Telang, and Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Montreal, CA, 2007.
	[12b] "Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?" Sasha Romanosky, Rahul Telang, and Alessandro Acquisti. International Symposium of Information Systems 2006, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India, December 2007.
	[17b] “Is There a Cost to Privacy Breaches? An Event Study,” Alessandro Acquisti, Allan Friedman, and Rahul Telang. International Symposium of Information Systems 2006, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India, December 2006
	[36b] "Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. Canadian Law and Economics Association Conference (CLEA), Toronto, Canada, September 2005.
	[77] "The Economics of Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti. Panel at the Computer Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP), Seattle, WA, April 2005. (Panel organizer and moderator. Panelists: Curtis Taylor, Ben Hermalin, Il-Horn Hann, Robert Gellman, Jim Harper.)
	[66b] "Darknets, DRM, and Trusted Computing: Economic Incentives for Platform Providers," Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), University of Maryland, 2004. (Online abstract proceedings.)
	[78] "Inducing Customers to Try New Goods," Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Seattle, WA, December 2003.
	[3b] "Conditioning Prices on Purchase History," Alessandro Acquisti and Hal Varian. European Economic Association Conference (EEA), Venice, Italy, August 2002.
	[3b] "Conditioning Prices on Purchase History," Alessandro Acquisti and Hal Varian. Workshop on Information Dynamics in the Networked Society, Palo Alto, CA, April 2002.
	[WP2] "Adjustable Autonomy and Teamwork for the Personal Satellite Assistant." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 01), Seattle , WA , August 2001. (Presented by Maarten Sierhuis and Alessandro Acquisti. An earlier version in the proceedings is by: J. M. Bradshaw, M. Sierhuis, Y. Gawdiak, R. Jeffers, N. Suri, and M. Greaves.)
	[13b] "Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Russian Federation," Alessandro Acquisti and Hartmut Lehmann. International Atlantic Economic Association Conference (IAEAC), Boston, MA, October 1998.
	[WP1] "'Intelligent' vs. Human Capital in the Endogenous/Exogenous Growth Debate," Alessandro Acquisti and Mario Baldassarri. ASSET Meeting, Bologna, Italy, October 1998.
	[6b] "Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation," Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth and Alessandro Acquisti. European Economic Association Conference (EEA), Berlin, Germany, September 1998.
	[13b] "Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Russian Federation," Alessandro Acquisti and Hartmut Lehmann. Irish Economic Association Conference (IEAC), Limavady, Ireland, April 1998.
	[77b] "'Intelligent' vs. Human Capital in the Endogenous/Exogenous Growth Debate," Alessandro Acquisti and Mario Baldassarri. Irish Economic Association Conference (IEAC), Limavady, Ireland, April 1998.
	[6b] "Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation," Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth, and Alessandro Acquisti. Labor Markets in Transition Economies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, September 1997.
	[6b] "Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation," Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth, and Alessandro Acquisti. EERC Conference on Economic Transition in CEE and Russia: Theory and Empirical Evidence, Moscow, Russia, September 1997.

Refereed Tutorials	[RT1] "Modeling and Simulating Work Practice with the Brahms Multi-agent Environment," Alessandro Acquisti, Maarten Sierhuis, and Chin Seah. Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS), Universal City, CA, May 2005. (Tutorial contributor. Tutorial presenters: Maarten Sierhuis and Chin Seah.)

Unrefereed Tutorials	[UT1] "Brahms Tutorial," Alessandro Acquisti, William Clancey, Ron van Hoof, Mike Scott and Maarten Sierhuis. Brahms TM01-0002, 167 pages, NASA Ames Research Center, 2001.

Refereed Posters	[RP4] "Privacy Concerns and Information Disclosure: An Illusion of Control Hypothesis," Laura Brandimarte, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. Computer Freedom and Privacy (CFP) Research Showcase Poster, 2009. (Presented by Laura Brandimarte.)
	[RP4] "Privacy Concerns and Information Disclosure: An Illusion of Control Hypothesis," Laura Brandimarte, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. iConference, 2009. (Presented by Laura Brandimarte.)
	[RP3] “Searching for Privacy in all the Wrong Places: A Behavioral Economics Perspective on Individual Concern for Privacy,” Leslie John, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. Judgment and Decision Making PreConference (JDM) at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM, 2008. (Presented by Leslie John.)
	[RP2] "Testing PhishGuru in the Real World," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Steve Sheng, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Cranor and Jason Hong. Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2008.
	[RP1] “Symbols of Privacy,” Janice Tsai, Serge Egelman, Rachel Shipman, Kok-Chie Daniel Pu, Lorrie Cranor, and Alessandro Acquisti. Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2006.

Unrefereed Posters	[UP1] “Trust and Mental Models of Online Security Threats,” Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Alessandro Acquisti, Julie Downs, and Mandy Holbrook. Carnegie Mellon CyLab Corporate Partners Meeting, April 2006.

Articles in Magazines and Newspapers	[A1] "Trusted Computing e la Lotta per il Controllo del Vostro PC," Alessandro Acquisti. Il Sole 24 Ore, September 1, 2005.

Technical Reports	[TR7] "Security Issues and Recommendations for Online Social Networks," Alessandro Acquisti and Various Authors, ENISA Position Paper No. 1, 2008.
	[21b] "Government-Scale Monetary Forgery: Economics and Countermeasures," Nicolas Christin, Alessandro Acquisti, Bryan Parno, and Adrian Perrig. CyLab Technical Report CMU-CyLab-07-016, 2007.
	[11b] "Teaching Johnny Not to Fall for Phish," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Steve Sheng, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Faith Cranor, and Jason Hong. CyLab Tech Report, 2007.
	[TR6] “What’s It To You? A Survey of Online Privacy Concerns and Risks,” Janice Tsai, Lorrie Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti, and Christina Fong. NET Institute Working Paper #06-29, 2006.
	[TR5] "Receipt-Free Homomorphic Elections and Write-in Ballots," Alessandro Acquisti. Technical Report 2004/105, International Association for Cryptologic Research, May 2, 2004, and Carnegie Mellon Institute for Software Research International, CMU-ISRI-04-116, 2004.
	[TR4] "Adjustable Autonomy and Human-Agent Teamwork in Practice: An Interim Report on Space Applications," J. M. Bradshaw, M. Sierhuis, A. Acquisti, P. Feltovich, R. Hoffman, R. Jeffers, D. Prescott, N. Suri, A. Uszok, and R. van Hoof. RTO/NATO, The Role of Humans in Intelligent and Automated Systems, RTO-MP-088, 2003.
	[TR3] "Tacit Collusion, Competition and Winner-take-all in E-commerce," Alessandro Acquisti and Bernardo Huberman. UC Berkeley and Xerox PARC, 2001.
	[TR2] "ISS/PSA Brahms Model," Alessandro Acquisti and Maarten Sierhuis. Brahms TM01-0004, NASA Ames Research Center, 2001.
	[13b] "Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Russian Federation," Alessandro Acquisti and Hartmut Lehmann. Trinity Economic Papers, 1/00, 2000.
	[6b] "Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation," Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth and Alessandro Acquisti. CEP Working Paper, 403; IFO Discussion Paper, 56/1998; William Davidson Institute Working Paper, 103; Trinity Economic Papers, 6/98; Licos Discussion Paper, 79/1999; and CIDEI - Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza" Working Paper, 1999.
	[TR1] "Von Neumann's Legacy: 'Intelligent' Capital in a Weightless Economy," Alessandro Acquisti. Trinity Economic Papers, 18/98, 1998.
	[77b] "'Intelligent' vs. Human Capital in the Endogenous/Exogenous Growth Debate," Alessandro Acquisti and Mario Baldassarri. Trinity Economic Papers, 19/98, 1998.

Theses	[T3] "Essays on Privacy, Anonymity, and Tracking in Computer-mediated Economic Transactions, " Alessandro Acquisti, Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley. Committee: Dean Hal R. Varian, Chair (UC Berkeley, SIMS); Prof. John Chuang (UC Berkeley, SIMS); Prof. Doug Tygar (UC Berkeley, CS and SIMS); Prof. Florian Zettelmeyer (UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business).
Theses	[T2] "Labour Dynamics in the Russian Federation ," Alessandro Acquisti. M.Litt. Thesis, Trinity College Dublin, 1998. Department of Economics. Advisor: Prof. Hartmut Lehmann.
	[T1] "Intelligenza Artificiale e Crescita Economica: Il Capitale Intelligente ed Autoriproducente da von Neumann alla Crescita Endogena," [Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth: Intelligent Capital and Self-reproduction from von Neumann to Endogenous Growth Theory], Alessandro Acquisti. Tesi di Laurea in Economia e Commercio, University of Rome La Sapienza, 1997. Grade: 110/110 cum laude (with honors) and special award Dignita' di pubblicazione ("Worthy of publication"). Advisor: Prof. Mario Baldassarri. Co-advisor: Prof. Luigia Carlucci Aiello.

Patents Pending or Under Submission	[PP2] "A Network Communication Technique for Anonymous Payments," Alessandro Acquisti.
Patents Pending or Under Submission	[PP1] "A Communication Technique to Verify and Send Information Anonymously among Many Parties," Alessandro Acquisti.

Software Artifacts	[SA1] Anti-Phishing Phil. A game designed to teach people not to fall for phishing attacks. The game was played over 50000 times since 2007. Licensed to two different companies, and translated into Portuguese. Available under a non-commercial Creative Commons license, known users include Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/antiphishing_phil


Selected Presentations
Keynote Speeches	ZEW Web 2.0 Symposium, Mannheim, November 2009.
	HotPETS 2009, Seattle, August 2009.
	6th International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in Digital Business (TrustBus), Linz, Austria, August 2009.
	3rd Electronic Health Information and Privacy Conference (EHIPC), "A Behavioral Approach to Privacy Concerns," Ottawa, December 2007.
	International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Security (ETRICS). "What can Behavioral Economics Teach us about Privacy?" Freiburg, Germany, June 2006.

Selected Invited Panels	Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), "A Broader View of Cyber Security Economics," London, June 2009.
	Computer Freedom and Privacy (CFP), Plenary panel on "The Psychology of Security and Privacy." Washington DC, June 2009.
	First Annual Federal Trade Commission & Northwestern University FTC Microeconomics Conference, "The Behavioral Economics of Privacy," FTC, Washington DC, November 2008.
	Yale Symposiums on Reputation Economies in Cyberspace, "Searching for Privacy and Looking for Fame," Yale University, December 2007.
	Trust Online Conference, "Branding and Building Trust: Social and Ethical Issues," Santa Clara University, October 2007.
	Computer Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP), Plenary panel on "Social Networks." Washington DC, 2006. (Panelists: Lenny Foner, Sonya Hipper, Alessandro Acquisti, and Lauren Gelman. Panel organizer: Deborah Pierce.)
	Quality of Protection Workshop at the ACM Computer and Communication Security (CCS), Panel: “Is risk analysis a good system security metric?” Washington DC, October 2006. (Panelists: Virgil D. Gligor, Deb Bodeau, Alessandro Acquisti, Roy Maxion. Panel moderator: O. Sami Saydjari.)
	International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Security (ETRICS), Plenum discussion on "Security XOR Privacy." June 2006. (Panelists: Alessandro Acquisti, Andreas Pfitzmann, Peter Raab, John Riedl, Stefan Sackmann, and Sarah Spiekermann. Panel moderator: Guenter Mueller.)
	CMU Cybersecurity Summit, Panel on “Social Networking.” November 2006. (Panelists: Don McGillen, Alessandro Acquisti, Jon Callas, Peter Madsen, Marty Stansell-Gamm, and Jody Westby).

Selected Invited Conference and Workshop Talks	Network Ethics: The new Challenge in Business, ICT and Education. "Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics." Lisbon, June 2009.
Selected Invited Conference and Workshop Talks	Workshop on the Economics of Securing the Information Infrastructure, Berkeley, March 2009.
	BCLT and BTLJ Security Breach Notification Symposium. "Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?," Berkeley, CA, March 2009
	Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour (SHB)."Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics." MIT, Boston, June 2009.
	Privacy Methodologies Workshop. "Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics." London, March 2009.
	Privacy Law Scholar Conference (PLSC). "The Impact of Relative Standards on Concern about Privacy," Berkeley, June 2009.
	Information Security Best Practices: Interactive Media, Consumer Behavior, and the Law, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. “The Best of Strangers," January 2009.
	Wharton Interactive Media Initiative: Modeling Social Network Data, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks," January 2009.
	Fifth Annual Forum on Financial Information Systems and Cybersecurity: A Public Policy Perspective. "Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?," March 2008. (Presented by Sasha Romanosky.)
	ZEW Workshop on Web 2.0."Privacy, Online Social Networks, and Behavioral Economics." University of Manheim, Manheim, Germany, December 2008.
	Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour (SHB)."Privacy, Online Social Networks, and Behavioral Economics." MIT, Boston, June 2008.
	Behavioral Issues in Marketing Channels. "Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics." Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, October 2008.
	2008 Symposium on Privacy in the Age of Social Network Services."Privacy, Behavioral Economics, and Online Social Networks," Strasbourg (France), October 2008. (Hosted by the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, as part of the 30th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners.) (Plenary talk.)
	Privacy Law Scholar Conference (PLSC). "Inferring Private Data from Publicly-Available Sources," Washington DC, June 2008.
	ENISA/EEMA European eIdentity conference. "Privacy, Behavioral Economics, and Online Social Networks," Paris, June 2007.
	18th Annual Economic Crime Institute conference. "Understanding the Human Element in the Disclosure of Personal Information," McLean, VA, 2007. (Plenary talk.)
	NSF Workshop on Next-Generation Data Mining, "Inferring Private Data from Publicly-Available Sources," Baltimore, MD, 2007.
	11th Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE). "Privacy and Information Revelation in Online Social Networks: The Facebook Case." Boston, June 2007. (Plenary talk.)
	XV Tor Vergata International Conference on Banking and Finance. “The Economics of Privacy and Information Security.” December 2006. (Invited paper and invited session.)
	Contours Of Privacy Conference. "Privacy and Ambiguity." Ottawa, CA, November 2005. (Plenary talk.)
	13th CACR Information Security Workshop and 5th Annual Privacy and Security Workshop - Privacy and Security: Seeking the Middle Path. "Privacy and Rationality." Toronto, CA, October 2004. (Plenary talk.)
	7th Annual Privacy and Security Workshop & 15th CACR Information Security Workshop. “Imagined Communities: Privacy, Information Revelation, and the Facebook.” Toronto, Canada, 2006.

Selected Invited Seminars outside CMU	Princeton University, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks, " April 2009.
Selected Invited Seminars outside CMU	University of Paris-Sud, “Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics," March 2009.
	University of Freiburg, “Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics," February 2009.
	Harvard University, “Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics," February 2009.
	New York University, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks, " March 2009.
	University of Michigan, “Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics," January 2009.
	Duke University, “Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics," December 2008.
	John Hopkins University, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks, " September 2008.
	Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks, " April 2008.
	University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks," October 2007.
	University of Connecticut School of Business, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks, " October 2007.
	Indiana University CACR Talk. “Information Revelation and Privacy in Online Social Networks.” February 8, 2006.
	University di Pittsburgh, Office of Cross-Cultural and Civic Leadership (OCCCL). “Imagined Communities: Information Revelation, Privacy, and the Facebook.” October 2006. (Invited keynote.)
	Societa’ Dante Alighieri of Pittsburgh. “The Impossible Dream? The Privacy Debate in the USA and in Italy." February 2006.
	Security and Privacy in Future Business Services Workshop at the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Security (ETRICS). “Is There a Cost to Privacy Breaches? An Event Study,” Freiburg, Germany, 2006.
	Microsoft Research (MSR). "The Economics of Privacy." Seattle, WA, August 2005.
	CONSIP. "Privacy and Procurement." Rome, Italy, May 2005.
	Universita' di Tor Vergata. "The Economics of Privacy." Rome, Italy, May 2005.
	CIPLIT Symposium on Privacy and Identity: The Promise and Perils of a Technological Age. "Privacy and Rationality." Chicago, IL, October 2004.
	University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences. "Privacy, Economics, and Immediate Gratification: Theory and Data." Pittsburgh, PA, October 2004.
	PORTIA Workshop on Sensitive Financial and Medical Data. "Privacy and the Economics of Immediate Gratification." Stanford, CA, July 2004.
	Stanford University, Management Science and Engineering Seminars. "Privacy, Anonymity, and Tracking in Computer-mediated Economic Transactions.” Palo Alto, CA, February 2003.
	UC Santa Cruz , Baskin School of Engineering. "Privacy, Anonymity, and Tracking in Computer-mediated Economic Transactions.” Santa Cruz, CA, February 2003.
	University of Michigan , Ford School of Public Policy. "Privacy, Anonymity, and Tracking in Computer-mediated Economic Transactions.” Ann Arbor, MI, February 2003.
	UC Berkeley, CS Department and School of Information Management and Systems Human-Centered Computing Seminars. "Agent-based Modeling of Human-Computer Interaction and Work Practices onboard the International Space Station." Berkeley, CA, April 2002.
	UC Berkeley, CS Department Security Lunch Seminars. "Probabilistic Privacy in an Untrusted Environment." Berkeley, CA, April 2002.
	UC Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems "CalDay" invited talk. "Privacy in the Digital Age: Three Myths, One Technological Solution, and Some Economic Incentives." Berkeley , CA , April 2002.
	UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Marketing Department Seminars. "Conditioning Prices on Purchase History." Berkeley, CA, January 2002.
	Stanford GSB, Applied Microeconomics Seminars. "Conditioning Prices on Purchase History." Stanford, CA, November 2001. (Presented by Hal Varian.)
	UC Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems PhD Research Seminars. "Conditioning Prices on Purchase History." Berkeley, CA , November 2001.
	UC Berkeley, Economics Department IO Seminars. "Conditioning Prices on Purchase History." Berkeley, CA, October 2001.
	UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business IO Fest 2001. "Conditioning Prices on Purchase History." Berkeley, CA, October 2001. (Presented by Hal Varian.)
	Santa Fe Institute, 2001 Graduate Workshop on Computational Economics. "An nk landscapes approach to modeling intelligent capital." Santa Fe, NM, July 2001.
	UC Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems PhD Research Seminars. "Intelligent Capital: Computers as Nodes in the Network Economy." Berkeley, CA, March 2001.
	Xerox PARC, Information Science & Technology Lab Whistle Meetings. "Tacit collusion, Competition and Winner-take-all in E-commerce." Palo Alto, CA, August 2000.
	London School of Economics, MPhil/PhD Seminars in Research Strategies. "'Intelligent' vs. Human Capital in the Endogenous/Exogenous Growth Debate." London, UK, January 1999.
	Catholic University of Leuven , Economic Department Seminars. "Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Russian Federation." Leuven, Belgium, 1999. (Presented by Hartmut Lehmann.)
	Trinity College Dublin , Department of Economics Lunch-Time Seminars. "Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation ." Dublin, Ireland, November 1997. (Presented by Hartmut Lehmann.)
Selected Invited Seminars at CMU	Carnegie Mellon University, CyLab Seminar Series, “Of Frogs and Herds: Privacy, Information Disclosure, and Behavioral Economics," April 2009.
Selected Invited Seminars at CMU	Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz Seminar Series, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks," January 2008.
	Carnegie Mellon University, CBDR Seminar Series, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks," January 2008.
	Carnegie Mellon University, INI Seminar Series, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks," October 2007.
	Carnegie Mellon University, HCII Seminar Series, “Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks," October 2007.
	Carnegie Mellon University, CyLab Capacity Building Program (IACBP). “The Economics of Privacy." July 2006.
	Carnegie Mellon University, CyLab Japan. “The Economics of Privacy." December 2006.
	Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz School Convocation Talk. “The impossible dream? Privacy from the market to the Facebook.” April 2006.
	Carnegie Mellon University, CPIG Privacy Interest Group. “The Impossible Dream? Privacy From the Market to the Facebook." July 2006.
	Carnegie Mellon University, CyLab Seminars. “Imagined Communities: Information Revelation, Privacy, and the Facebook." August 2006.
	Carnegie Mellon University, TIP (Topics in Privacy) Seminars. "Privacy and Rationality." Pittsburgh, PA, September 2004.
	Carnegie Mellon University, Software Seminar Series (Software Industry Center, Institute for Software Research International, and Software Engineering Institute. "The Economics of Privacy." Pittsburgh, PA, February 2004.
	Carnegie Mellon University, Cylab Partners Meeting. "The Economics of Privacy." Pittsburgh, PA, March 2004.
	Carnegie Mellon University, Cylab Seminars. "Homomorphic Voting Scheme without ad-hoc Physical Assumptions." Pittsburgh, PA, January 2004.

Business Presentations	Numerous presentations to executives from: myCFO, Ariba, Invus Group, and other organizations. Numerous presentations to CyLab partners including: Bell Canada, Intel, Merril Lynch, and Royal Bank of Canada.


Teaching
2004-present	Privacy in the Digital Age MISM, Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz School (average instructor evaluation: 4.81/5.00). Terms and modules: Spring 2004, A Spring 2004, B Fall 2004, A Fall 2005, A Fall 2006, A Fall 2007, A
2004-present	Economic Analysis MISM, Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz School (average instructor evaluation: 4.61/5.00). (The material for this class has also been used for CMU-Japan classes and Distance Education classes.) Terms and modules: Spring 2004, A Spring 2004, B Fall 2004, B Fall 2004, C Spring 2005, A Fall 2005, A Fall 2005, B Fall 2005, C Fall 2006, A Fall 2006, B Fall 2006, C Fall 2007, A Fall 2007, B Fall 2007, C
2009	Lectures series on Information Privacy Department of Economics, University of Paris-Sud.
2009	Information Privacy Master in Information Technology, Freiburg University.
2006-present	Information Privacy Master in e-Procurement, University of Rome, Tor Vergata.
1997-1998	Computer Applications for Social Scientists - Power Point Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin, Faculty of Business, Economics, and Social Studies.
1998	Applied Micro-econometrics Graduate Teaching Assistant, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Economics.
1997-1998	Mathematical and Statistical Methods Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Economics.

Guest Lectures
2008	Guest Lecturer, Yale University. "Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks."
2008	Guest Lecturer, Master in Information Security, University of Rome, Tor Vergata. "The Economics of Privacy and Information Security."
2006	Guest Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University, Social and Decision Science "The Economics of Privacy," in George Loewenstein's Empirical Methods course.
2004	Guest Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science "The Economics of Privacy," in Lorrie Cranor's Privacy Policy, Law, and Technology course.
2004	Guest Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz School "Introduction to Cryptography" in Rahul Telang and Ashish Arora's Information Security Management course.
2002	Guest Lecturer, UC Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems Guest lecture, "Privacy and Economics in the Information Society," in Hal Varian's Strategic Computing and Communications Technology graduate course (joint course for MOT, MBA, EECS, and IMS programs).

Course Development	Developed "Privacy in the Digital Age" course for the Heinz School MISM program, Carnegie Mellon University.
	Developed "Information Privacy" course for the Master in e-Procurement, University of Rome, Tor Vergata.

Textbooks/Tutorials Development	Developed Tutorial for Brahms language (multi-agent simulation and modeling environment), now used by NASA and external researchers. "Brahms Tutorial," Alessandro Acquisti, William Clancey, Ron van Hoof, Mike Scott and Maarten Sierhuis Brahms TM01-0002, 167 pages, NASA Ames Research Center, 2001. Material from this tutorial was used in: "Modeling and Simulating Work Practice with the Brahms Multi-agent Environment," Alessandro Acquisti, Maarten Sierhuis, and Chin Seah, tutorial at the Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS 2005). Universal City, CA, May 2005, presented by Maarten Sierhuis and Chin Seah.


Mentoring and Advising
Post-doctoral Students	Brett Danaher (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania), 2008-2009.
	Ralph Gross (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University), 2007-2008.

Ph.D. Students	Laura Brandimarte, Ph.D. Student, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University (main advisor).
	Sasha Romanosky, Ph.D. Student, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University (committee member).
	Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Ph.D. Student, COS Program, Carnegie Mellon University (committee member).
	Steve Shang, Ph.D. Student, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (committee member).
	Janice Tsai, Ph.D. Student, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (committee member).
	Danny Fernandez, Ph.D. Student, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University (committee member).

Supervised Master Theses	“Personal information revelation in online social networks: Cross-cultural effects in US-based Networks," Ioanis A. Biternas, MSIT Thesis, 2008.
	“Do Consumers Exercise Control Over Personal Information? The Effect Transparent Communication of Privacy Information has on Consumer Buying Habits,” Julia Gideon, MSISPM Thesis (co-advisor: Lorrie Cranor), 2006.
	“The Personal Information Market,” Eric Chang, MSISPM Thesis, 2006.
	“Risks of Identity Theft Associated with the Revelation of Personal Information in Online Social Networks,” Jimin Lee, MSISPM Thesis, 2006.
	“Life on the Marauder’s Map: Privacy Implications in Moving Toward a Global Internet of Things,” Shaun Byrnes, MSISPM Thesis, 2006.
	"Simple data collection protocol: a privacy-preserving approach to distributed internet surveillance." Samuel Edoho-Eket, Master Thesis, TR 2004-15, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004 (Reader).

Supervised Master Projects	"Government as a Market Maker," Basil Al-Essa, Robert Kaminski, Deepak Sharma, Arunkumaran Varadharajan, Seth Watson, Marc Wautier. Systems Synthesis Project for Deloitte, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University, 2008.
	"Identity Verification on the Net: A Vulnerability Assessment," Yatish Mamniya, Mrinal Manohar, Bradley Becker, Napat Boonsaeng, Candice Jang, Edwin Kairu. MSISPM Project for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007.
	"Web 2.0 and Social Networking: Corporate Aspects and Opportunities," Kumaraswamy Mydala Srikantappa, Malarvizhi N. Velappan, Nomita Rajan, Raymundo Segovia, and Saurav Sharma. Systems Synthesis Project for GlaxoSmith Klein, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007.
	“Ensuring Privacy Protection Within the US Department of Labor - A Practical Risk Based Approach,”Jeremy J. Hyland, Michael Ee, Sheldon A. Durrant, Ming Peng (Clement) Chen, Jin Seok Park, and Leticia V. Nisbett. MSISPM Project for the Department of Labor, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006.
	"Drivers for Vulnerability Assessment." Don Ojoko-Adams, Rebecca DerGarabedian, Shaun Gilmore, John Reaghart, MSISPM Project, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004.

Supervised Independent Projects	"Privacy and Poverty," Eric Morris, 2009.
Supervised Independent Projects	"NebuAd Behavioral Advertising," Shankar Narayanan Viswanathan and Aditya Amonkar, 2009.
	"The Impact of Online Social Networks on Hiring," Sajit Kunnumkal, 2008.
	"Information Revelation in Online Social Networks," Dhruv Mohindra, 2007.
	"Darknets and Trusted Computing," Alok Yardi, 2005.
	"The Impact of Privacy Violations on Privacy Attitudes," Pam Karla, 2005.
	"The Costs of Privacy," Mustafa Khan, 2005.
	"Privacy Surveys," Pryia Kothari, 2004.
	"Negotiation and P3P," Aaron Rankin, 2004.

Informal or Occasional Academic Advising	Danny Fernandez, Ph.D. Student, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University.
Informal or Occasional Academic Advising	Xue Bay, Ph.D. student, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University.
	Il-Chul Moon, Ph.D. student, CASOS, Carnegie Mellon University
	Ihnaee Choi, Master student, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University.
	Anand Nandkumar, Ph.D. Student, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University.
	Anuj Kumar, Ph.D. Student, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University.
	Bin Zhang, Ph.D. Student, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University


Service
Chair	Co-Chair and Co-Organizer, Second Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour (SHB), with Bruce Schneier and Ross Anderson, MIT, Boston, 2009.
	Co-Chair and Co-Organizer, First Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour (SHB), with Bruce Schneier, Ross Anderson, and George Loewenstein, MIT, Boston, 2008.
	Co-Chair and Co-Organizer, Sixth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, with Rahul Telang, 2007.
	Co-Chair and Co-Organizer, DIMACS Workshop on Information Security Economics, 2007.
	Chair and Organizer, Session on the "Economics of Information Security and Privacy" at the XV Tor Vergata International Conference on Banking and Finance, with Jean Camp, 2006.
	Chair, PET Award Committee, 2006.

Organizer	Co-organizer, UBICOMP Privacy Workshop, with Jason Hong, Jens Grossklags, and John Canny, 2004, 2005.

Member of Program Committee	Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET), 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.
Member of Program Committee	PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies Committee, 2007, 2008.
	Associated Editor for the Economics of IS track, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2008.
	APWG eCrime Researchers Summit (eCrime), 2007.
	ACM Electronic Commerce Conference (ACM EC), 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.
	TrustBus 2006, 2007, 2009.
	Financial Cryptography Conference (FC), 2007, 2009.
	International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), 2007, 2008.
	International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Security (ETRICS), 2006.
	Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.
	Workshop on the Economics of Securing the Information Infrastructure (WESII), 2006.
	Workshop on Privacy-Enhanced Personalization at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference (CHI), 2006.
	International Symposium of Information Systems (ISIS), 2006.
	Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN), 2006.
	Information Security Conference (ISC), 2006.
	Workshop on Quality of protection (QoP), 2005 (at ESORICS/METRICS 2005), 2006, 2007, 2008.
	Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA) at the International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive) 2006, 2007.
	IASTED International Conference on Web Technologies, Applications, and Services, 2005.
	Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES) at the ACM Computer and Communication Security Conference (CCS), 2005, 2008.

CMU Service	ISM Committee, 2008-present
	Heinz College Transition Committee (Information School), 2008

Other Professional Activities
Refereeing and Reviewing
2002-present	Referee for: American Economic Review, Management Science, Marketing Science, Information Systems Research, Applied Economics, European Conference on Information Systems, IEEE Security and Privacy, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Surveys, Communications of the ACM, Applied Economics, IEEE Computer, Information Systems Frontiers, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Computer- Mediated Communication, CHI, Journal of Economics Management and Strategy, 37th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), International Conference on Information Systems, IPSI, MIS Quarterly, Cognitive Science, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Economics of Transition, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Electronic Commerce Research Journal, International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Information Systems Research, International Conference on Information Systems, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, The Handbook of Information Security, as well as NASA SBIR Program, National Science Foundation IIS Program, TOKEN (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research).
2004	American Economic Association Annual Meeting. Discussant in the Sessions: "Economics of Open Source" and "Economics of Privacy." San Diego, CA, January 2004.
2003	American Economic Association Annual Meeting. Discussant in the Sessions: "Markets for Information" and "Firm Behavior in the Internet Economy." Washington, DC, January 2003.

Editorial Boards
2008-present	Member of the Advisory Board, SSRN LSN Information Privacy Law Abstracting eJournal.
2006-present	Member of the International Editorial Review Board (IERB), International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP).
2004-present	Member of Editorial Board, I/S Journal.

Affiliations
2008-present	Fellow, Ponemon Institute.
2006-present	Charter Contributor to the Privacy Network at the Centre for Innovation, Law and Policy at the University of Toronto.
2005-present	Member, Cylab Privacy Interest Group.
2004-present	Member, CMU Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory.
2004-present	Member, CMU Information Networking Institute.
2003-present	Member, Carnegie Mellon Cylab.
2003-present	Member, CMU Privacy Technology Center.
2004-2007	Research Fellow, IZA, Berlin, Germany. (Research Affiliate, 2001-2003.)
1997-1998	Member, European Economic Association.

Additional Service	Maintains the online resource page on the economics of privacy at http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/economics-privacy.htm.
	Expert consultant and expert witness on economic aspects of privacy issues and personal information valuation.
	Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz School Alumni Reunion. Moderator, Panel: "What does the government have a right to know about you? Technological Efficiency versus Privacy and Civil Liberties." Pittsburgh, PA, October 2004.
	Digizen Advisory Board member, 2007-present.
	Civic Science Advisory Board member, 2008-present.
	Invited to collaborate to a BlueSky proposal for the National Aeronautics & Space Administration on Composing the Right Mix of Humans & Technology for Lunar Surface Exploration, 2007-2008.
	Invited to participate as reviewer in the NSF Human-Centered Computing panel, 2008.
	Invited participant in the NSF IIS-GENI Workshop, July 2008, Boston.
	Invited to collaborate in a project for the Ontario Ministry of Health by the Privacy Centre of Excellence, Bell Enterprise Group, Bell Canada, 2008.
	Invited to participate in the ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) special group on social networks and collaborate in the ENISA White Paper on "Security Issues and Recommendations for Online Social Networks," 2007.

Selected Media Mentions (incomplete and not updated)
	MSNBC.com, "Why give up privacy? Because everyone else is!", May 2009.
	Wall Street Journal, "New Data Privacy Laws Set For Firms," October 16, 2008.
	NBC News, "Study: Loyalty cards allow corporations to track buyers," May 23 2008 (TV interview).
	NPR Fresh Air, Science Friday, "Getting booked by Facebook," March 2008 (live radio interview).
	BusinessWeek, ``True Confessions," July 28, 2008.
	MSNBC.com, "How Magic Might Finally Fix Your Computer", July 7 2008.
	Washington Post, "A Flashy Facebook Page, at a Cost to Privacy," June 12, 2008 (front page).
	Slashdot, "ID Theft In US Continues Apace Despite Data Breach Laws," June 8, 2008.
	The Register (UK), "Breach disclosure laws have 'no effect' on identity theft," June 5 2008.
	Security Focus, "Breach-notification laws not working?," June 25, 2008.
	New York Times (online version), Bits, "Our Paradoxical Attitudes Toward Privacy," July 2, 2008.
	Computer World, "Researchers say notification laws not lowering ID theft," June 2008.
	BBC News, "Good privacy pays for web stores," June 2007.
	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Online shoppers will pay for security," June 8, 2007.
	MSNBC.com, "Price of privacy depends on how you look at it," June 3, 2007.
	Wired.com, "Private Facebook Pages Are Not So Private," June 28, 2007.
	Wired.com, "The Privacy Market Has Many Sellers, but Few Buyers," September 3, 2007.
	Tribune Review, "Online revelations," December 28, 2007.
	Network World, "Carnegie Mellon University research suggests users ignore antiphishing material," November 8, 2007.
	Boston Globe, "The advantages of amnesia," September 23, 2007.
	The New Scientist (UK), “Living online: The end of privacy?,” by Alison George, September 18, 2006.
	MSNBC.com, “Privacy under attack, but does anybody care?,” by Bob Sullivan, October 17, 2006.
	Money 101 on KNX 1070 radio (Southern California). Interview with Bob McCormick, November 16, 2006.
	The Chronicles of Higher Education, “Facebook’s Creator Admits That New Features Flopped, but College Officials Sense a Teachable Moment,” by Samantha Henig, September 11, 2006.
	SZ Wissen (science magazine of the leading German daily newspaper Sddeutsche Zeitung), “Der Verlust der Privatsphre Und ewig lockt das Web,” by Alexander Stirn, December 14, 2006.
	Weekenddavisen (Danish newspaper), “Offentlige hemmeligheder,” by Johanne Mygind, November 9, 2006.
	Post-Gazette, “Bits & Bytes: Wizzard Software scoops up Blast Podcast, Switchpod.com,” by Corilyn Shropshire, September 30, 2006.
	PricewaterHouseCoopers' View, “People value privacy - or do they?,” February 2007.
	Baylor Business Review, “CRM & Privacy: How much do companies need to know about their customers?,” by Paul Greenberg, September 13, 2006.
	ZDNET and ZDNET Asia, “Should companies care about privacy breaches?,” by Tom Espiner, June 30, 2006.
	IT News, “Study finds security breaches affect on shares,” by James Murray, July 5, 2006.
	The Tartan, “Facebook filled with interest and ignorance,” by Andrew Peters, April 03, 2006.
	The Tartan, “CMU researches Facebook privacy as site goes global,” by Alexander Dileonardo and Rachita Chandra, September 18, 2006.
	CMU Piper, “Does What Happens on Facebook Stay on Facebook?,” by Byron Spice, October 6, 2006.
	ISACA Roma Newsletter (in Italian and English), “Privacy in the Digital Age.” Interview with Agatino Grillo, December 1, 2006.
	Microsoft EMEA Press Center Microsoft, “Privacy Research: New Advances, New Perspectives,” Pet award Microsoft interview, June 28 2006.
	CERT Podcast, “Privacy: The Slow Tipping Point.” Interview with Stephanie Losi.
	Bob Sullivan, "They know what we are listening to," MSNBC.com, March 4, 2005.
	Bob Sullivan, "Researchware watches where you click," MSNBC.com, April 20, 2005.
	Communications of the ACM, "NewsTrack," July 2005, 48(7).
	AScribe Newswire, "Carnegie Mellon University: Voting for Reliability," August 23, 2004. (Press release.)
	David Pescovitz, "Reading between the links," UC Berkeley CITRIS - Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, 2002.


Professional Experience
2003-present	Assistant Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University John H. Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management.
2001-2003	Visiting Student, NASA Ames Research Center, Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science Worked with Dr. Maarten Sierhuis and Dr. William Clancey as researcher and "Brahms" modeler (multi-agent simulation environment for Modeling, planning and simulating teamwork and work practices). Wrote language Tutorial now used by NASA and external researchers. Worked on models of the International Space Station (ISS) and the collaboration between the ISS crew and robotic assistants such as the PSA (Personal Satellite Assistant) and the Robonaut. Beta tested new components of the "Brahms" development suite and contributed to new language definitions and components. Reviewed external proposals seeking NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program funding.
2000-2003	Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems Research assistant for Prof. Hal Varian, Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems. Worked on taxation of Internet commerce and Internet privacy.
2000	Intern, Xerox PARC, Information Science and Technology Lab Worked with the Internet Ecologies team and researched e-commerce competitive dynamics using computational methods and simulations. Supervisors: Prof. Bernardo Huberman and Dr. Tad Hogg.
2000-2003	CEO and Cofounder, PGuardian Technologies, Inc. (2000-2001); Chief Architect (2002-2003) Architect of core technology and business model for PGuardian Technologies, Inc., an electronic payment services provider offering privacy enhancing solutions. Designed protocols, patent applications, and developed alpha product. Supervised implementation and coordinated technology and business strategies.
1998	Research Assistant, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Economics Researched India exports to EU. Worked on macro policy aspects; prepared, administrated, and analyzed large trade dataset. Principal Investigator: Prof. Dermot McAleese.
1998-1999	Director of E-commerce and UK Sales & Marketing, PPMusic.com Managed e-commerce strategy and website development. Managed UK sales and marketing strategy and placed company's products with main music UK retailers (Borders UK and Tower Records). Board member, 1998-present.
1998	Summer Associate, Market Analyst, J.P. Morgan Worked with Emerging Markets Research (London). Developed applications and produced research on Russian external debt/ banking system for trading floor. Supervisors: Mr. Ed Bartholomew and Dr. Arnab Das.
1997-1998	Research Assistant, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Economics Researched Russian labor dynamics. Member of TACIS/ACE funded project; traveled to Russia for data gathering; completed statistical and econometric analysis of large firm-level datasets. Principal Investigator: Prof. Hartmut Lehmann.
1993-1995	Production Assistant, CPA Edizioni Musicali Responsible for the production of classical CDs for CPA Edizioni Musicali (then PPMusic .com). Assisted in recording, mastering, production and distribution.


Additional Education
2001	Santa Fe Institute Graduate Workshop on Computational Economics Participant.
1997	Trinity College Dublin, School of Mathematics Coursework in the M.Sc. in High Power Computing as a part of the Trinity College Foundation HPC Fellowship.
1995-1996	Trinity College Dublin, Business Economics and Social Studies European Union "Erasmus" exchange Program.
1987-1991	Liceo Classico Tito Lucrezio Caro, Rome Maturita' classica 60/60 (Classical studies): Latin, Greek, and Philosophy.


Additional Scholarships
2002	UC Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems, Dean's Mellon Fellowship for Information Economics (through Dean Hal Varian).
1999	UC Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems, Dean's Mellon Scholarship for Information Economics (through Dean Hal Varian).
1998	Trinity College Foundation HPC Fellowship (through Dr. Patrick Waldron).
1997-1998	TACIS-ACE Scholarship (through Prof. Hartmut Lehmann).


Misc
Music	SIAE Music and Lyrics Writer certifications.
	Expertise in MIDI systems and KORG X series, Roland JV series.
	Soundtrack and lyrics composer for theater, cinema, and television productions (BMG Ariola, RAI National Television).
Non Academic Books	"La Compagnia Poligonale," Collana I Piombi. Edizioni del Leone: Venice, IT, 1995.
Languages	Fluent in Italian and English. Some French, Latin, and classic Greek.


References
Prof. Mario Baldassarri University of Rome. Former Italian Deputy Minister for Economics and Finance.
Prof. Hartmut Lehmann Heriot Watt University, School of Management and Languages, Department of Economics.
Prof. Doug Tygar UC Berkeley, Computer Science Department and School of Information Management and Systems.
Dean Hal R. Varian UC Berkeley , School of Information Management and Systems and Department of Economics.