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Biographical Data
Alessandro Acquisti is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology
and Public Policy at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy
and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, and a member of Carnegie
Mellon Cylab. His work investigates the economic and social impact
of IT, and in particular the interaction and interconnection of
human and artificial agents in highly networked information economies.
His current research focuses primarily on the economics of privacy
and information security, but also on the economics of computers
and AI, agents economics, computational economics, ecommerce, cryptography,
anonymity, and electronic voting. His research in these areas has
been disseminated through journals (including Marketing Science,
IEEE Security & Privacy, and Rivista di Politica Economica); edited
books ("Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies, and Practices.''
Auerbach, 2007); book chapters; and leading international conferences.
Prior to joining CMU Faculty, Alessandro Acquisti researched at
the Xerox PARC labs in Palo Alto, CA, with Bernardo Huberman and
the Internet Ecologies Group (as intern), and for two years at RIACS,
NASA Ames Research Center, in Mountain View, CA, with Maarten Sierhuis
and Bill Clancey (as visiting student). At RIACS, he worked on agent-based
simulations of human-robot interaction onboard the International
Space Station. In 2000 he co-founded PGuardian Technologies, Inc.,
a provider of Internet security and privacy services, for which
he designed two currently pending patents. Alessandro has received
national and international awards, including the 2005 PET Award
for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies and the
2005 IBM Best Academic Privacy Faculty Award. He is and has been
member of the program committees of various international conferences
and workshops, including ACM EC, PET, WEIS, ETRICS, WPES, LOCA,
QoP, and the Ubicomp Privacy Workshop at Ubicomp. In 2007 he chaired
the DIMACS Workshop on Information Security Economics and the WEIS
Workshop on the Economics of Information Security. In the past,
he has been a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of
Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. Alessandro Acquisti has lived and
studied in Rome (Laurea, Economics, University of Rome), Dublin
(M.Litt., Economics, Trinity College), London (M.Sc., Econometrics
and Mathematical Economics, LSE), and in the San Francisco bay area,
where he worked with John Chuang, Doug Tygar, and Hal Varian and
received a Master and a Ph.D. in Information Management and Systems
from the University of California at Berkeley.
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