Scholar
Kobbi Nissim
Google Scholar ID: U-RE8IgAAAAJ
Dept. of Computer Science (Georgetown)
Citations & Impact
Citations
17,647
H-index
44
i10-index
75
Publications
20
Co-authors
102
list available
Contact
No contact links provided.
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Introduced the concept of differential privacy and has been involved in several projects funded by the US Census Bureau and NSF, such as Data co-ops, Towards an End-to-End Approach to Formal Privacy for Sample Surveys, Co-design of law and computer science for privacy in sociotechnical software systems, etc. Also served on the program committee or organized several conferences including TCC, FORC, CSCML, ICALP, etc.
Research Experience
- Prior to joining Georgetown, worked at the Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University; visited the Center for Research in Computation and Society (CRCS) at Harvard University from 2012 to 2017.
Education
- Studied at the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Prof. Moni Naor.
Background
- Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University and an Affiliate Professor at Georgetown Law. Research interests include privacy in computation, cryptography, machine learning, game theory, complexity theory, algorithmics, statistics, databases, and more recently privacy law and policy. Particularly interested in intersection points between privacy and various disciplines within and outside computer science.
Miscellany
- Supervised multiple PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and long-term visitors. Taught courses like Mathematical methods in computer science, Adaptive data analysis, Introduction to cryptography, Data privacy, etc.
