About the IAPP

Kobbi Nissim is a professor of computer science at Georgetown University and a senior research fellow at Harvard's Center for Research in Computation and Society. Nissim’s work focuses on the mathematical formulation and understanding of privacy. He received the Alberto O. Mendelson Test of Time award in 2013 for his work from 2003 initiating the formal treatment of privacy in computation, and the IACR TCC Test of Time award in 2016 for his work from 2006 introducing differential privacy. Nissim’s work presented some of the basic constructions supporting differential privacy, and studied differential privacy in various contexts, including statistics, computational learning, mechanism design, and social networks. Since 2011, he has been a senior researcher at the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project, Harvard University, developing privacy-preserving tools for the sharing of social-science data. Other contributions of Nissim include the BGN homomorphic encryption scheme, and the research of private approximations.