Arvind Narayanan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University and the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy. He co-authored a textbook on fairness and machine learning and is currently co-authoring a book on AI snake oil. He led the Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. His work was among the first to show how machine learning reflects cultural stereotypes, and his doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification. Narayanan is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), twice a recipient of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award, and thrice a recipient of the Privacy Papers for Policy Makers Award.

Narayanan was the Knight First Amendment Institute’s 2022-2023 visiting senior research scientist. He carried out a research project on algorithmic amplification on social media and hosted a major conference on the topic in Spring 2023.