Simson Garfinkel

Washington D.C. Metro Area United States

Chief, Center for Disclosure Avoidance Research at U.S. Census Bureau

My primary research involves privacy issues and big data, and in particular the development of practical approaches for releasing large, useful data sets while protecting personal privacy. In addition to my full-time job, I also will be teaching Digital Forensics at George Mason University and Big Data Analytics at Georgetown University. I was previously a Computer Scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and before that a tenured professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. I am the author or co-author of roughly 50 peer-reviewed academic research papers and 14 books on computing, including Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century, and Practical...