Anupam Datta

Anupam Datta is Co-Founder, President, and Chief Scientist of Truera. He is also Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on enabling real-world complex systems to be accountable for their behavior, especially as they pertain to privacy, fairness, and security. His work has helped create foundations and tools for accountable data-driven systems. Specific results include an accountability tool chain for privacy compliance deployed in industry, automated discovery of gender bias in the targeting of job-related online ads, principled tools for explaining decisions of artificial intelligence systems, and monitoring audit logs to ensure privacy compliance. Datta has also made significant contributions to rigorously accounting for security of cryptographic protocols. Specifically, his work led to new principles for securely composing cryptographic protocols and their application to several protocol standards, most notably to the IEEE 802.11i standard for wireless authentication and to attestation protocols for trusted computing. Datta serves as lead PI of a large NSF project on Accountable Decision Systems, on the Steering Committees of the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in socio-technical systems and the IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, and as an Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Privacy and Security. He obtained Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University and a B.Tech. from IIT Kharagpur, all in Computer Science.

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