Aloni Cohen
Co-Principal Investigator
Aloni Cohen is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University and the Boston University School of Law. He’ll be joining the University of Chicago as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science as part of UChicago’s new Data Science Initiative, starting January 2022.
Aloni’s work explores the interplay between theoretical cryptography, privacy, law, and policy, and aims to understand and resolve the tensions between the theory of cryptography and the privacy and surveillance law that governs its eventual real-world context. Current topics of interest include differential privacy, Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Fifth Amendment, encryption, multiparty computation, and the Census.
Aloni earned his PhD in the Cryptography and Information Security group at MIT, advised by Shafi Goldwasser. He has been an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, a Fellow at Facebook and at the Aspen Tech Policy Hub, and recipient of the NSF Graduate Student Research Fellowship.