Alessandro Acquisti

Alessandro Acquisti is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Public Policy at the Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, and the co-director of the CMU Center for Behavioral Decision Research (CBDR). Alessandro has been the recipient of many awards, and his research on privacy has been published in leading journals across multiple disciplines and featured in media outlets such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, CNN, and NPR. His 2009 study on the predictability of Social Security numbers contributed to the change in the assignment scheme of SSNs that was announced in 2011 by the US Social Security Administration.