MIT Leadership
Daniel Weitzner
Co-Director
Daniel Weitzner’s research pioneered the design of accountable systems as a new approach to privacy and investigates interaction between cryptographic technology and surveillance law. Weitzner was United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Internet Policy in the White House where he led initiatives on privacy, cybersecurity, copyright, and digital trade policies, and was responsible for the Obama Administration’s Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights and the OECD Internet Policymaking Principles.
Srini Devadas
Co-Director
Prof. Devadas’ current research areas are computer architecture, computer security, and applied cryptography. Together they bring deep technological and policy understanding
Advisory Committee
- Daniel Weitzner (MIT) (co-chair)
- Srini Devadas (MIT) (co-chair)
- Taylor Reynolds (MIT)
- Lori Glover (MIT)
- Bayan Bruss (CapitalOne)
- Mona Vernon (Fidelity Investments)
- Sears Merritt (MassMutual)
- Robert Hedges (Visa)
The MIT Future of Data initiative is guided by input from the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee is comprised of one member from each of the participating organizations, the faculty and research directors, and the executive directors from both CSAIL and IPRI.
Students
- Jiannan Cao
- Leo de Castro
- Suhki Gulati
- Simon Langowski
- Jason Li
- Geoffrey Litt
- Eric Pence
- Joshua Maxwell Pollock
- Robert Redmond
- Sacha Servan-Schreiber
- Erica Radler
- Nathan W Weckwerth
- Brian S Xia
- Xinjing Zhou
- Kevin Liao
