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Nitin Kohli

Staff Scientist

Nitin Kohli is a Staff Scientist at the UC Berkeley Center for Effective Global Action and Principal Investigator of the Data Privacy Lab, researching topics that span privacy, fairness, and manipulability of statistical and algorithmic mechanisms. Nitin utilizes techniques from applied mathematics — such as game theory and mechanism design, cryptography, statistics, and the theory of computation — to not only construct statistical and algorithmic mechanisms with provable guarantees over the outcomes of their use, but to also show the inherent limitations present in certain technologies that are deployed in particular context. As part of this research agenda, Nitin has novel privacy-enhancing technologies for humanitarian, anti-poverty, and financial inclusion initiatives. Nitin holds a PhD from UC Berkeley’s School of Information, and was awarded the International iSchools Best Doctoral Dissertation Award for his research on differential privacy.

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