I am an Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial College London where I head the Computational Privacy Group. Our research focuses on the development of automated methods to red team AI systems and privacy-preserving mechanisms.

We are looking for motivated PhD students to join our group at Imperial College. All qualified candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

I obtained my PhD from MIT under the supervision of Alex "Sandy" Pentland in 2015 and have been a a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard working with Latanya Sweeney and Gary King before joining Imperial. I have previously served as a Special Adviser on AI and Data Protection to EC Justice Commissioner Reynders, as a Parliament-appointed Commissioner for the Belgian Data Protection Agency and as a Special Adviser to EC Commissioner Vestager for who I co-authored the Competition policy for the digital era report. At Imperial, I hold a joint affiliation between the Department of Computing and the Data Science Institute.

A 250 words bio is available here, my resume is available as a pdf or on LinkedIn, and my full publication list on Google Scholar.