Kobbi Nissim

Kobbi Nissim is McDevitt Chair Professor in Computer Science at Georgetown University, with affiliate appointments at Georgetown Law. His research establishes rigorous frameworks for privacy in computation, intersecting cryptography, machine learning, and law.

Research Focus: Differential privacy foundations; data co-op architectures; legal-technical co-design for privacy; formal privacy models for statistical agencies. Leads NSF/Census-funded projects on privacy-preserving data sharing.

Awards: Gödel Prize (2017); ACM Kanellakis Award (2021); IACR Fellow (2024); multiple Test-of-Time awards for differential privacy breakthroughs.

Education: PhD from Weizmann Institute under Moni Naor. Previously held positions at Ben-Gurion University and Harvard CRCS.

Advising: Mentored 15+ PhD students/postdocs. Current advisees work on privacy-legal interfaces and adaptive data analysis.