Kobbi Nissim (קובי נסים) is a computer scientist at Georgetown University, where he is the McDevitt Chair of Computer Science.[3] His areas of research include cryptography and data privacy. He is known for the introduction of differential privacy.
Nissim's awards include:
IACR fellow, 2024, for "fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of data privacy, and for service to the cryptographic community".
The 2013 ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award[4] (joint with Irit Dinur).
The 2017 Gödel Prize[5] and 2016 Theory of Cryptography Test of Time Award[6] (both joint with Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, and Adam D. Smith) for the paper that introduced differential privacy.
The 2018 Theory of Cryptography Test of Time Award[6] (joint with Dan Boneh and Eu-Jin Goh).
The 2019 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (joint work with Aaron Bembenek, Alexandra Wood, Mark Bun, Marco Gaboardi, Urs Gasser, David R. O’Brien, Thomas Steinke, and Salil Vadhan).
The 2021 Paris Kanellakis Award for "fundamental contributions to the development of differential privacy."
^"PET Award".
^"TCC Test of Time Award".
^ ab"Georgetown University Computer Science Faculty". Retrieved April 17, 2019.
^"ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award". Retrieved 15 April 2019.
^Chita, Efi. "2017 Gödel Prize". Eatcs.org. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
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the 2017 Gödel Prize were awarded to Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, KobbiNissim and Adam D. Smith for their seminal paper that introduced differential...
collection of all responses (such as the definition in Raef Bassily, KobbiNissim, Uri Stemmer and Abhradeep Guha Thakurta's 2017 paper ). Algorithms guaranteeing...
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of the ACM, 4(2):84–88, February 1981. Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, KobbiNissim, Adam Smith. Calibrating Noise to Sensitivity in Private Data Analysis...
Machine Learning, 2015. Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan, Homin K. Lee, KobbiNissim, Sofya Raskhodnikova, Adam Smith. What Can We Learn Privately? Proceedings...
Appendix A in Dwork and Roth for proof). Dwork, Cynthia; McSherry, Frank; Nissim, Kobbi; Smith, Adam (2006). "Calibrating Noise to Sensitivity in Private Data...
Information and System Security. Vol. 9. pp. 461–486. Ran Canetti; Tal Malkin; KobbiNissim (1999). "Efficient communication-storage tradeoffs for multicast encryption"...
practice." 2021 Avrim Blum, Irit Dinur, Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, KobbiNissim, and Adam D. Smith For "fundamental contributions to the development...