Arvind Narayanan is a professor of computer science at Princeton and the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy. He co-authored a textbook on fairness and machine learning. In 2024, he co-authored (with Sayash Kapoor) a book on AI snake oil (Princeton University Press. 

He led the Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. His work was among the first to show how machine learning reflects cultural stereotypes, and his doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification. Narayanan is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), twice a recipient of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award, and thrice a recipient of the Privacy Papers for Policy Makers Award.

Arvind and Sayash provide critical commentary on AI in AI Snake Oil newsletter, for which we were recognized on the TIME 100 AI list. It is read by over 30,000 researchers, policy makers, journalists, and AI enthusiasts.