Dipayan Ghosh

Dipayan Ghosh is an American privacy and cybersecurity expert. He served as a technology policy advisor in the White House during the Obama Administration where he supported policy development and coordination on issues related to data privacy and civil rights.
Background
Dipayan Ghosh was raised in Storrs, Connecticut and attended the University of Connecticut, where he studied electrical and computer engineering. He later earned a doctorate in the same field from Cornell University and was a post-doctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. His doctoral thesis explores the design of privacy in cyber-physical systems. He also examined how organizations can be encouraged to voluntarily adopt privacy-enhancing options. Ghosh serves as an academic fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University.
Career
After completing his doctorate, Ghosh began a career in government. During the Obama Administration, he served as a technology policy advisor at the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Economic Council, where he focused on issues including consumer privacy and civil liberties in the digital space.
At the White House, Ghosh supported the administration’s work on data privacy and public policy. In particular, he helped coordinate its advancement of a voluntary code of conduct for electric utility companies and energy technology firms. This code became a set of best practices that now exists as the DataGuard program, open to firms invested in smart grid technologies.
Ghosh worked on White House initiatives addressing big data’s impact on individual privacy and algorithmic discrimination. He also helped advance the administration’s work in educational technology, including its draft legislative proposal on student privacy in K-12 education. Other policy areas Ghosh supported include 5G wireless innovation, spectrum policy, and open innovation.
In 2015, Ghosh joined Facebook, where he supported the company’s work on issues related to privacy and cyber policy. In this capacity, he has also helped address issues at the intersection of justice and technology. In 2017, Ghosh became a fellow at the New America Foundation focusing on privacy and security policy.

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