Kobbi Nissim is a renowned computer scientist with a strong academic and industry background. He completed his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University and pursued M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science. He has worked as a Senior Researcher and Post-Doctoral Fellow at Microsoft, and as a Visiting Scholar at various institutions, including Boston University and Harvard University. He has also worked as an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Currently, Nissim is a Professor at Georgetown University where he focuses on advancing computer security by identifying problems related to information collection, sharing, and processing. He specializes in private data analysis, differential privacy, and secure computation. His interests also span cryptography, machine learning, game theory, complexity, algorithms, statistics, and databases. Nissim's research aims to establish solid practices and technological solutions in the intersection of security and privacy, and his work has promising implications for both private and public sectors.