Biography

Alfred Rossi is a computer scientist working in mathematical privacy and data protection. His work includes privacy-preserving query processing and methods for quantifying re-identification risk, and he is a named inventor on six issued US patents in this area. Recent work includes formal models of the legal definitions of anonymisation and pseudonymisation, as well as systems for computer-assisted data protection assessments such as Parajudica.

His writing on privacy and data protection has appeared in Privacy & Data Protection, the CPDP book series, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of EU Law. He has participated in the PETs Expert Forum of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office and contributed to consultations by the European Data Protection Board and Germany’s BfDI.

Dr. Rossi has a background in mathematics, an MS in Physics, and completed a PhD in theoretical computer science in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University, where he served as a Senior Lecturer from 2018 to 2025. He currently works at Immuta in the Research Engineering group, where he is a Distinguished Scientist and Engineer.