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Welcome to Simson Garfinkel's personal web site.

Simson L. Garfinkel works in the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He is also a part-time faculty member at George Washington University in Washington DC, a guest researcher at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and an affiliate of Georgetown University. He serves on the Association for Computing Machinery's U.S. Technology and Policy Committee, and on the ACM's Ethics and Plagiarism Committee. His current research interests include privacy in data science ethics, cybersecurity, privacy, usability, digital forensics, personal information management, counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism. (Read full bio.)

Information about Marian Garfinkel's Memorial Service, August 29, 2021

News

Differential Privacy Resources

Recent tutorials and presentations

Note: talks with the same name may (and frequently do) have different slides

See also my Presentations Archive and my AWS Tutorial.

Recent publications


Current projects

Software and systems
  • bulk_extractor 2.0
  • tcpflow 2.0
Academic Research
  • Article about security research and AI
  • New approach to provenance: the Data Vintaging System (new wine in old bottles?)
  • New Data Science Ethics assignment
  • Article on https://digitalcorpora.org/ for a forensics journal.
  • Article about the new bulk_extractor and why it's so much better.
In Submission
  • __Law and Policy for the Quantum Age__, Hoofnagle & Garfinkel, (Cambridge University Press, 2021)


You may also be interested in my Future Projects

Completed projects


Resources For Students

Where to find Simson Garfinkel online