alex berke

I'm currently a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab, City Science group.

My PhD thesis is about transforming digital traces collected from us by companies - purchases, locations via mobile devices, web browsing data - into public goods, along with the privacy implications of our commercial surveillance economies and potential mitigations.

Beyond my dissertation, my work is interdisciplinary and has spanned across econometrics, cryptography, sustainability and transportation. I'm an engineer and I build the tools I use to do my research.