Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, AI Thought Leader, Imperial College London

Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye is an Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial College London where he leads the Computational Privacy Group. He is affiliated with the Data Science Institute and Department of Computing. Previously, Yves-Alexandre was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard, and he received his PhD from MIT.

His research aims at understanding how the unicity of human behavior impacts the privacy of individuals in large-scale metadata datasets. Yves-Alexandre’s work has been covered in The New York Times, BBC News, CNN, Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review, among others, and has been featured in reports from the World Economic Forum, United Nations, OECD, FTC and the European Commission, as well as in his talks at TEDxLLN and TEDxULg. He has worked for the Boston Consulting Group and acted as an expert for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Nations.