Ben Adida is Research Faculty at Harvard Medical School / Children's Hospital Boston, a research fellow with the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard, and an affiliate with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He is a technical advisor to Creative Commons and, in that capacity, chairs a W3C task force on bridging the semantic and clickable webs. His research focuses on autonomy, or how to empower individuals on the Internet with secure, private, irrevocable, and efficient access to their data. Specifically, Dr. Adida studies security and privacy of personal health records, the security of web applications, interoperable web-based structured data, and the design of secure voting systems. He has developed extensive free software for more than 10 years.
Dr. Adida received his PhD at MIT in the Cryptography and Information Security group. Previously, he co-founded two software startups that developed database-backed web application platforms based on free/open-source software.
Last Updated - 25 August 2009