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Dr Luc Rocher
Fellow, Junior Research Fellow
Departmental Research Lecturer
Oxford Internet Institute
Dr Luc Rocher is a lecturer at the Oxford Internet Institute, working at the interface of computer and social sciences. Prior to joining Oxford in 2021, they were a researcher at Imperial College London and MIT Media Lab, and studied at ENS de Lyon and UCLouvain.
Dr Rocher is working to improve how we research, access, and use sensitive human data. To address privacy threats, researchers and regulators have advocated for use of modern privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) such as synthetic data or differential privacy. Dr Rocher’s team aims to make these technologies more transparent and accountable.