Alex Berke

Alex Berke, Robert Mahari, Sandy Pentland, Kent Larson, and Dana Calacci. 2024. Insights from an experiment crowdsourcing data from thousands of US Amazon users: The importance of transparency, money, and data use. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW2, Article 466 (November 2024), 48 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3687005

Alex Berke, Kent Larson, Chapter 3 - Mobile phones and their use to study dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic, Editor(s): Rajkumar Rajendram, Victor R. Preedy, Vinood B. Patel, Features, Transmission, Detection, and Case Studies in COVID-19, Academic Press, 2024, Pages 25-37, ISBN 9780323956468, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95646-8.00049-4

Berke, A., Calacci, D., Mahari, R. Yabe, T., Larson, K., & Pentland, S. Open e-commerce 1.0, five years of crowdsourced U.S. Amazon purchase histories with user demographics. Sci Data 11, 491 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03329-6

Berke, A., Truitt, W., Larson, K. (2023). Is access to public bike-share networks equitable? A multiyear spatial analysis across 5 U.S. Cities. Journal of Transport Geography, Volume 114, 2024, 103759, ISSN 0966-6923. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103759.

Alex Berke, Tobin South, Robert Mahari, Kent Larson, and Alex Pentland. 2024. Poster: zkTax: A Pragmatic Way to Support Zero-Knowledge Tax Disclosures. In Proceedings of Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’24). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3658644.3691421

Alex Berke, Geoffrey Ding, Christopher Chin, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Kent Larson, Hamsa Balakrishnan, Max Z. Li, Drone delivery and the value of customer privacy: A discrete choice experiment with U.S. consumers, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Volume 157, 2023, 104391, ISSN 0968-090X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2023.104391.

Berke, A., & Larson, K. (2023). The negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels: Results from randomized controlled experiments with US consumers. Appetite. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.106767

Berke, A., Doorley, R., Alfonso, L., & Larson, K. (2022). Preserving Sustainability Gains of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of MIT Campus Commuting. Transportation Research Record. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981221088776

Ding, G., Berke, A., Gopalakrishnan, K., Degue, K., Balakrishnan, H., & Li, M. (2022). Routing with Privacy for Drone Package Delivery Systems. International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT) 2022.

Alex Berke and Dan Calacci. 2022. Privacy Limitations of Interest-based Advertising on The Web: A Post-mortem Empirical Analysis of Google’s FLoC. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’22), November 7–11, 2022, Los Angeles, CA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3548606.3560626

Berke A, Doorley R, Alonso L, Arroyo V, Pons M, & Larson, K. (2022) Using mobile phone data to estimate dynamic population changes and improve the understanding of a pandemic: A case study in Andorra. PLOS ONE 17(4): e0264860. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264860

Berke, A., Lee, N., Chwalek, P. (2021). Private Delivery Networks: Extended Abstract. Presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Obfuscation, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 7 May.

Doorley, R., Berke, A., Noyman, A., Alonso, L., Ribó, J., Arroyo, V., Pons, M. and Larson, K., 2021. Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra: Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spread. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 26(1), pp.183-193.

Berke, A. (2020). From private location data to public good. (Masters thesis). MIT Media Lab.

Berke A., Nawyn J., Lengeling T.S., Larson K. (2020) Urban Mobility Swarms: A Scalable Implementation. In: Arai K., Kapoor S., Bhatia R. (eds) Intelligent Computing. SAI 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1229. Springer, Cham

Alex Berke and Kent Larson, City Science group, MIT Media Lab (2020). https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/157499

Alex Berke, Michiel Bakker, Praneeth Vepakomma, Kent Larson, Alex `Sandy' Pentland. (March 31 2020). "Assessing Disease Exposure Risk with Location Data: A Proposal for Cryptographic Preservation of Privacy." Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.14412

Berke, Alex, et al. Beautiful Symmetry: A Coloring Book about Math. MIT Press (February 2020).

Berke, A., Sanchez Lengeling, T., Nawyn, J., & Larson, K. (2019, November). Bike Swarm. In Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 1-4). ACM.

Calacci, Dan, Alex Berke, Kent Larson, Sandy Pentland. "The tradeoff between the utility and risk of location data and implications for public good." Presented at the Oxford & London School of Economics Connected Life conference. (2019). https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09350

Alex Berke, Ronan Doorley, Kent Larson, Esteban Moro. 2022. Generating synthetic mobility data for a realistic population with RNNs to improve utility and privacy. In Proceedings of The 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ’22). 955-959. https://doi.org/10.1145/3477314.3507230