[4] Narayanan received technical degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2004.

Narayanan received his PhD in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in 2009 under Vitaly Shmatikov.

However, Narayanan and advisor Vitaly Shmatikov showed possibilities for de-anonymizing this information by linking this anonymized data to publicly available IMDb user accounts.

[citation needed] Later Narayanan de-anonymized graphs from social networking[8] and writings from blogs.

He has argued for more substantial teaching of ethics in computer science education[15] and usable[clarification needed] cryptography.