Contact Info

Dr. David Rebollo-Monedero
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Telematics Engineering
Technical University of Catalonia (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC)
Barcelona, Spain

Address:
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Campus Nord, Módulo C5, Despacho S102A
C. Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain

e-Mail:
Phone: +34 93 401 7027
Fax: +34 93 401 1058

Bio

David Rebollo-Monedero received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, California, USA, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. His doctoral research at Stanford focused on data compression; more specifically, quantization and transforms for distributed source coding. He was also a teaching assistant for a number of graduate courses on signal processing and image compression.

Previously, he was an information technology consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, in Barcelona (Spain), from 1997 to 2000, and was involved in the Retevisión startup venture. During the summer of 2003, still as a Ph.D. student at Stanford, he carried out research for Apple Computer with the QuickTime video codec team in California, USA. Among his awards are the “la Caixa” Foundation fellowship for graduate studies.

He is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the Information Security Group of the Department of Telematics Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Technical University of Catalonia, UPC), Barcelona, Spain. His research interests span computer security, conventional and distributed source coding, channel coding, signal processing, classification, statistical inference, and artificial intelligence. Currently, he investigates the application of mathematical formalisms, originally intended for information-theoretic and operational data compression, to the trade-off between privacy and data utility in information systems.

The Information Security Group at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Technical University of Catalonia, UPC) is a public institution dedicated to higher education and research, specialized in the fields of engineering, science and architecture, located in Catalonia, Spain. The Department of Telematics Engineering at UPC has over 60 members including professors, instructors and fellows. Within this department, the goal of the Information Security Group (ISG) is cutting-edge research addressing a rich variety of interlaced issues concerning advanced information security and privacy, of the utmost relevance in the design of trustworthy information-exchange functionality. More specifically, our activity spans the fields of authentication and authorization, digital rights management, mobile agent security, privacy in a number of information systems, security in P2P networks, and security in wireless networks.

Over the course of 20 years, the ISG has published extensively in conferences and journals of international prestige, including the IEEE Communications Magazine, the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, the IEEE Multimedia, the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and the IEEE Wireless Personal Communication. The ISG has participated in numerous government and industry projects, comprising FP6 UBISEC, FP6 e-Representative, several Leonardo da Vinci projects, and the 2010 ARES Consolider Ingenio. The Catalan Official Telecommunications Society awarded the group with the 2003 Prize for the Most Outstanding Research Project.

In its active search for consortiums working towards international projects, the ISG is mainly interested in innovative, theoretical research, but also in the close collaboration with industry and SMBs on development, integration, proof-of-concept implementation, validation and extended services.