People

Please see here for my research interests. I am generally happy to discuss project proposals proposed by students themselves provided the proposal contains a well-defined objective and a clear motivation. I encourage excellent students to apply for Master/PhD study in the field of information security and privacy.

I am currently supervising the following Post-doc Researchers:

• Dr. David Rebollo-Monedero, (from 2008). Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University, California, USA, starting at March 2008. Research topic: privacy.

• Dr. Ahmad Mezher, (from July 2016). Ph.D. in Telematics Engineering from UPC, Research topic: privacy in Critical Infrastructures.

I am currently supervising the following PhD students:

• Antonio González Robles: Thesis proposal "Private user-centric management of electronic services in smart communities"

• José Antonio Estrada: Thesis proposal "PRIVACY IN ONLINE ADVERTISING PLATFORMS"

• Ana Rodriguez Hoyos: Thesis proposal "CONTRIBUTIONS TO PRIVACY-ENHANCING TECHNOLOGIES FOR MACHINE LEARNING APPLICATIONS"

Ex-PhD students successfully completed:

• Jose Luis Muñoz (2003): “Design and Evaluation of Certificate Revocation Systems”. (now at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

• Cristina Satizábal (2007): “Contribución a la validación de certificados en arquitecturas de autenticación y autorización”. (now at Universidad de Pamplona, Colombia)

• Rafael Páez (2007): “Contribución a la seguridad perimetral a través de sistemas de detección de intrusos basados en agentes” (now at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia)

• María Francisca Hinarejos (2010): "Seguridad en redes de computación ubicua: contribución a la validación de certificados" (now at Univesitat de les Illes Balears, Spain).

• Javier Parra-Arnau (2013). "Privacy Protection of User Profiles in Personalized Information Systems" (coadvisor: David Rebollo-Monedero) (now atUniversitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain). Best Ph.D. Thesis on Information and Communication Technologies in Banking, from the Official College of Telecommunication Engineers (COIT) and Banco Sabadell

• Silvia Puglisi (2017): "Analysis, modelling and proteccion of online private data" (now at "The TOR Project")

Ex-MSc. students successfully completed:

• Judit de Nicolás Torres (2014)

• Christina Kapi (2013). "Information Retrieval and Evaluation of the Privacy Risk on Twitter" http://hdl.handle.net/2099.1/20349

• Jose Antonio Estrada (2013). "Implementation of a Firefox Extension that Measures User Privacy Risk in Web Search" http://hdl.handle.net/2099.1/19549

• Ana Fernanda Rodríguez Hoyos (2013). "Evaluation of the privacy risk for online search and social tagging systems" http://hdl.handle.net/2099.1/19550

• Marta Lusarreta (2012)

• Adrien Daunou (2012). "Design of a privacy-aware routing protocol for vehicular ad hoc networks" http://hdl.handle.net/2099.1/14528

• Jaime Santos (2011). "A reputation-based scheme for announcement messages in vehicular networks" http://hdl.handle.net/2099.1/13013

• Laia Subirats (2009). "A Transparent, Reputation-Based Architecture for Semantic Web Annotation" http://hdl.handle.net/2099.1/7626

• Adrián Cuenca (2007)

• Manuel Rey (2005)

• Xavier Altafulla (2005)

• Àngel Subirana (2004)

• Segio Anguita (2004)

• María Francisca Hinarejos (2003)

• Joan Centelles (2003)

• Alberto Larraz (2003)

• Santiago López Flores (2002)

• Carlos Vicente Yepes (2001)

• Carles Bayés (2001)

• Ausias Vives (2001)

• Javier Jarne (2000)

• Gustavo Benéitez (2000)

• Antonio Poyato (1999)

• Oscar Conesa (1999)

• Mari Carmen Fernández (1999)

• Albert Hurtado (1999)

• David Cos (1998)

• Rosa Maria Paradell (1997)

• David Rebollo-Monedero (1997)

• Sergio Ceña (1996)

• Luis De la Cruz (1994)

• Esteve Pallarès (1994)