Research Interest:

Distributed Systems, Blockchain technology, Security, Privacy.

Short Bio:

Yahya Benkaouz is currently an associate professor at the Mohamed V University in Rabat. Prior to this, he received his PhD from the ENSIAS, Mohammed V University in Rabat. The PhD thesis, entitled : "Privacy-preserving Protocols for Distributed Data Aggregation", was defended on July 2015. During his PhD, he visited several research labs and groups: LPD (EPFL : 2010, 2012), STG (Technische Universität Darmstadt : 2011), ASAP (INRIA Rennes : 2013) and DSG (Philipps-Universität Marburg : 2014). He is mainly interested in Big data analytics and distributed systems/algorithms with a focus on privacy.

Selected Publications:

• K. Boubouh, A. Boussetta, Y. Benkaouz, R. Guerraoui, "Robust P2P Personalized Learning". in SRDS 2020.

• Y. Benkaouz, M. Erradi and A.M. Kermarrec, “Nearest Neighbors Graph Construction: Peer Sampling to the Rescue”, in NETYS'16, Springer, 2016.

• Y. Benkaouz, M. Erradi and B. Freisleben, “K-Nearest Neighbors Techniques for ABAC Policies Clustering”, in ACM ABAC@CODASPY'16.

• Y. Benkaouz and M. Erradi, “A Distributed Protocol for Privacy Preserving Aggregation with Non-Permanent Participants”, in Computing, Springer, 2015.

• Y. Benkaouz, R. Guerraoui, M. Erradi and F. Huc, “A Distributed Polling with Probabilistic Privacy”, in SRDS 2013.