January 2022
The Values and Policies of Personal Information Chair is delighted to welcome three new associate researchers in computer science. They will consolidate the existing team and strengthen our international presence and activities.
First of all, we welcome Mr. Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Professor of Computer Science and ICREA-Acadèmia Research Professor at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona in Catalonia.
Professor Domingo-Ferrer has been Director of the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy since 2007 and Academic Director of the Serra Hunter Program, Government of Catalonia since 2015. His research focuses on security and privacy technologies, specifically anonymization and statistical disclosure control, anti-discrimination in machine learning, data mining and cryptography. More broadly, he is interested in the ethics by design of computer technologies.
Collaboration with the Chair has already begun with the co-organization of the Privacy in statistical databases conference, PSD 2022, which will take place from September 14 to 16, 2022 at the CNAM in Paris.
We also welcome Sophie Chabridon, Director of Studies in Computer Science and member of the Samovar laboratory at Télécom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Ms. Chabridon is director of the DSI (Integration and Deployment of Information Systems) specialization program in the 3rd year of engineering at Télécom SudParis.
She is interested in software engineering and middleware for distributed systems, and in particular in distributed data management, taking into account data quality and the protection of personal data. For several years now, Professor Chabridon has been collaborating with the VP-P Chair on topics relating to the protection of personal data in the Internet of Things[1], and event-based systems (publish-subscribe)[2]. Ties were strengthened in 2020 with the co-supervision of Mr. Nathanaël Denis' doctoral thesis.
Finally, we are delighted to welcome Nathanaël Denis, a Télécom SudParis engineer specializing in Systems and Network Security, as a new associate researcher. He is completing his doctorate under the supervision of Professors Maryline Laurent and Sophie Chabridon.
His thesis topic concerns “a secure and privacy-friendly Internet of Things, combining users' privacy needs and industrial compliance obligations with the RGPD”. The topics addressed concern the evaluation of privacy-enhancing technologies, such as usage control, adapted to the constraints of the Internet of Things in terms of scale and dynamicity in particular.
A first publication was recently accepted at the 16th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management[3].
Maryline Laurent, Professor of Computer Science at Télécom SudParis and co-founder of the VP-IP Chair
[1] S. Coroller, S. Chabridon, M. Laurent, D. Conan, J. Leneutre, "Towards End-to-end Privacy for Publish/Subscribe Architectures in the Internet of Things", position paper, Federated Workshop on Middleware and Applications for the Internet of Things (M4IoT), Rennes, France, 10-14 Dec 2018.
[2] N. Denis, P. Chaffardon, D. Conan, M. Laurent, S. Chabridon, J. Leneutre, "Privacy-Preserving Content-Based Publish/Subscribe with Encrypted Matching and Data Splitting", short paper, SECRYPT 17th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, SECRYPT 2020, DOI 10.5220/0009833204050414, Lieusaint, France, 8-10 July 2020.
[3] N. Denis, S. Chabridon, M. Laurent, "Bringing Privacy, Security and Performance to the Internet of Things through Usage Control and Blockchains", 16th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management, https://ifip-summerschool.org/.