Privacy – KAVOUS SALEHZADEH NIKSIRAT

Joining the SPRING Lab at EPFL as a Postdoctoral Fellow

I had three beautiful years at the University of Lausanne with my colleagues at the ISP and PET labs. I sincerely thank all their support, friendship, and intelligence, particularly Prof. Kévin Huguenin and Prof. Mauro Cherubini for their excellent guidance and support.

Now it is time to move on!

I am so excited to announce that as of March 1st, 2023, I will start working as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Carmela Troncoso from the SPRING Lab at EPFL. I hope to contribute to my new team’s research and keep up the work.

My New Article about MPCs in ACM DIS 2021

Our paper is just presented in ACM DIS 2021 and is available on ACM Digital Library.

Check out our paper to discover the ten exciting ideas young social network users co-designed for mitigating privacy conflicts caused by non-consensual multimedia sharing!

A Talk about Utility and Privacy of Fitness Trackers

I attended the CyberAlp event held in Gstaad, Switzerland on June 28-29, 2021. Together with Lev Velykoivanenko, I presented our latest research in the ISP lab about fitness tracker users’ privacy and utility perceptions.

Summary of PET 2020

I’ve recently attended the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2020 or so-called PETS. PETS is one of the leading venues for privacy research (with around 23% acceptance rate). All accepted papers get published in the PoPETs journal (Proceedings on PETs). My purpose in writing this blog is to provide a summary of the interesting research projects that I’ve seen in PETS.

A New Adventure in UNIL!

I have started my new job as a postdoctoral fellow in University of Lausanne (UNIL). I will work together with Mauro Cherubini and Kévin Huguenin to address multiparty privacy conflicts in social networks. The project is funded by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF).