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Jean-Pierre Hubaux
Jean-Pierre Hubaux is a full professor at EPFL and head of the Laboratory for Data Security. Through his research, he contributes to laying the foundations and developing the tools for protecting privacy in today’s hyper-connected world. He has pioneered the areas of privacy and security in mobile/wireless networks and in personalized health. He is the academic director of the Center for Digital Trust (C4DT). He leads the Data Protection in Personalized Health (DPPH) project funded by the ETH Council and is a co-chair of the Data Security Work Stream of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH). From 2008 to 2019 he was one of the seven commissioners of the Swiss FCC. He is a Fellow of both IEEE (2008) and ACM (2010). Recent awards: two of his papers obtained distinctions at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in 2015 and 2018. He is among the most cited researchers in privacy protection and in information security. Spoken languages: French, English, German, Italian
Jean-Yves Le Boudec
Jean-Yves Le Boudec is full professor at EPFL and fellow of the IEEE. He graduated from Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint-Cloud, Paris, where he obtained the Agregation in Mathematics in 1980 (rank 4) and received his doctorate in 1984 from the University of Rennes, France. From 1984 to 1987 he was with INSA/IRISA, Rennes. In 1987 he joined Bell Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada, as a member of scientific staff in the Network and Product Traffic Design Department. In 1988, he joined the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory where he was manager of the Customer Premises Network Department. In 1994 he joined EPFL as associate professor. His interests are in the performance and architecture of communication systems. In 1984, he developed analytical models of multiprocessor, multiple bus computers. In 1990 he invented the concept called "MAC emulation" which later became the ATM forum LAN emulation project, and developed the first ATM control point based on OSPF. He also launched public domain software for the interworking of ATM and TCP/IP under Linux. He proposed in 1998 the first solution to the failure propagation that arises from common infrastructures in the Internet. He contributed to network calculus, a recent set of developments that forms a foundation to many traffic control concepts in the internet. He earned the Infocom 2005 Best Paper award, with Milan Vojnovic, for elucidating the perfect simulation and stationarity of mobility models, the 2008 IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize in the Field of Communications Networking, with Bozidar Radunovic, for the analysis of max-min fairness and the 2009 ACM Sigmetrics Best Paper Award, with Augustin Chaintreau and Nikodin Ristanovic, for the mean field analysis of the age of information in gossiping protocols. He is or has been on the program committee or editorial board of many conferences and journals, including Sigcomm, Sigmetrics, Infocom, Performance Evaluation and ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking. He co-authored the book "Network Calculus" (2001) with Patrick Thiran and is the author of the book "Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems" (2010).
Denis Gillet
Denis Gillet received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree in Information Systems also from the EPFL in 1995. During 1992 he was appointed as Research Fellow at the Information Systems Laboratory of Stanford University in the United States. He is currently Maître d'enseignement et de recherche at the EPFL School of Engineering, where he leads the React research group. His current research interests include Technologies Enhanced Learning (TEL), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Human Devices Interaction (HDI) and Optimal Coordination of Complex and Distributed Systems. Denis Gillet is affiliated at EPFL with the Center for Intelligent Systems and the Center for Digital Education.
Patrick Thiran
Patrick Thiran is a full professor in network and systems theory at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL. He holds an electrical engineering degree from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, an M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, USA, and he received the PhD degree from EPFL, in 1996. He became an adjunct professor in 1998, an assistant professor in 2002, an associate professor in 2006 and a full professor in 2011. He was with Sprint Advanced Technology Labs in Burlingame, California, in 2000-01.
His research interests are in communication and social networks, performance analysis and stochastic models. He is currently active in the analysis and design of wireless and PLC networks (scaling laws, medium access control), in network monitoring (network tomography, multi-layer networks), and data-driven network science. He also contributed to network calculus and to the theory of locally coupled neural networks and self-organizing maps.
He served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems in 1997-99 and for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking in 2006-10. He is currently on the editorial board of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication. He is/was on the program committee of different conferences in networking, including ACM Sigcomm, Sigmetrics, IMC, CoNext and IEEE Infocom. He was TPC chair of AMC IMC 2011 and CoNext 2012. He is a Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation and of the IEEE. He received the 1996 EPFL Doctoral Prize and the 2008 Crédit Suisse Teaching Award.
Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza
Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza received the M.S. degree in Telecommunications Engineering (Hons) from the University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain, in 2005, when he also received the Best Student Award from the Galician Government and the National Best Graduate Student Award from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. He held two consecutive grants from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science for collaboration with the Telematics Department (2004-2005) and for the development of the Ph.D. Thesis (Formación de Profesorado Universitario, 2006-2011). In 2012, he received the Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering (European Doctorate Mention, Hons). His Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Encrypted Domain Processing for Signal Processing Applications," was awarded the Best Ph.D. Thesis by the University of Vigo, and the best Ph.D. Thesis in Spain in Telecommunication Networks and Services by the Spanish Official Institute of Telecommunications Engineers (COIT).
He worked at the Signal Theory and Communications Department in the University of Vigo from 2005 to 2016 as an Associate Researcher, and as a Post-doctoral Researcher at AtlanTTic Research Center for Information and Communication Technologies at the University of Vigo since 2012. Between 2006 and 2007 he visited the Information and Systems Security Department at Philips Research Europe (The Netherlands), where he started working on genomic privacy and filed a PCT international patent application. In 2016, he joined the Laboratory for Communications and Applications 1 at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, as a Post-doctoral researcher to work in genomic privacy-related topics.
He is an elected member of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee and the IEEE Signal Processing Society Student Services Committee for the period 2017-2019. He has been a member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE WIFS 2015 and 2017, and part of the organizing committees of IEEE WIFS 2012, ACM IH&MMSEC 2016 and the upcoming EUSIPCO 2018. He has also taken part in several European projects in the area of multimedia security, such as ECRYPT and SPEED, both in FP6; during 2015-2018 he has been the scientific coordinator of the EU H2020 funded project WITDOM, focused on privacy-preserving computation in Cloud. He currently participates in several Swiss projects related to medical privacy and security (DPPH), and application of distributed ledger technologies. He has been reviewer of more than 20 peer-reviewed international journals and more than 30 editions of several international conferences in the field of information security, and serves now as Associate Editor of Elsevier's Digital Signal Processing Journal, EURASIP Journal on Information Security, EURASIP Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation, and IET Information Security.
He has also participated in several National and regional public-funded projects and private contracts related to information security and privacy protection, an area in which he has coauthored numerous papers in international journals and conferences, and holds four granted international patents in collaboration with Gradiant (Galician Research Center in Advanced Telecommunications).
His past teaching experience covers several undergraduate courses on Communications Theory and Digital Communications in Telecommunications Engineering Bachelor and 5-year degrees at the University of Vigo, and the supervision of multiple semester and master students at EPFL. Additionally, he worked as the network manager and webmaster of the Signal Processing in Communications Group at the University of Vigo from 2009 to 2016, and was the webmaster for the IEEE WIFS 2012.
His research interests include genomic privacy, secure signal processing, applied cryptography for privacy protection and multimedia security.
Bixio Rimoldi
Bixio Rimoldi received the Dipl. El.-Ing degree as well as the Dr. ès Sciences degree from the ETHZ, Switzerland. Since 1997, he holds a full professor position at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL and he is the director of EPFL's Mobile Communications Laboratory (LCM). Prior to joining EPFL, he was in the faculty of the Electrical Engineering department of Washington University.
In 1993, he received a US National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award. In 2000, he was elected to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE. During the period 2002-2009 he has been on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society, where he served in several offices including President. He was co-chairman with Bruce Hajek of the 1995 IEEE Information Theory Workshop on Information Theory, Multiple Access, and Queueing (St Louis, MO), and co-chairman with Jim Massey of the 2002 IEEE International Symposium in Information Theory (Lausanne, Switzerland). He has been a member of the editorial board of "Foundations and Trends on Communications and Information Theory," and was an editor of the European Transactions on Telecommunications. During 2005 and 2006 he was the Director of EPFL's Bachelor program in Communication Systems.
His interests are in various aspects of digital communications, information theory, and software-defined radio.