Employments and Projects
EDÖB / PFPDT / FDPIC, Switzerland
Data Protection Specialist
2017 - present
at the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissionner
Swisscom, Switzerland
University of Bern, Switzerland
Senior Researcher
2013 - 2014
At the University of Bern I am Working on:
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Mobile Cloud Computing, integrating and virtualizing multiple network layers and services.
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Authentication in Information-Centric Networks
2010 - present
2010 - present
Nokia Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland
Principal Researcher
2009 - 2012
At Nokia I worked on Privacy Enhancing Technologies supporting contextual intelligence. Projects included:
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Nokia Instant Community Trial, involving 80 participants, developers, designers, students and lecturers.The trial focussed on privacy, and lead to several publications and valuable feedback to the platform developers [5,6].
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Nokia Lausanne Data Collection Campaign [2,4,13], which involved 200 participants during 2 years.
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Designing, analyzing, and prototyping privacy-preserving mobile services [1,7,8,9,11,10],[57,48]
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A user-friendly privacy panel [3,55], also used in an international user study on privacy perception
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Certificate Revocation in Constrained Wireless Channels [56].
Docomo Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany
Senior Researcher
2005 - 2009
At docomo I worked on:
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Secure and Privacy-Preserving Payment Delegation System [16],[66].
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Pin-pointing Human Network Activity in Wireless Traffic [14].
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Certificate revocation in Vehicular Networks [23].
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Quality of Service in wireless networks [21,12,24,26],[58,59,62,63,64,65,67]..
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Cooperative Communications [27,20,19,18,17,15],[68].
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Beam-forming and multi-user detection for interference cancellation [29,25],[71].
EPFL, Switzerland
Postdoctoral Researcher
2003 - 2005
During my stay at EPFL I started moving towards security in wireless networks. Topics included:
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DoS resilience in ad hoc networks [34,22].
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Anonymity and untraceability in wireless networks [30].
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“Cheating” in MAC protocols [32,36,23, and in the international and local press].
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IEEE 802.11 networks: Modeling, simulations and testbed measurements.
INRIA, Grenoble, France
Research Assistant, Postdoctoral Researcher
1999 - 2003
At INRIA I did my Masters and Ph.D. theses, then part of my postdoctoral research. Topics included:
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QoS and Cheating in Wireless Networks [44,39,43,46,41,45].
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Improving 802.11 in congested environments [33,37,35,38,41,40], in noisy environments [41].
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DiffServ in mobile environments [47].
Teaching
@Univ. of Bern
2013 - present
Advanced Networking and Future Internet: exercises and practical projects (internal)
@EPFL
2005 - 2009
At EPFL I was co-teaching “Introduction to communication systems” for the first year students.
This course aims at introducing the students to various aspects of telecommunications and
mobile networking. Moreover I co-prepared and supervised the hands-on exercises, the simulations lab and the exams of the wireless networking course for the diploma students.