EDÖB / PFPDT / FDPIC, Switzerland

Data Protection Specialist 

​2017 - present

​

at the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissionner​

Swisscom, Switzerland

Data Scientist

​2014 - 2017

At  Swisscom I have worked on Big Data privacy and security

University of Bern, Switzerland

Senior Researcher

​2013 - 2014

At the University of Bern I am Working on:

• Mobile Cloud Computing, integrating and virtualizing multiple network layers and services.

• 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:

• 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].

• Nokia Lausanne Data Collection Campaign [2,4,13], which involved 200 participants during 2 years.

• Designing, analyzing, and prototyping privacy-preserving mobile services [1,7,8,9,11,10],[57,48]

• A user-friendly privacy panel [3,55], also used in an international user study on privacy perception

• Certificate Revocation in Constrained Wireless Channels [56].

Docomo Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany

Senior Researcher

​2005 - 2009

At docomo I worked on:

• Secure and Privacy-Preserving Payment Delegation System [16],[66].

• Pin-pointing Human Network Activity in Wireless Traffic [14].

• Certificate revocation in Vehicular Networks [23].

• Quality of Service in wireless networks [21,12,24,26],[58,59,62,63,64,65,67]..

• Cooperative Communications [27,20,19,18,17,15],[68].

• 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:

• DoS resilience in ad hoc networks [34,22].

• Anonymity and untraceability in wireless networks [30].

• “Cheating” in MAC protocols [32,36,23, and in the international and local press].

• 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:

• QoS and Cheating in Wireless Networks [44,39,43,46,41,45].

• Improving 802.11 in congested environments [33,37,35,38,41,40], in noisy environments [41].

• 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.