Claudia Diaz
ESAT - afdeling SCD/COSIC
19:00 "The challenge of protecting privacy in the information era".
Claudia Diaz received her master degree in Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Vigo (Spain), and her Ph.D. in engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium).
She is currently an assistant professor at the KU Leuven group COSIC (Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography). Her research is broadly focused on the topic of Privacy Enhancing Technologies, where she has more than thirty international peer-reviewed publications on topics including anonymous communications, anonymity metrics, steganographic file systems, traffic analysis and privacy by design.
She has served as reviewer in more than forty journals and program committees, acted as reviewer for EU projects, and is a member of the advisory board of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) and the scientific committee of CPDP. She has organized several workshops including the 8th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), served as program chair of the 16th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS'11), and chair of the PET Award 2011 (Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies).
