I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, at The University of British Columbia (UBC). In my research, I study how to design privacy-enhancing technologies that offer strong privacy-utility trade-offs.

I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo working with Prof. Florian Kerschbaum (Oct 2019 – Jul 2023). I received my PhD from the University of Vigo (Spain) under the supervision of Prof. Carmela Troncoso and Prof. Fernando Pérez-González.

Research interests

I am broadly interested in computer security and privacy problems. My research studies these problems from a statistical perspective, using theoretical tools to quantify the privacy leakage of different systems and design strong defenses. My research topics include, but are not limited to:

• Privacy-preserving searchable encryption.
• Privacy-preserving machine learning.
• Anonymous communication systems.
• Differential privacy.

Prospective students

I am looking for motivated students that want to do research on privacy-enhancing technologies, preferably in the research topics mentioned above. Please see the prospective students page for more information.

Update, Fall 2024: This year I am getting quite a lot of emails from students and sadly many of them are not even that related to my research. If you send me an email, it is very likely that I’ll put it in my folder of “prospective student emails” and I plan to read it at some point, but it might take a while.

Ultimately, if you want to work with me, please apply using UBC’s official applications, as that is the only way that I can hire students at the end of the day.