About the Scientist

Patricia Guerra-Balboa is a PhD student at the Chair of IT Security at KIT. She has a background in mathematics, especially graph theory and algebraic geometry. Her current research interests lie in privacy-preserving data analytics with a strong focus on privacy-preserving trajectory data publishing with differential privacy guarantees.

Research Interests

Privacy preserving data publishing (e.g. trajectory privacy)
Differential Privacy Theory
Technical privacy notions with mathematically proven guarantees
Privacy notions on graph data
Topological privacy notions

Curriculum Vitæ

since 2021: PhD student at the chair of IT Security, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
2021 – 2022: High-level research technician at Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain
2021 – 2021: High-level research technician at University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2020 – 2021: Master of Science in Mathematics at University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2016 – 2020: Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at University of Santiage de Compostela, Spain

Awards

2023: Best Poster Award 2023 at Community Congress by StartUpSecure
2018: Linear algebra with Honors, University of Santiago de Compostela
2017: Matrix calculus and vector spaces with Honors, University of Santiago de Compostela
2016: Recognition for Best Records, University of Santiago de Compostela

Reviewer for …

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE TIFS)
ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communication Security (ASIACCS)
European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS)

Participation in Conferences

2022: XVII Spanish Meeting on Cryptography and Information Security (RECSI’22)
2022: Garcı́a Rodeja Seminar
2022: The Third AIII Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence
2021: Seminario de iniciación a la investigación

Publications

Unlocking the Potential of Composition for General Neighborhood Definitions
Miranda-Pascual, À.; Guerra-Balboa, P.; Parra-Arnau, J.; Strufe, T.
2024. Proceedings of the XVIII Spanish Meeting on Cryptology and Information Security (RECSI), León, 22th - 25st October, 2024

Analysis and Measurement of Attack Resilience of Differential Privacy
Guerra-Balboa, P.; Sauer, A.; Strufe, T.
2024. WPES ’24: Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society. Ed.: E. Ayday, 155–171, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3689943.3695046

An overview of proposals towards the privacy-preserving publication of trajectory data
Miranda-Pascual, À.; Guerra-Balboa, P.; Parra-Arnau, J.; Forné, J.; Strufe, T.
2024. International Journal of Information Security, 23 (6), 3711–3747. doi:10.1007/s10207-024-00894-0

Composition in Differential Privacy for General Granularity Notions
Guerra-Balboa, P.; Miranda-Pascual, À.; Parra-Arnau, J.; Strufe, T.
2024. 2024 IEEE 37th Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF), 8th-12th July 2024, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/CSF61375.2024.00004

SoK: Differentially Private Publication of Trajectory Data
Miranda-Pascual, À.; Guerra-Balboa, P.; Parra-Arnau, J.; Forné, J.; Strufe, T.
2023. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 496–516, De Gruyter. doi:10.56553/popets-2023-0065

La Publicación de Trayectorias: un Estudio sobre la Protección de la Privacidad
Guerra-Balboa, P.; Miranda-Pascual, À.; Parra-Arnau, J.; Forné, J.; Strufe, T.
2022. Proceedings of the XVII Spanish Meeting on Cryptology and Information Security (RECSI), Santader, 19th - 21st October, 2022. doi:10.22429/Euc2022.028

Anonymizing Trajectory Data: Limitations and Opportunities
Guerra-Balboa, P.; Miranda-Pascual, À.; Strufe, T.; Parra-Arnau, J.; Forné, J.
2022. AAAI Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence