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M. Sc. Patricia Guerra-Balboa

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


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. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2308.14649
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