Alex Miranda Pascual

M. Sc. Àlex Miranda-Pascual

About the Scientist

Àlex Miranda-Pascual is a PhD researcher at the Privacy and Security Chair of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He has a background in pure mathematics, with a special interest in group theory and probability theory. His research focuses on developing new differentially private techniques and studying existing ones, improving the privacy-utility tradeoffs of differential privacy. He has also worked with trajectory data and its protection under differential privacy.

Research interests:

  • Differential Privacy
  • Utility improvements
  • Data sampling in DP
  • Formal proofs
  • Trajectory data

Supervised theses

Title Qualification Graduation year
Enhancing Privacy Guarantees for Differentially Private Trajectory Clustering Bachelor 2025
Enhancing Differentially Private Mechanisms for Trajectory Data through Suppression Bachelor 2025
Evaluation and Comparison of Filtering Attacks on Trajectory-Anonymization Mechanisms Bachelor 2023

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
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