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Jean-Pierre Hubaux
Computer Communications and Applications Laboratory 1
web site: http://people.epfl.ch/jean-pierre.hubaux

office(s): BC207
phone(s): [+41 21 69] 32627,32621
fax: +41-21-693-6610
NEWS
For students: if you are interested in doing a project, please check the box at the bottom right of this Web page.

The graduate textbook Security and Cooperation in Wireless Networks is available online (print-protected) and can be purchased.
Please visit the book Web page.
Doctoral course COM-614 (see below under "Teaching") is based on that book.
PROJECTS
Privacy
- Location and data privacy

Thwarting malicious behavior in wireless networks
- Secure vehicular communications
- Secure neighbor discovery

Thwarting selfish behavior in wireless networks
- Non-cooperative behavior in wireless networks

Game theory and security
Game theory can be useful to model security mechanisms in the presence of selfish stakeholders. For more information,
check here.

We are applying this approach notably to:
- Securing online advertisement
- Recommendation systems


Other aspects of wireless networks (these projects have been phased out)
- Key management in decentralized wireless networks
- DOMINO (protecting WiFi hotspots against greedy behavior)
- CommonSense (Water management in rural areas by means of wireless sensors)
- Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Elements
- CSMA/CA
- Group Communication in ad hoc networks

BIOGRAPHY
Jean-Pierre Hubaux joined the faculty of EPFL in 1990. His research activity is focused on wireless networks, with a special interest in security and cooperation issues.

In 1991, he designed the first curriculum in Communication Systems at EPFL. He was promoted to full professor in 1996. In 1999, he defined some of the main ideas of the National Competence Center in Research named "Mobile Information and Communication Systems" (NCCR/MICS); this center (still very active) is often nicknamed "the Terminodes Project". In this framework, he has notably defined, in close collaboration with his students, novel schemes for the security and cooperation in wireless networks; in particular, he has devised new techniques for key management, secure positioning, and incentives for cooperation in such networks. In 2003, he identified the security of vehicular networks as one of the main research challenges for real-world mobile ad hoc networks. In 2008, he completed a graduate textbook entitled "Security and Cooperation in Wireless Networks", with Levente Buttyan.

He is co-founder and chairman of the steering committee of WiSec (the ACM Conference for Wireless Network Security). He is also the chairman of the steering committee of MobiHoc (the ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing) and was for several years an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He has served on the program committees of numerous conferences and workshops, including SIGCOMM, INFOCOM, MobiCom, MobiHoc, SenSys, WiSe, and VANET. He is one of the seven commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission (ComCom), the "Swiss FCC".

He held visiting positions at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and at UC Berkeley.

He has been on the advisory board of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs) since their creation in 2004.

He is an IEEE Fellow.

He was born in Belgium, but spent most of his childhood and youth in Northern Italy. After completing his studies in electrical engineering at Politecnico di Milano, he worked 10 years in France with Alcatel, primarily in the area of switching systems architecture and software.
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Papers

Conference Papers

All (contains also Tech Reports)
TEACHING
COM-614 : Security and Cooperation in Wireless Networks (PhD level course, open also to Master's students, Fall semester)

Mobile Networks (Master's course, Spring semester)


Computer Networks (Bachelors's course, Fall semester)
SELECTED TALKS
Keynote speech at Financial Crypto (Canary Islands, January 2010)

Invited talk at the colloquim of the Zurich Information Security Center (ZISC, November 2009):
"Security Mechanisms with Selfish Players in Wireless Networks"

Keynote speech at the European Wireless Conference (Aalborg, May 2009): "The Ultimate Challenge for Wireless Networks is to Secure Them!"

Distinguished lecture at the Information Trust Institute of UIUC (Urbana-Champaign, April 2009): "Security and Non-Cooperative Behavior in Wireless Networks"

Keynote speech at GameComm (Athens, October 2008): "Game Theory and Wireless Security"

Tutorial at Mobicom (Montreal, Canada, September 2007): "Security and Cooperation in Wireless Networks", with Panos Papadimitratos

Panel organization at Mobicom (Montreal, Canada, September 2007): "Bonobos Vs Chimps: Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Behavior in Wireless Networks"

Contribution to the Research Institute FuDiCo III: Building MAD Systems, Bertinoro, Italy, June 2007

Keynote speech at the Workshop in Information Security Theory and Practices (Heraklion, May 2007): Security and Cooperation in Wireless Networks

Joint lecture at the "Ecole Jeunes Chercheurs en Informatique et Mathématiques", with T. Alpcan (T-Labs) Nancy, France, March 2007:
Théorie des jeux appliquée aux réseaux sans fils

Invited talks at Cambridge University, UK, February 2007:
- Security and Cooperation in Wireless Networks
- Securing Vehicular Networks

Contribution to the Croucher Foundation Advanced Study Institute on Wireless Sensor Networks, Hong-Kong, December 2006

Keynote speech at the European Workshop on Security of Ad hoc and Sensor Networks, Hamburg, Germany, September 2006 (ESAS 2006):
Security and Cooperation in Wireless Networks


Contribution to the summer school on Wireless Security (SWING), Bertinoro, Italy, September 2006

Contribution to the summer school RESCOM, Porquerolles, June 2006:
Securing Vehicular Communications


Keynote speech at ACM Mobihoc 2006, Florence, May 2006:
Security and Cooperation in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Revisiting Niccolo´ Machiavelli


Keynote speech at ARCS'06: Architecture of Computing Systems
Frankfurt/Main (Germany), March 2006:
Modelling cooperative and greedy behavior in wireless networks


Keynote speech at Performance 2005, Juan les Pins, France, October 2005:
Performance Challenges for Secure Vehicular Communications

Keynote speech at Securecomm, Athens, Greece, September 2005:
The Security of Vehicular Communications

Lecture at the MINEMA summer school, Klagenfurt, Austria, July 2005:
Secure and Cooperative Wireless Networks

Keynote speech at the Workshop on Embedded Security in Cars (escar 2004), Bochum, Germany, November 2004:
The Security and Privacy of Smart Vehicles

Keynote speech at the Seventh Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2004), Venice, Italy, October 2004:
Rational Behaviors in Hotspots and in Ad hoc Networks


Keynote speech at the 1st European Workshop on Security in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (ESAS 2004), Heidelberg, Germany, August 2004:
New Research Challenges for the Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

Keynote speech at the Eröffnungskolloquium des Sonderforschungsbereich 627 Nexus, Stuttgart, Germany, November 2003 :
Peer-to-peer Security in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
MAIL ADDRESS
Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux
Laboratory for computer Communications and Applications (LCA)
School of Computer and Communication Sciences
EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne)
BC 207 (BC Building)
Station 14
CH - 1015 Lausanne
Skills
Mobile and wireless networks, Security, Privacy, Non-cooperative behavior
Teaching
Communication Systems

Phd programs
Phd Students
Bilogrevic Igor
Freudiger Julien
Humbert Mathias
Poturalski Marcin
Shokri Reza
Vratonjic Nevena
POSTDOCS
Murtuza Jadliwala
Hossein Manshaei
Panos Papadimitratos
Maxim Raya
New textbook
Book Cover
OPENINGS
No open position for the time being.
FORMER PhD STUDENTS
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STUDENT PROJECTS
Project proposals

Hints for student projects
INTERNSHIPS
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