Jean-Pierre Hubaux
Fields of expertise
Privacy Protection, Information Security, Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning, Data Protection in Personalized Health
Biography
Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux is the academic director of the EPFL Center for Digital Trust (C4DT). For its whole duration (April 2018 - December 2021), he led the Data Protection in Personalized Health (DPPH) project funded by the ETH Council. Until December 2021, he was a co-chair of the Data Security Work Stream of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH). From 2008 to 2019 he was one of the seven commissioners of the Swiss FCC. He is a Fellow of both IEEE and ACM. Recent awards: three of his papers obtained distinctions at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, the flagship event on the topic (in 2015, 2018 and 2021). He is among the most cited researchers in privacy protection and in information security. He is a co-founder of Tune Insight SA.Spoken languages: French, English, German, Italian