Valentina Ebrahimi

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UNIL | Université de Lausanne – HEC
Department of Information Systems (DESI)
CH-1015 Lausanne

Short CV

  • since 2023: Project Manager, RayShaper SA
  • 2024: Graduate Research Assistant, Sustainability Accounting, HEC Lausanne
  • 2021 – 2023: MSc Finance, Asset & Risk Management, HEC Lausanne
  • 2018 – 2021: BSc Economics & Political Economy, HEC Lausanne

Research Interests

  • Digital trust & trustworthy information systems
  • Secure evidence management, provenance & chain of trust
  • Privacy-preserving AI & biometric data protection
  • Governance, accountability & data sovereignty

Selected Research Projects

  • EvidenceChain — Digital trust & secure evidence data management. Research concept for trustworthy multi-stakeholder evidence ecosystems, addressing provenance, chain of trust, accountability, legal compliance, Swiss data sovereignty and stakeholder-centered process modelling.
  • FaceShield — Facial privacy protection. Privacy-preserving image-sharing approach developed with HEC Lausanne, HEIG-VD and RayShaper SA, linking facial privacy technologies with user acceptance, dissemination and potential use cases.
  • EVASION — Visual event sensing / SportTech. Eureka Eurostars project on visual event sensing for SportTech; project management and coordination of a demonstration connected with Milano-Cortina 2026.
  • 5GMediaHUB — Media applications over 5G. European collaborative project on advanced media applications and ultra-low-latency video streaming; contributions to exploitation strategy and risk analysis.

Selected Publication

“FaceShield: a versatile approach to protect facial privacy.” SPIE Optics + Photonics 2026, presentation 14217-2. SPIE record