I am an associate professor in the Department of Information Systems (Faculty of Business and Economics) at the University of Lausanne. Prior to this, I was a scientific project manager at the Cyber-Defence Campus, a senior data scientist at the Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC), ETHZ and EPFL, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for IT-Security, Privacy, and Accountability (CISPA), in Saarbrücken. I completed my Ph.D. thesis in 2015 in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL (Switzerland), after B.Sc./M.Sc. studies at EPFL and UC Berkeley.
My research interests lie at the intersection of privacy, cybersecurity, and machine learning. I am currently investigating privacy risks in various contexts, such as machine learning as a service (MLaaS), online social networks, wearable devices, and spectrum monitoring. Furthermore, I am applying machine learning and data analytics to earlier detect cyber-threats. My research expertise includes genomic privacy, privacy in online social networks, location privacy, game theory, and probabilistic graphical models.
In my Ph.D. thesis (available here), I have notably analyzed the variety of interdependencies in individuals’ data, and their impact on privacy. I have shown the impossibility of protecting privacy individually and independently of others (stemming from the lack of control over correlated data), and the need for new definitions of privacy, in its social context, and as a common good.
Joint Publications
Salehzadeh Niksirat, K., Velykoivanenko, L., Zufferey, N., Cherubini, M., Huguenin, K. & Humbert, M. (2024) Wearable Activity Trackers: A Survey on Utility, Privacy, and Security. ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CSUR). Vol. 56, Issue. 7, Article 183 (April 2024), 40 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3645091
Niksirat, K. S., Korka, D., Jacquemin, Q., Vanini, C., Humbert, M., Cherubini, M., … & Huguenin, K. (2024). Security and Privacy with Second-Hand Storage Devices: A User-Centric Perspective from Switzerland. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs), 2024(2), 22.: https://serval.unil.ch/en/notice/serval:BIB_B69A6B006D03
Maceiras, M., Salehzadeh Niksirat, K., Bernard, G., Garbinato, B., Cherubini, M., Humbert, M., & Huguenin, K. (2024). Know their Customers: An Empirical Study of Online Account Enumeration Attacks. ACM Transactions on the Web. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3664201
M. Humbert, I. D. Dupertuis, M. Cherubini, K. Huguenin. KGP Meter: Communicating Kin Genomic Privacy to the Masses. In Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), Genoa, Italy, p. 20, Jun 2022. DOI: 10.1109/EuroSP53844.2022.00033
Velykoivanenko, L., Salehzadeh Niksirat, K., Zufferey, N., Humbert, M., Huguenin, K., & Cherubini, M. 2021. Are Those Steps Worth Your Privacy? Fitness-Tracker Users’ Perceptions of Privacy and Utility. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) 5, 4, Article 181 (December 2021), 41 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3494960
A. Meylan, M. Cherubini, B. Chapuis, M. Humbert, I. Bilogrevic, and K. Huguenin. 2020. A Study on the Use of Checksums for Integrity Verification of Web Downloads. ACM Transasctions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 24, 1, Article 4 (September 2020), 36 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3410154
B. Chapuis, O. Omolola, M. Cherubini, M. Humbert, K. Huguenin. An Empirical Study of the Use of Integrity Verification Mechanisms for Web Subresources. In Proc. of the The Web Conference (WWW’20), Taipei, Taiwan, Apr 2020. DOI:10.1145/3366423.3380092
M. Cherubini, A. Meylan, B. Chapuis, M. Humbert, I. Bilogrevic, K. Huguenin (2018). Towards Usable Checksums: Automating the Integrity Verification of Web Downloads for the Masses. In Proc. of the 25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’18), Toronto, ON, Canada, Oct 2018. DOI: 10.1145/3243734.3243746
