Category: Alumni L-Z

For students and researchers who graduated, names L-Z.

Santiago Andrés Azcoitia

Santiago Andrés Azcoitia‘s PhD aims at developing specific components to build a human-centric data economy. We are understanding the value chain in the data economy, increasing the transparency to data pricing, testing more efficient mechanisms to acquire data in SOTA marketplaces, and perform a more efficient value-based revenue distribution among data providers. He worked closely…Continue Reading Santiago Andrés Azcoitia

Umar Iqbal

Umar Iqbal graduated in 2021 and completed a two year postdoc at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He is now an Assistant Professor at the Washington University in St. Louis. He researches web privacy and security with an aim to bring more transparency and control…Continue Reading Umar Iqbal

Syed Mahbub Hafiz

Syed Mahbub Hafiz finished his postdoc at UC Davis where he explored Private Information Retrieval (PIR), a Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography-based Technology, to turn it from a theoretical construct to a useful tool in the privacy practitioners toolkit. He worked closely with Zubair Shafiq….Continue Reading Syed Mahbub Hafiz

Seoyeon Hwang

Seoyeon Hwang graduated in 2024 and is now a research scientist at Stealth Software. Her research interests were in the area of Applied Cryptography for data privacy. She explored various cryptographic techniques, such as MPC, PSI, ZKP, HE, etc., and was also interested in genomic security and IoT security relevant to data privacy. She was…Continue Reading Seoyeon Hwang