Short BIO

Since October 2010 Claudia Diaz is Assistant Professor at the COSIC research group of the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) at the K.U.Leuven (Belgium). She received her master degree in Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Vigo (Spain), and her Ph.D. in engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Her research is broadly focused on the topic of Privacy Enhancing Technologies, where she has more than twenty international peer-reviewed publications on topics including anonymous communications, anonymity metrics, steganographic file systems, and traffic analysis. She has organized several workshops including the 8th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, has served as reviewer in more than twenty-five journals and program committees and is an associate editor of the journal of Identity in the Information Society (IDIS).
 

CPDP Conferences

Member of the scientific committee.

 

CPCP Conference 2012

Hosting of the CPDP2012 panel 'A ‘Trusted’ Panel: A Need for Constructive Distrust?'

 

CPCP Conference 2011

Hosting of the CPDP2011 panel: Data Breaches by Government Departments and Problems with E-Voting
 

 

On-line publications

Towards measuring anonymity. Claudia Diaz, Stefaan Seys, Joris Claessens and Bart Preneel. Designing Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET'02). R. Dingledine and P. Syverson (Eds), Springer LNCS 2482, pp. 54-68, 2002.

A Framework for the Analysis of Mix-Based Steganographic File Systems. Claudia Diaz, Carmela Troncoso and Bart Preneel. In 13th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2008), S. Jajodia, and J. Lopez (Eds), Springer LNCS 5283, pp. 428-445, 2008.

On the Impact of Social Network Profiling on Anonymity.  Claudia Diaz, Carmela Troncoso and Andrei Serjantov. In Proceedings of the 8th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS'08), N. Borisov and I. Goldberg (Eds), Springer LNCS 5134, pp. 44-62, 2008.