News

• Our IEEE CSF 2012 paper “Measuring Information Leakage Using Generalized Gain Functions” won a Test-of-Time Award at the 37th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (IEEE CSF 2024).
  
  
• I am back at UFMG from a sabbatical year in 2023 as a visiting researcher/engineer to Inria Saclay, France, to collaborate with the team of Prof. Catuscia Palamidessi.
  
  
• Our research has been used to evaluate privacy in the microdata of the official Brazilian Educational Censuses and is being used by INEP (the Official Brazilian Institute for Educational Studies and Research) to review their data-publishing policies. (A scientific paper on our methodology and main findings has been published in English at PETs.) The project has been renewed for the year 2024.
  
  
• Our paper “On the Duality of Privacy and Fairness (Extended Abstract)”, with M.Sc. graduates Bruno D. Nogueira and Thiago V. A. Silva, has been awarded the best paper prize at the International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy (CADE 2023).
  
  
• Our Ph.D. candidate Gabriel Henrique Nunes, in co-tutelle with Prof. Annabelle McIver from Macquarie University, is one of the recipients of the 9th Google Latin America Research Awards (2022), with the project “A QIF-Based Robust and Explainable Framework for Assessing Privacy Risks of Large Data Releases”.
  
  
• Our Topete research group is active!
  
  
• Our book “The Science of Quantitative Information Flow” has been published!
  
  

Science communication

• Some science-related stuff that I find cool can be found here.
  
  
• Some of my talks for science communication (in Portuguese):
  • Quando criptografia não garante segurança (When cryptography is not enough to ensure security), Summer School in Computer Science, DCC-UFMG.
  • Uma abordagem Bayesiana sobre o método científico e a navalha de Occam (A Bayesian interpretation of the scientific method and of Occam’s razor), Summer School in Computer Science, DCC-UFMG.
  • O que é “teoria” em ciência da computação? (What’s “theory” in computer science?), Introduction to Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Data Science, and Information Systems.