Regular biography
Jean-Pierre Hubaux is a Professor Emeritus at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), affiliated with the CS department. He serves as the academic director of the EPFL Center for Digital Trust (C4DT). His research interests include Privacy Protection, Information Security, Cybersecurity, Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning, and Data Protection in Personalized Health. He led the Data Protection in Personalised Health (DPPH) project from April 2018 to December 2021. From 2008 to 2019, he was one of the seven commissioners of the Swiss FCC. He is among the most cited researchers in privacy protection and information security. He is also a co-founder of Tune Insight SA.
Scholar-generated biography
Jean-Pierre Hubaux is a professor at EPFL, specializing in Privacy, Security, and Networking. His research focuses on securing vehicular ad hoc networks, GPS-free positioning in mobile ad hoc networks, and self-organized public-key management for mobile ad hoc networks. He explores the security and privacy of smart vehicles, game theory applications in network security, and quantifying location privacy. Hubaux also investigates secure positioning of wireless devices, data-centric trust establishment in ephemeral ad hoc networks, and secure vehicular communication systems. His work emphasizes the design and architecture of secure communication protocols for mobile and vehicular networks.