From Zoos to Safaris – From Closed-World Enforcement to Open-World Assessment of Privacy
Michael Backes, Pascal Berrang, Praveen Manoharan
In Foundations of Security Analysis and Design VIII, 2016
CV
Dr Pascal Berrang is a Lecturer for the School of Computer Science, at the University of Birmingham. His research interests are in the field of IT Security & Privacy with a focus on Health Data, Blockchain Technology, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning.
Education
- Dr.-Ing. (PhD) in Computer Science, Saarland University, 2014–2018, Grade: summa cum laude
Quantifying and Mitigating Privacy Risks in Biomedical Data - Preparatory Phase, Graduate School, Saarland University, 2013–2014
- B.S. in Computer Science, Saarland University, 2010–2013, Grade: A (1.1)
Work experience
- Oct 2020–present: Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Birmingham
- Jun 2017–present: Freelance Researcher & Consultant
- Jun 2014–Mar 2018: Research Assistant, CISPA
Awards / Honors
- 2019: Dr. Eduard Martin-Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in the category of mathematics and computer science, Saarland University.
- 2019: Distinguished Paper Award for our paper MBeacon: Privacy-Preserving Beacons for DNA Methylation Data, Network and Distributed Security Symposium (NDSS’19).
- 2019: Nomination: Deutscher Studienpreis, one out of 10 nominees for the excellent thesis award, Körber Stiftung.
- 2019: Nomination: GI-Dissertationspreis, one out of 28 nominees for the excellent thesis award, German Informatics Society.
- 2013: Graduate Scholarship, Saarland University.
- 2012: Deutschlandstipendium, Germany Scholarship.
- 2011: Saarland Scholarship, Studienstiftung Saar.
Publications
Membership Privacy in MicroRNA-based Studies
Michael Backes, Pascal Berrang, Mathias Humbert, Praveen Manoharan
In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS), 2016Privacy in Epigenetics: Temporal Linkability of MicroRNA Expression Profiles
Michael Backes, Pascal Berrang, Anne Hecksteden, Mathias Humbert, Andreas Keller, Tim Meyer
In Proceedings of the 25th USENIX Security Symposium (Security), 2016Profile Linkability despite Anonymity in Social Media Systems
Michael Backes, Pascal Berrang, Oana Goga, Krishna Gummadi, Praveen Manoharan
In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), 2016Simulating the Large-scale Erosion of Genomic Privacy Over Time
Michael Backes, Pascal Berrang, Mathias Humbert, Xiaoyu Shen, Verena Wolf
In 3rd International Workshop on Genome Privacy and Security (GenoPri), Selected for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2016Identifying Personal DNA Methylation Profiles by Genotype Inference
Michael Backes, Pascal Berrang, Matthias Bieg, Roland Eils, Carl Herrmann, Mathias Humbert, Irina Lehmann
In Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2017Dissecting Privacy Risks in Biomedical Data
Pascal Berrang, Mathias Humbert, Yang Zhang, Irina Lehmann, Roland Eils, Michael Backes
In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2018Privacy-Preserving Similar Patient Queries for Combined Biomedical Data
Ahmed Salem, Pascal Berrang, Mathias Humbert, Michael Backes
In PoPETs, 2019
Teaching
Foundations of Cybersecurity
In Saarland University, 2015
Theory of Modern Privacy Research
In Saarland University, 2016