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Claudia Diaz

Claudia Diaz

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Computer Science

D-Index
33
Citations
6028
World Ranking
12507
National Ranking
115

Overview

Claudia Diaz is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the fields of computer science and medicine, focusing notably on areas such as artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, and signal processing, alongside medical domains including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Their research spans several core topics, including:

  • Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Smart Grid Security and Resilience
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing

Notable recent publications by Claudia Diaz include:

  • Less is More: A privacy-respecting Android malware classifier using federated learning, 2021, published in Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • VerLoc: Verifiable Localization in Decentralized Systems, 2021, published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Mixnet optimization methods, 2022, published in Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • Blending Different Latency Traffic With Beta Mixing, 2024, published in Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Their work has also appeared in other venues such as DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), the Argentinian Journal of Respiratory & Physical Therapy, and Revista Colombiana de Neumología.

Frequent collaborators include Iness Ben Guirat, Lennart Oldenburg, Rafa Gálvez, Veelasha Moonsamy, and Nikita Borisov. These coauthors have worked alongside Claudia Diaz on multiple projects, contributing to areas related to privacy, security, and network protocols.

Claudia Diaz has published chapters in books from Springer Science+Business Media, such as Financial Cryptography and Data Security (2021), which has garnered citations within the academic community.

Their body of work integrates both theoretical and applied research with a focus on privacy-respecting methods, secure network systems, and advancements in malware detection leveraging federated learning approaches.

Best Publications

  • Towards measuring anonymity

    Claudia Díaz;Stefaan Seys;Joris Claessens;Bart Preneel

  • The Web Never Forgets: Persistent Tracking Mechanisms in the Wild

    Gunes Acar;Christian Eubank;Steven Englehardt;Marc Juarez

  • FPDetective: dusting the web for fingerprinters

    Gunes Acar;Marc Juarez;Nick Nikiforakis;Claudia Diaz

  • A Critical Evaluation of Website Fingerprinting Attacks

    Marc Juarez;Sadia Afroz;Gunes Acar;Claudia Diaz

  • Engineering Privacy by Design

    Seda Gürses;Carmela Troncoso;Claudia Diaz

  • Toward an Efficient Website Fingerprinting Defense

    Marc Juarez;Mohsen Imani;Mike Perry;Claudia Diaz

  • A Survey of Anonymous Communication Channels

    George Danezis;Claudia Diaz

  • Unraveling an old cloak: k-anonymity for location privacy

    Reza Shokri;Carmela Troncoso;Claudia Diaz;Julien Freudiger

  • Privacy-enabling social networking over untrusted networks

    Jonathan Anderson;Claudia Diaz;Joseph Bonneau;Frank Stajano

  • Taxonomy of Mixes and Dummy Traffic

    Claudia Diaz;Bart Preneel

  • OB-PWS: Obfuscation-Based Private Web Search

    E. Balsa;C. Troncoso;C. Diaz

  • A Survey on Routing in Anonymous Communication Protocols

    Fatemeh Shirazi;Milivoj Simeonovski;Muhammad Rizwan Asghar;Michael Backes

  • Computer Security – ESORICS 2011

    Vijay Atluri;Claudia Diaz

  • Two Tales of Privacy in Online Social Networks

    Seda Gurses;Claudia Diaz

  • Drac: an architecture for anonymous low-volume communications

    George Danezis;Claudia Diaz;Carmela Troncoso;Ben Laurie

  • Encrypted DNS –> Privacy? A Traffic Analysis Perspective

    Sandra Siby;Marc Juarez;Claudia Diaz;Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez

  • Two-sided statistical disclosure attack

    George Danezis;Claudia Diaz;Carmela Troncoso

  • Reasoning about the anonymity provided by pool mixes that generate dummy traffic

    Claudia Diaz;Bart Preneel

  • Inside Job: Applying Traffic Analysis to Measure Tor from Within

    Rob Jansen;Marc Juarez;Rafael Galvez;Tariq Elahi

  • On the Impact of Social Network Profiling on Anonymity

    Claudia Diaz;Carmela Troncoso;Andrei Serjantov

Frequent Co-Authors

George Danezis
George Danezis University College London
Bart Preneel
Bart Preneel KU Leuven
Markulf Kohlweiss
Markulf Kohlweiss University of Edinburgh
Mohsen Imani
Mohsen Imani University of California, San Diego
Alessandro Acquisti
Alessandro Acquisti Carnegie Mellon University
Sebastian Faust
Sebastian Faust Technical University of Darmstadt
Paul Syverson
Paul Syverson United States Naval Research Laboratory
Claude Castelluccia
Claude Castelluccia French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

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