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Profiles: UNIL, Huguenin:Kévin, 0000-0001-7147-1828, ELQ9ms8AAAAJ, kevin-huguenin, khuguenin
Biography
I am a professor at UNIL-HEC Lausanne, where I lead the Information Security and Privacy Lab, within the Department of Information Systems. Before I joined UNIL in 2016, I held a tenured researcher position (Chargé de Recherche) at LAAS-CNRS, which I joined in 2015, in the Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance group (TSF). Prior to that, I worked as a post-doctoral researcher at EPFL, in the Laboratory for Communications and Applications (LCA1) headed by Jean-Pierre Hubaux, from 2011 to 2014, and at McGill University, in the Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (DISL) headed by Bettina Kemme, in 2011. During my time at EPFL, I worked for some time at the Nokia Research Center.
I earned my PhD degree from the Université of Rennes and Inria in 2010 and my master’s degree in computer science from the Université de Nice — Sophia Antipolis in 2007. During my PhD, I worked in the Large-Scale Dynamic Distributed System Group (ASAP) at IRISA–Inria, under the supervision of Anne-Marie Kermarrec (now at EPFL). I did an internship at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and at Telefonica I&D in 2008 and 2009 respectively. I am a former student of Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Cachan – Antenne de Bretagne (now ENS Rennes)
I published 15+ articles in international journals and 40+ articles in international conferences and I filed 2 patents with Nokia; I received the Best Student Paper Award at OPODIS’09, the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICDCS’10 and a scientific excellence award from CNRS. My global research interest is in security and privacy in distributed systems and mobile (social) networks, with a special emphasis on the human and social aspects of security and privacy. I am particularly interested in interdisciplinary research projects on privacy, at the frontier between computer science and social sciences (incl. law and economics) and/or medicine (mHealth, genomics, medical databases).
Service
Program committee member, TheWebConf ‘2017 ‘2026, PoPETS ‘2018 ‘2019 ‘2020 ‘2022, EuroUSEC ‘2020 ‘2021 ‘2024 ‘2025, WEIS ‘2020 ‘2021 ‘2022, USENIX Security ‘2025 ‘2026.
Ethical committee member, CER-HEC (2017-2022), CER-UNIL (since 2020, deputy president since 2025), CER-VD (since 2022)
Professional course
Full Professor, Information Security and Privacy Lab, UNIL-HEC Lausanne, Aug. 2020 – present
Visiting Researcher – Scientific leave, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), Concordia University, Aug. 2023 – Jan. 2024
Assistant Professor, Information Security and Privacy Lab, UNIL-HEC Lausanne, Nov. 2016 – Jul. 2020
Researcher (Chargé de Recherche), Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance group, LAAS-CNRS, Dec. 2014 – Oct. 2016
Visiting Researcher (Hôte Académique), Laboratory for Communications and Applications 1, EPFL, Dec. 2014 – Apr. 2015
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Laboratory for Communications and Applications 1, EPFL, Oct. 2011 – Nov. 2014
Collaborator, Nokia Research Center Lausanne (50% of my time), Jan. 2012 – Oct. 2012
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Distributed Information System Laboratory (DISL), McGill University, Mar. 2011 – Aug. 2011
Intern, Internet Group, Telefonica I&D, 2009 (3 months)
Intern, Distributed Programming Laboratory (LPD), EPFL, 2008 (2 months)
Intern, Distributed Systems Group, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2008 (1 month)
Research assistant, Large-Scale Dynamic Distributed Systems Group (ASAP), IRISA-Inria, Sep. 2007 – Feb. 2011
Education
PhD, Computer Science, supervised by Anne-Marie Kermarrec, IRISA-Inria / University of Rennes, 2007-2010
ENS Diploma, Computer Science, ENS Rennes (France), 2004-2007
MSc, Network and Distributed Systems, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France), 2006-2007
MSc, Signal Processing and Digital Communications., University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France), 2006-2007
BSc, Computer Science, University of Rennes (France) – ERASMUS Semester at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 2004-2006