1. ICREA Acadèmia Award 2023, winner for the fourth consecutive time (2008, 2013, 2018, 2023)
2. PAKDD 2023 Best Paper Award
3. Published novel 'Miratge alemany' in 2018, winning the XXIV 'Valldaura-Memorial Pere Calders' Fiction Prize
4. Published book 'Co-utility: Theory and Applications' in 2017
5. Published technical comment in 'Science' in 2016: 'Technical Comment on “Unique in the shopping mall: on the reidentifiability of credit card metadata”'
6. Published book 'Database Anonymization: Privacy Models, Data Utility, and Microaggregation-based Inter-model Connections' in 2016
7. Contributed to ENISA report 'Privacy by Design in Big Data -- An overview of privacy enhancing technologies in the era of big data analytics' in 2015
8. Contributed to ENISA report 'Privacy and Data Protection by Design - from policy to engineering' in 2015
9. Published book 'Statistical Disclosure Control' in 2012
Research Experience
1. Invited Professor at LAAS-CNRS, CIMI, Université de Toulouse, France, 2025
2. General Co-Chair of 22nd EAI Intl. Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous 2025)
3. Program Co-Chair of WEBIST 2025: 21th International Conf. on Web Information Systems and Technologies
4. Program Co-Chair of 7th ECML PKDD Intl. Workshop on eXplainable Knowledge Discovery in Data Mining and Unlearning
5. General Chair of MDAI 2025: Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence
6. Chairman of Advisory Board, Catalan Data Protection Authority, elected December 17, 2024
7. Program Chair of PSD 2024: Privacy in Statistical Databases
8. ERC Panel Chair of ERC Starting Grant Panel 2024 PE6 Computer Science and Informatics
9. Program Chair of PSD 2022: Privacy in Statistical Databases
10. ERC Panel Chair of ERC Starting Grant Panel 2022 PE6 Computer Science and Informatics
11. Program Chair of PSD 2020: Privacy in Statistical Databases
12. Program Co-Chair of ACM FAT 2020 Fairness Accountability and Transparency Doctoral Consortium
13. Program Chair of ACM WPES 2019: 18th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society
14. Keynote talk at PAKDD 2019
Background
Research interests include data privacy, data mining, and artificial intelligence. Specializes in computer science and informatics.
Miscellany
1. Knight, Ordre des Palmes académiques, France
2. Ranked as Catalonia's second top computer scientist, Spain's 13th, and between France's 18th and 19th
3. Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, June 15, 2023