Received best paper awards at the 2020 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), USENIX Security'19, ACM IMC'18, ACM HotMiddlebox'15, and ACM CoNEXT'14; selected as an ACM Senior Member in 2021; received the medal to 'Young Investigators' awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain in 2023; recipient of the AEPD Emilio Aced Award (2019, 2020, and 2021), CNIL-INRIA Privacy Protection Award (2019 and 2021), Caspar Bowden PETS Award (2020), and IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Award; received industry grants such as the 2018 Google Faculty Research Awards, DataTransparencyLab Grant in 2016, and Qualcomm's Innovation Fellowship in 2012.
Research Experience
Formerly a Research Staff at International Computer Science Institute (ICSI); worked at Vodafone R&D, T-labs Berlin, and Telefonica Research; joined IMDEA Networks in October 2016.
Education
PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, supervised by Prof. Jon Crowcroft
Background
Research interests: IoT, network measurements, privacy and security. Currently a Research Associate Professor at IMDEA Networks, leading the Internet Analytics Group. Co-founder of AppCensus, a US-based startup focused on analyzing the privacy risks of mobile applications at scale.
Miscellany
His research findings have been covered by international media outlets like The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, and others.