Athina Markopoulou, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

University of California, Irvine

Presentation Title:

Mobile Data and Privacy

Abstract:

Data collected from mobile and IoT devices can enable novel applications but also pose significant privacy and security threats. In this talk, Athina Markopoulou will first describe research highlights from our group on mobile network monitoring and mobile data analytics, with emphasis on privacy leaks, ad blocking, and user tracking. Then, she will provide an overview of privacy-preserving techniques for mobile data crowdsourcing.

Bio:

Athina Markopoulou is an Associate Professor in EECS at the University of California, Irvine. She received the Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1996, and the Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, in 1998 and 2003 respectively. She has held short-term/visiting appointments at Sprintlabs (2003), Arista Networks (2005), IT University of Copenhagen (2012-2013), and she co-founded Shoelace Wireless (2012+). She received the NSF CAREER Award (2008), the Henry Samueli School of Engineering Faculty Midcareer Award for Research (2014), the OCEC Educator award (2017), and the Andreas Pfitzmann best student paper award (in PETS 2018). She has been an Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2013-2015), an Associate Editor for ACM CCR (2016), the General Co-Chair for ACM CoNEXT 2016, and the Director of the Networked Systems program at UCI. Her research interests are in the broad area of networking including mobile systems and mobile data analytics, network measurement social networks, network security and privacy.