Marc Juarez
School of Informatics,
University of Edinburgh
Office: IF-4.05A
10 Crichton St
Edinburgh, UK
EH8 9AB
Email: <first>.<last>@ed.ac.uk
I am a Lecturer in Cyber Security and Privacy in the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics. Within the school, I am a member of the Security, Privacy, and Trust group (SecPrivTru). Full bio
News
Co-organizing a workshop on watermarking for GenAI.
Paper accepted at USENIX'25 on VAE-based attacks against Tree-Ring watermarking. Check it out!
We have received GAIL seed funding to work on undetectable watermarks for generative AI.
Paper accepted to SaTML'25 on the (un)fairness of private ML.
We won the PETS student paper award for our work on end-to-end correlation in Nym. Check our our blog post!
I am grateful to receive a 2024 Google Research Scholar Award in Security
New paper on the fair exposure problem under homophily was presented at AAAI'23 by Jakob Schoeffer.
Research
My research topics and a sample of relevant work:
ML-Based Traffic Analysis: the development and evaluation of traffic analysis defenses from both a practical and theoretical point of view.
Security and Privacy of ML: the design of methods to audit privacy and security of ML models, and the development of privacy-aware ML techniques.
Privacy and Fairness: the privacy challenges that arise from identifying and mitigating algorithmic bias.
publications.
Students
- Lisa Lavrentieva (co-supervised with Michio Honda)
- Tobias Cheung (second supervisor)
- Molham Khoja (second supervisor)
I am always interested in hiring talented PhD students whose research interests overlap with mine. Please attach a short research proposal when contacting me.