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
Paper accepted at USENIX'25 on VAE-based attacks against Tree-Ring watermarking. Check it out!
New paper to appear in the proceedings of Autonomous Cyber (ESORICS). This work is based on Melanie Meijer's MSc dissertation which received the Claire Jones Award
Co-organizing a workshop on watermarking for GenAI.
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 received 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 recent works:
ML-Based Traffic Analysis: Development and evaluation of traffic analysis defenses for network security applications, particularly in the context of web traffic.
Security and Privacy of ML Systems: Auditing privacy and security properties of ML models and developing techniques for secure and private deployment of ML systems.
Privacy and Fairness in ML Systems: Addressing privacy challenges in detecting and mitigating bias in ML models.
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.