Teaching

Experience with teaching and student supervision.

  • Adjunct Professor. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
Academic year 2020-21 (6+6 ECTS)
Privacy course (M1.771) of the Cyber Security and Privacy Master Program


  • Teaching Assistant. KU Leuven.
Academic years 2016-19
Privacy Enhancing Technologies (B-KUL-H09L2A) course of the Master of Electrical Engineering Program


  • Teaching Assistant. KU Leuven.
Academic years 2014-19
Privacy and Big Data (B-KUL-H00Y2A) course of the Master of Artificial Intelligence Program

Student Supervision

I co-supervised the following projects:

  • Is Tor under a tag? Detecting Tagging Attacks in Tor
Fan Yang (KU Leuven MAI)
2018-19
Promotor: Prof. Claudia Diaz
Daily supervisors: Marc Juarez, Rafael Galvez and Tomer Ashur


  • Fingerprinting Mobile Applications with Deep Learning
Albert Pou (ERASMUS, KU Leuven and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
2018-19
Promotor: Prof. Bart Preneel
Daily supervisors: Marc Juarez and Bekah Overdorf


  • Learning from a black-box
Sebastiaan Jamaer (KU Leuven CS)
2018-19
Promotor: Prof. Nigel Smart
Daily supervisors: Dragos Rotaru and Marc Juarez


  • Email tracking: A study on its prevalence and the design of countermeasures
2017-18
Shirin Kalantari (KU Leuven CS)
Promotor: Prof. Claudia Diaz
Daily supervisors: Marc Juarez and Tom Van Goethem


  • Measuring the Prevalence of Browser Fingerprinting Within Browser Extensions
Danica Reardon (KU Leuven MAI)
2017-18
Promotor: Prof. Bart Preneel
Daily supervisors: Iraklis Symeonidis and Marc Juarez


  • Leveraging collaborative security to thwart cross-site attack
Seppe Duwe (KU Leuven CS)
2017-18
Promotor: Prof. Wouter Joosen
Daily supervisors: Tom Van Goethem and Marc Juarez


  • Smartphone Fingerprinting Via Motion Sensors
Amogh Pradeep (Summer Intern in COSIC)
2016-17
Promotor: Prof. Claudia Diaz
Daily supervisors: Gunes Acar and Marc Juarez


  • Deep Learning Website Fingerprinting
Vera Rimmer (KU Leuven MAI)
2016-17
Promotor: Prof. Claudia Diaz
Daily supervisors: Ero Balsa and Marc Juarez


  • Investigating Tor’s Resilience using Shadow
Samantha Wojtowicz (KU Leuven and Group T)
2015-16
Promotor: Prof. Luc Vandeurzen
Daily supervisors: Fatemeh Shirazi and Marc Juarez


  • Automatic Detection of Device Fingerprinting
Nidia Ximena Robles Aguilar (KU Leuven MAI)
2014-15
Promotor: Prof. Claudia Diaz
Daily supervisors: Gunes Acar and Marc Juarez

Teaching Materials

I authored the following teaching materials:

  • Algorithmic Bias (PID_00278565)
Marc Juarez
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2020


  • Privacy Attacks Against Internet Users (PID_00275712)
Marc Juarez and Enric Luján Carbonell
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2020


  • Privacy-preserving communication protocols (PID_00274683)
Marc Juarez
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2020

Guest Lectures

  • An Overview of Fingerprinting Techniques in the Web
30219D – CSCI631 Privacy in the World of Big Data
University of Southern California
Department of Computer Science
Los Angeles, USA
Nov, 2021


  • Is Website Fingerprinting Actually Practical?
Keynote at the Data Privacy Management Workshop (DPM)
Virtual
Sept, 2020


  • Fingerprinting Techniques in the Web
30219D – CSCI631 Privacy in the World of Big Data
University of Southern California
Department of Computer Science
Los Angeles, USA
Nov, 2019


  • Machine Learning and Security
Brussels School of Competition (BSC)
Brussels, Belgium
May, 2019


  • Introduction to Machine Learning
International Committee of the Red Cross
Brussels, Belgium
Apr, 2019


  • Traffic Analysis
Lecutre in the KU Leuven's Privacy Enhancing Technologies course.
Leuven, Belgium
Oct, 2018


  • Website Fingerprinting Attacks and Defenses
TU Wien's Privacy Enhancing Technologies' course
Vienna, Austria
Dec, 2017


  • Privacy Enhancing Techniques
2016 Secure Application Development (SecAppDev) course
Leuven, Belgium
Mar, 2016