Josep Domingo-Ferrer is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona. UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy. M. Sc. (1988) and Ph. D. (1991) in Computer Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. M. Sc. in Mathematics. In 2018 he founded CYBERCAT-Center for Cybersecurity Research of Catalonia. ICREA Acadèmia Prize (2008, 2013 and 2018). ACM Distinguished Scientist (2016). Fellow, Institut d'Estudis Catalans (2016). Google Faculty Research Award (2014). "Narcís Monturiol" Medal (2012). Elected Member, Academia Europaea (2012) and International Statistical Institute (2012). Fellow of IEEE (2012). Full CV at http://crises-deim.urv.cat/jdomingo
Josep Domingo Ferrer
ICREA Acadèmia 2008, 2013 & 2018
Universitat Rovira i Virgili · Engineering Sciences
Research interests
His primary research interests are in information security and privacy-enhancing technologies, in particular anonymization and statistical disclosure control. Furthermore, he also works on ethics-by-design cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. His work revolves around technologies to reconcile efficiency, security, privacy, transparency, explainability and other ethical values in the information society. He has co-authored 5 patents and over 454 publications (H-index=61, Nov. 17, 2020). He has chaired 21 international conferences. He is a co-editor-in chief of “Transactions on Data Privacy” and an associate editor of several journals. He has co-ordinated the H2020 project “CLARUS”, the CONSOLIDER “ARES team on security and privacy, the EU FP5 project “CO-ORTHOGONAL”, the “CO-UTILITY” project (Templeton Foundation), as well as several Spanish funded and U.S. funded research projects. He regularly engages in technology transfer to the IT industry.
Keywords
Data security, Data privacy, Cryptography, Official statistics