Marc Juarez is a Lecturer in Cyber Security and Privacy at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics. Before joining the University of Edinburgh, Marc was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Computer Science Department of the University of Southern California. Marc obtained his PhD from the KU Leuven, under an FWO PhD fellowship. At the KU Leuven, he worked in the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) group. His thesis was a runner-up for the 2020 ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award.

• ML-Based Traffic Analysis: the development and evaluation of 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; the development of privacy-aware ML.
• Privacy and Fairness: the study of disparate privacy risks across demographics; the privacy challenges that arise from identifying and mitigating algorithmic bias.

• PhD in Engineering Science: Electrical Engineering, 2019. KU Leuven

• Double degree in Mathematics (BA) and Computer Engineering (BA + MSc), 2013. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona