Carmela Troncoso Explained

Carmela Troncoso
Birth Place:Vigo
Citizenship:Spain
Known For:DP-3T protocol
Boards:Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force
Spouse:Rebekah Overdorf
Awards:Google Security and Privacy Research Award
Fortune's 40und40
ERCIM WG STM Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (2011)
CNIL-INRIA Privacy Protection Award 2017
Website:https://www.epfl.ch/labs/spring/
Alma Mater:University of Vigo
KU Leuven
Discipline:Software engineering
Sub Discipline:Computer security
Machine learning
Workplaces:École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Main Interests:Machine learning
Privacy evaluation
Engineering privacy-preserving systems

Carmela González Troncoso (born 1982 in Vigo) is a Spanish telecommunication engineer and researcher specialized in privacy issues, and an LGBT+ activist. She is currently a tenure track assistant professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and the head of the SPRING lab (Security and Privacy Engineering Laboratory).[1] [2] Troncoso gained recognition for her leadership of the European team developing the DP-3T protocol that aims at the creation of an application to facilitate the tracing of COVID-19 infected persons without compromising on the privacy of citizens.[3] [4] [5] Currently she is also member of the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force in the expert group on Digital Epidemiology.[6] In 2020, she was listed among Fortune magazine's 40 Under 40.

Career

Troncoso studied engineering at University of Vigo and in 2006 graduated in telecommunication engineering. She went to KU Leuven to work on her PhD on "Design and analysis methods for privacy technologies" under the supervision of Bart Preneel and Claudia Díaz.[7] [8] [9] She continued at KU Leuven as a post-doc before joining Gradiant, the Galician Research and Development Center in Advanced Telecommunications, as a Security and Privacy Technical Lead. In October 2015 Troncoso joined the IMDEA Software Institute (Spain) as faculty member.[10] Since November 2017 she has been a tenure track assistant professor at the SPRING lab (Security and Privacy Engineering Laboratory) at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences[11] at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.

Research

Troncoso's research focuses on technologies enabling the development of socially responsible systems such as machine learning, privacy evaluation and privacy-preserving systems:

Based on her research, and together with International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) Troncoso developed the opensource collaborative data analysis tool Datashare.[12] [13] Datashare was used in the analysis of the Luanda Leaks.[14] [15]

Covid-19 pandemic

In 2020, during the crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic, she leads a team of more than 30 people from eleven European institutions working to develop the DP-3T protocol under the umbrella of the Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) to create a computer application that tracks contacts and at the same time respects privacy with the aim of letting citizens know if they have been close to someone who days later tests positive for the virus.[16] She is first author of white paper on the application of the DP-3T protocol.[17] Google stated that it took inspiration from the DP-3T protocol.

Through her work the DP-3T protocol and on the SwissCovid app system during the Covid-19 Troncoso was featured in several Swiss and international news outlets.[18] [19] [20] [21] [22] As an expert of the topic she also appeared on a number of panels and events such as the IMPACT2020 conference and the International Committee of the Red Cross' release of Data Protection Handbook for Humanitarian Action.[23] [24] [25] [26]

Distinctions

In September 2020, Troncoso joined the ranks of "40 influential people" (40 Under 40) in the category technology nominated by the Fortune magazine.[27]

Since 2020 Troncoso has been a member of the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force, the scientific corona advisory board of the Swiss Federal Council and the cantons. She is a member of the expert group on Digital Epidemiology.[28]

She is an awardee of the ERCIM WG STM Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (2011),[29] the CNIL-INRIA Privacy Protection Award 2017 (Paper: Engineering privacy by design reloaded)[30] and the Google Security and Privacy Research Award (2019).[31]

Selected works

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: 10 June 2017. Dr Carmela Troncoso named Tenure Track Assistant Professor. EPFL News. 11 June 2020.
  2. Web site: The lab. 2020-08-21. www.epfl.ch. en-US.
  3. News: First pilot for the Google and Apple-based decentralised tracing app. Swiss Science Today. 11 June 2020.
  4. News: 2020-05-07. European coalition takes shape on coronavirus contact tracing. en. Reuters. 2020-08-13.
  5. Web site: Farr. Christina. 2020-04-28. How a handful of Apple and Google employees came together to help health officials trace coronavirus. 2020-08-21. CNBC. en.
  6. Web site: ncs-tf.ch: Topics & Expert groups. 2020-08-21. ncs-tf.ch.
  7. Web site: Troncos. Carmela. Design and analysis methods for privacy technologies. 2020-08-21.
  8. Web site: Carmela Troncoso's HomePage. 2020-08-12. carmelatroncoso.com.
  9. Web site: Former members COSIC. 2020-08-12. nl.
  10. Web site: Carmela Troncoso - IMDEA Software Institute. 2020-08-12. software.imdea.org.
  11. Web site: School of Computer and Communication Sciences. 2020-08-21. www.epfl.ch. en-GB.
  12. Web site: Datashare - ICIJ. 2020-08-21. datashare.icij.org. en.
  13. Web site: 2020-08-17. 'Trust and technology' at heart of latest collaborative journalism tool. 2020-08-21. ICIJ. en-US.
  14. News: Luanda Leaks Africa's richest woman exploited family ties, shell companies and inside deals. en-US. ICIJ. 2020-08-21.
  15. Web site: How we mined more than 715,000 Luanda Leaks records. 2020-08-21. ICIJ. 3 February 2020. en-US.
  16. Web site: HOME PEPP-PT. 2020-08-12. Pepp Pt. de. 2020-04-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20200409221119/https://www.pepp-pt.org/. dead.
  17. Web site: Troncoso. Carmela. Payer. Mathias. Hubaux. Jean-Pierre. Salathé. Marcel. Marcel Salathé. Larus. James. Bugnion. Edouard. Lueks. Wouter. Stadler. Theresa. Pyrgelis. Apostolos. Antonioli. Daniele. Barman. Ludovic. 29. May 24, 2020 . Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing . GitHub. 2005.12273. Michael. Seda. Veale. Michael. Cremers. Cas. Backes. Binns. Tippenhauer. Nils Ole. Aysajan. Reuben. Cattuto. Ciro. Barrat. Alain. Gürses. Smart. Abidin. Beutel. Chatel. Sylvain. Paterson. Kenneth. Čapkun. Srdjan. David. Jan. Nigel. Jackson. Dennis. Roeschlin. Marc. Leu. Patrick. Preneel. Bart. Basin.
  18. Web site: MacNamee. Sara Ibrahim, Terence. Switzerland launches SwissCovid tracing app for residents. 2020-08-12. SWI swissinfo.ch. 25 June 2020 . en.
  19. Web site: Colomé. Jordi Pérez. 2020-04-15. La ingeniera española que lidera la 'app' europea de rastreo de contagios: "No será un estado de vigilancia". 2020-08-12. EL PAÍS. es.
  20. Web site: EU privacy experts push a decentralized approach to COVID-19 contacts tracing. 2020-08-12. TechCrunch. 6 April 2020 . en-US.
  21. Web site: Romero. por Sergio Muñoz. 2020-08-21. Privacidad y rastreo en la pandemia: la experta Carmela Troncoso explica por qué tu móvil puede ser (por ahora) la mejor vacuna. 2020-08-21. mujerhoy. es.
  22. Web site: 2020-06-25. Doublement protégé - Portrait Migros Magazine. 2020-08-20. Migros Medien. fr.
  23. Web site: Pandemic - Responsible Data Summit 2020. 2020-08-21. responsibledata.ai.
  24. Web site: 2020-04-16. ImPACT 2020: PACT Project Holds First Collaborative, Virtual Workshop to Tackle Key Technical Issues in Private Automated Contact Tracing. 2020-08-21. Internet Policy Research Initiative at MIT. en-US.
  25. Web site: 2020-05-14. s-212 Panel Discussion on Contact Tracing at Eurocrypt 2020. YouTube. 2020-08-21.
  26. Web site: 2020-05-26. Data Protection in the Time of COVID-19. 2020-08-21. International Committee of the Red Cross. en.
  27. Web site: Carmela Troncoso 2020 40 under 40 in Tech. 2020-09-16. Fortune. en.
  28. Web site: ncs-tf.ch: Organisation. 2020-09-14. ncs-tf.ch.
  29. Web site: ERCIM Working group. 2020-08-12. www.iit.cnr.it.
  30. Web site: Inria and the CNIL award the 2017 privacy protection prize to a European research team CNIL. 2020-08-12. www.cnil.fr.
  31. Web site: Luterbacher. Celia. February 22, 2019 . Carmela Troncoso wins Google Security and Privacy Research Award. en . April 19, 2021.

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