# Kévin Huguenin
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I am a professor at [UNIL-HEC Lausanne](https://www.hec.unil.ch/), where I lead the Information Security and Privacy Lab, within the Department of Information Systems. Before I joined UNIL in 2016, I held a tenured researcher position (Chargé de Recherche) at [LAAS-CNRS](https://www.laas.fr/), which I joined in 2015, in the Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance group ([TSF](https://www.laas.fr/public/en/tsf)). Prior to that, I worked as a post-doctoral researcher at [EPFL](https://www.epfl.ch/), in the Laboratory for Communications and Applications ([LCA1](https://lca.epfl.ch/people/lca1)) headed by [Jean-Pierre Hubaux](https://people.epfl.ch/jean-pierre.hubaux), from 2011 to 2014, and at [McGill University](https://www.mcgill.ca/), in the Distributed Information Systems Laboratory ([DISL](https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~kemme/disl/)) headed by [Bettina Kemme](https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~kemme/), in 2011. During my time at EPFL, I worked for some time at the [Nokia Research Center](https://research.nokia.com/).
I earned my PhD degree from the [Université of Rennes](https://www.univ-rennes1.fr/english/) and Inria in 2010 and my master’s degree in computer science from the [Université de Nice — Sophia Antipolis](https://unice.fr/) in 2007. During my PhD, I worked in the Large-Scale Dynamic Distributed System Group ([ASAP](https://www.irisa.fr/asap)) at [IRISA](https://www.irisa.fr/)–[Inria](https://www.inria.fr/en/centre/rennes), under the supervision of [Anne-Marie Kermarrec](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-marie-kermarrec/) (now at EPFL). I did an internship at [Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam](https://www.vu.nl/) and at [Telefonica I&D](https://www.tid.es/) in 2008 and 2009 respectively. I am a former student of [Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Cachan – Antenne de Bretagne](https://www.bretagne.ens-cachan.fr/) (now [ENS Rennes](https://www.ens-rennes.fr/))
I published 15+ articles in international journals and 40+ articles in international conferences and I filed 2 patents with Nokia; I received the Best Student Paper Award at [OPODIS’09](https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10877-8), the Best Paper Award at IEEE [ICDCS’10](https://icdcs2010.cnit.it/) and a scientific excellence award from CNRS. My global research interest is in security and privacy in distributed systems and mobile (social) networks, with a special emphasis on the human and social aspects of security and privacy. I am particularly interested in interdisciplinary research projects on privacy, at the frontier between computer science and social sciences (incl. law and economics) and/or medicine (mHealth, genomics, medical databases).
**Joint Publications**:
Salehzadeh Niksirat, K., Velykoivanenko, L., Zufferey, N., Cherubini, M., Huguenin, K. & Humbert, M. (2024) Wearable Activity Trackers: A Survey on Utility, Privacy, and Security. ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CSUR). Vol. 56, Issue. 7, Article 183 (April 2024), 40 pages. <https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3645091>
Niksirat, K. S., Korka, D., Jacquemin, Q., Vanini, C., Humbert, M., Cherubini, M., … & Huguenin, K. (2024). Security and Privacy with Second-Hand Storage Devices: A User-Centric Perspective from Switzerland. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs), 2024(2), 22.: <https://serval.unil.ch/en/notice/serval:BIB_B69A6B006D03>
Maceiras, M., Salehzadeh Niksirat, K., Bernard, G., Garbinato, B., Cherubini, M., Humbert, M., & Huguenin, K. (2024). Know their Customers: An Empirical Study of Online Account Enumeration Attacks. ACM Transactions on the Web. <https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3664201>
Arianna Boldi, Alessandro Silacci, Marc-Olivier Boldi, Mauro Cherubini, Maurizio Caon, Noé Zufferey, Kévin Huguenin, & Amon Rapp. (2023). Exploring the impact of commercial wearable activity trackers on body awareness and body representations : A mixed-methods study on self-tracking. *Computers in Human Behavior*, 108036. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.108036>
Aliyu, S., Salehzadeh Niksirat, K., Huguenin, K. & Cherubini, M. (2023) On the Extent to which Cyberbullying is Fueled by the Disclosure of Personal Information. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs) 2023 (4) pages 468-483 (July 2023). [DOI: 10.56553/popets-2023-0120](https://doi.org/10.56553/popets-2023-0120)
Salehzadeh Niksirat, K., Korka, D., Harkous, H., Cherubini, M., & Huguenin, K. (2023) On the Potential of Mediation Chatbots for Mitigating Online Multiparty Privacy Conflicts – A Wizard-of-Oz Study. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW1, Article 142 (April 2023), 33 pages. [[BLOG](https://medium.com/acm-cscw/keeping-everyone-in-the-picture-how-chatbots-can-help-mediate-content-sharing-conflict-5a2b1e732931)]. [DOI: 10.1145/3579618](https://doi.org/10.1145/3579618)
M. Humbert, I. D. Dupertuis, M. Cherubini, K. Huguenin. KGP Meter: Communicating Kin Genomic Privacy to the Masses. *In Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), Genoa, Italy, p. 20, Jun 2022.* DOI: [10.1109/EuroSP53844.2022.00033](https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSP53844.2022.00033)
Velykoivanenko, L., Salehzadeh Niksirat, K., Zufferey, N., Humbert, M., Huguenin, K., & Cherubini, M. 2021. Are Those Steps Worth Your Privacy? Fitness-Tracker Users’ Perceptions of Privacy and Utility. *Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) 5, 4, Article 181 (December 2021), 41 pages.* DOI: [10.1145/3494960](https://doi.org/10.1145/3494960)
K. Salehzadeh Niksirat, E. Anthoine-Milhomme, S. Randin, K. Huguenin, and M. Cherubini. 2021. “I thought you were okay”: Participatory Design with Young Adults to Fight Multiparty Privacy Conflicts in Online Social Networks. *In Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021 (DIS ’21)*, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 21 pages. DOI: [10.1145/3461778.3462040](https://doi.org/10.1145/3461778.3462040) [[presentation video](https://youtu.be/cB06xGPhf84)] [[teaser video](https://youtu.be/xbgvhJtAN18)]
M. Cherubini, K. Salehzadeh Niksirat, M-O. Boldi, H. Keopraseuth, J. M. Such, K. Huguenin. 2021. When Forcing Collaboration is the Most Sensible Choice: Desirability of Precautionary and Dissuasive Mechanisms to Manage Multiparty Privacy Conflicts. *Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction*, CSCW edition, 35 pages. DOI: [10.1145/3449127](https://doi.org/10.1145/3449127) [[presentation video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWDbqzi0B-Q&ab_channel=KavousSN)]
A. Meylan, M. Cherubini, B. Chapuis, M. Humbert, I. Bilogrevic, and K. Huguenin. 2020. A Study on the Use of Checksums for Integrity Verification of Web Downloads. *ACM Transasctions on Privacy and Security* (TOPS), 24, 1, Article 4 (September 2020), 36 pages. DOI: [10.1145/3410154](https://doi.org/10.1145/3410154)
B. Chapuis, O. Omolola, M. Cherubini, M. Humbert, K. Huguenin. An Empirical Study of the Use of Integrity Verification Mechanisms for Web Subresources. In *Proc. of the The Web Conference* (WWW’20), Taipei, Taiwan, Apr 2020. DOI:[10.1145/3366423.3380092](https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3366423.3380092)
M. Cherubini, A. Meylan, B. Chapuis, M. Humbert, I. Bilogrevic, K. Huguenin (2018). Towards Usable Checksums: Automating the Integrity Verification of Web Downloads for the Masses. In *Proc. of the 25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security* (CCS’18), Toronto, ON, Canada, Oct 2018. DOI: [10.1145/3243734.3243746](https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3243734.3243746)
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