People

ILLS associate member

Sébastien Gambs

Professor

  • Institution country: CanadaUniversité du Québec à Montréal

Biography

Sébastien Gambs studies what can be inferred about a person from the digital traces they leave. Location records, for example, can reveal someone’s habits or identity even after names are removed. His work examines these inference attacks, develops ways to protect sensitive data and explores how privacy and fairness interact in machine learning.

Research topics

  • Location privacy
  • Inference attacks
  • Privacy and fairness