Section: Dissemination

Teaching - Supervision - Juries

Teaching

• Master : Frank D. Valencia has been teaching the undergraduate course "Computability", 45 hours, at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia. July 27 - Nov 1, 2017.

• Master : Frank D. Valencia has been teaching the masters course "Foundations of Computer Science", 45 hours, at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia. Jan 27 - Jun 1, 2017.

• Master: Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis and Catuscia Palamidessi have been teaching a course on the Foundations of Privacy at the MPRI, the Master Parisien pour la Recherche en Informatique. University of Paris VII. A.Y. 2016-17 and 2017-18. Total for each semester: 24 hours plus 6 hours for the exam and the exercise session is preparation to the exam.

Supervision

• PhD in progress (2017-) Marco Romanelli. Co-supervised by Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis, Catuscia Palamidessi, and Moreno Falaschi (University of Siena, Italy). Thesis subject: Application of Information Flow to feature selection in machine learning.

• PhD in progress (2017-) Anna Pazii. Co-supervised by Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis and Catuscia Palamidessi. Thesis subject: Local Differential Privacy.

• PhD in progress (2016-) Tymofii Prokopenko. Ecole Polytechnique and ENS Cachan. Grant Digiteo-Digicosme. Co-supervised by Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis, Catuscia Palamidessi, and Serge Haddad (ENS Cachan).

• PhD in progress (2017-) Sergio Ramirez. Co-supervised by Frank Valencia and Camilo Rueda, Universidad Javeriana Cali. Thesis subject: Quantitive Spatial Constraint Systems.

• PhD terminated (2015-17) Joris Lamare. Ecole Polytechnique. Grant MSR Center. Co-supervised by Catuscia Palamidessi and Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis. Joris has stopped his PhD due to personal reasons.

• PhD completed (2014-17) Michel Guzman. Titile: On the Expressiveness of Spatial Constraint Systems [11]. Ecole Polytechnique. Grant Inria CORDI-S. Co-supervised by Catuscia Palamidessi and Frank D. Valencia.

Juries

Catuscia Palamidessi has been reviewer and member of the board at the PhD defense for the thesis of the following PhD student:

• Nicolas Bonifas (Ecole Polytechnique, France). Member of the committee board at the PhD defense. Title of the thesis: Geometric and Dual Approaches to Cumulative Scheduling. Supervised by Philippe Baptiste. Defended in December 2017.

• Maggie Mhanna (CentraleSupelec, France). Member of the committee board at the PhD defense. Supervised by Pablo Piantanida. Defended in January 2017.

Other didactical duties

Catuscia Palamidessi is:

• Member of the advising committee for Hamid Ebadi, PhD student supervised by David Sands, Chalmers University, Sweden, since 2014. Also reviewer and member of the committee for the half-way thesis defense (Licentiate) that took place in June 2015.

• External member of the scientific council for the PhD in Computer Science at the University of Pisa, Italy. Since 2012.

• Member of the advising committee for the PhD of Jun Wang (PhD student supervised by Qiang Tang and Peter Ryan), University of Luxembourg. Since December 2014.

• Member of the advising committee for the PhD of Andrea Margheri (PhD student supervised by Rosario Pugliese), University of Florence, Italy. 2014-16.

Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis and Catuscia Palamidessi have designed, and coordinate, a course on the Foundations of Privacy at the MPRI, the Master Parisien pour la Recherche en Informatique. University of Paris VII. A.Y. Since 2015.