Patricia Guerra-Balboa

Patricia Guerra-Balboa

PhD Student at KIT

About me

Hi! I’m a PhD student at the Privacy & Security Chair at KIT, in Germany. My background is in Mathematics. My current research interests lie in privacy-preserving data analysis, with a strong focus on Differential Privacy and location data. I do not only like doing research, but also talking about it to both scientific and general audiences.

Current Job

KIT Chair of IT Security I'm a PhD student at the Chair of IT Security at KIT under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Thorsten Strufe. Our research group is engaged in the development and analysis of security and privacy concepts that protect from all types of potential attackers in the digital world. We are part of the KASTEL, as well as the excellence cluster CeTI.

News

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Presenting our paper: Balancing Privacy and Utility in Correlated Data: A Study of Bayesian Differential Privacy at VLDB25 in London!
51st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
📍 London, United Kingdom ⏰ September 2025 Slides Poster
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Our Master thesis student Martin Lange awarded with the ‘Preis für den besten Studienabschluss 2024/2025’
by KIT Informatics department
📍 Karlsruhe, Germany ⏰ August 2025 Thesis
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Participation in the Dagstuhl Seminar 25112 PETs and AI: Privacy Washing and the Need for a PETs Evaluation Framework
Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (LZI)
📍 Wadern, Germany ⏰ March 2025 Final Report
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Invited Speaker to Peregrinando: International carrers in mathematics and physics workshop
Centro de Investigación e Tecnoloxía Matemática de Galicia (CITMAga) and Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE)
📍 Santiago de Compostela, Spain ⏰ December 2023 Slides
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Audience Award & Silver Medal at FameLab Regional Competition
FameLab Regional Heat
📍 Karlsruhe, Germany ⏰ April 2024 Youtube Video
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Best Poster Award 2023
Community Congress by Startupsecure
📍 Karlsruhe, Germany ⏰ May 2023

Miscellanea

🏆 Awards

  • Silver medal and Audience Award in the FameLab Germany 2024 regional heat
  • Best Poster Award 2023 at Community Congress by StartUpSecure
  • "Mellores expedientes" (Best records) Award by University of Santiago de Compostela

🧑‍💻 Reviewer for

  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE TIFS)
  • ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communication Security (ASIACCS)
  • European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS)

🌎 Collaborations & Research Stays

Contact

I am always happy to discuss the possibility of new collaborations and research ideas.

  • mail patricia.balboa at kit.edu