Event Category: PhD Defense

PhD thesis defense: Analysis of quality and transparency in the online advertising ecosystem

This thesis investigates transparency, fairness, and data accuracy in the online advertising ecosystem through large-scale analysis of data from hundreds...

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PhD Thesis defense: Understanding Interconnected Abuse in Consumer Smart Device Ecosystems

Modern consumer smart ecosystems—comprising of mobile and IoT devices, platforms, apps, third-party SDKs, and cloud services—enable pervasive automation and personalization...

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PhD Thesis defense: Positioning Systems and the Challenges of Security & Privacy for Real-World Wireless Networks Deployments

This thesis investigates the performance of positioning systems in Wi-Fi and 5G networks using a single node, such as a...

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PhD Thesis defense: Understanding Societal Phenomena and Network Operations with Mobile Metadata

Mobile networks are central to modern digital life, generating vast amounts of metadata that offer valuable insights into human behavior,...

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PhD Thesis defense: Security-Enhanced and Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning

This thesis addresses two critical challenges in Federated Learning (FL): enhancing Byzantine robustness to thwart poisoning attacks and advancing privacy-preserving...

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PhD Thesis defense: Data-Driven Exploration of Sociological Patterns in Mobile Network Traffic Demands

This thesis explores the use of mobile network metadata to analyze human sociological behavior and activity patterns. Specifically, it investigates...

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PhD Thesis defense: NLP-Driven Approaches to Measuring Online Polarization and Radicalization

Social media has become a central battleground for political and ideological debates, influencing real-world conflicts and crises. However, traditional methods...

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PhD Thesis defense: From Low-Cost Spectrum Monitoring to 5G Networks: Algorithms and Systems for Localizing and Identifying Wireless Transmissions

Electromagnetic Radiation is the effect that Electromagnetic fields can exert at a distance from their source. Depending on the frequency...

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PhD Thesis defense: Efficient 5G Mobile Network Management: Network Slicing and Global Roaming Optimization

The rapid transformation of mobile network infrastructures from hardware-based systems to software-defined networks (SDNs) has introduced several novel paradigms that...

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PhD Thesis defense: User Empowerment in Adaptive Video Streaming over Best-Effort Networks

Video streaming is not only the largest source of Internet traffic but also one of the most economically significant industries,...

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