Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis is a senior data privacy research scientist at the IBM Watson Health lab in Cambridge, MA, where he is responsible for the design of data de-identification methods and technologies for protecting sensitive medical information under privacy and utility guarantees. At the same time (since 2015), he serves as the leader of the European Big Data Value Association (BDVA) Activity Group on data protection and pseudonymization technology. Prior to his current position at IBM, he worked as a research scientist in the Smarter Cities Technology Centre of IBM Research in Ireland, leading the data privacy research direction of the lab. In that position, he received three Invention Achievement Awards (Plateaus) from IBM, was designated as an IBM Master Inventor (2015-2017), and was recognized in the 2014 Manager’s Choice Award. He also serves (since 2012) as the Security & Privacy Co-Chair of IBM Research worldwide. Aris holds a diploma degree in computer science from the University of Ioannina (2003), an MS degree from the Computer Engineering Department of the University of Minnesota (2005), and a PhD (with honors) from the Department of Computer & Communication Engineering of the University of Thessaly (2009). His PhD dissertation was awarded the prestigious Certificate of Recognition and Honorable Mention in 2009 by ACM SIGKDD. From March 2009 until February 2010, he was appointed as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University, working on privacy for medical data sharing. In March 2010, he joined IBM Research in Zurich as a research scientist in the Information Analytics group. In 2011, he was nominated as a member of the IBM Business and Technical Leadership Resources program. Aris’ research interests are in the areas of databases, data mining, privacy-preserving data mining, privacy and anonymity in trajectories and location-based services, privacy in medical data sharing, and knowledge hiding. In these areas, he has given many seminars and two tutorials, published more than 80 research works including four Springer books, and authored ten patents. Aris is a regular reviewer for top-ranked journals and he regularly serves on the program committees of prestigious conferences. In addition to his role as a category editor for ACM Computing Reviews, he is an editor for IGI’s International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations. From January to August 2009, he also served as an associate and contributing editor for ACM Crossroads.
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