Prof. Esma Aïmeur gave invited talk at our RTG

Prof. Esma Aïmeur was invited as a “Visiting Professor” from 07/05/2017-14/05/17 by the GRK-2050. She was invited in TU Darmstadt to strengthen the scientific exchange regarding privacy in social networks and electronic commerce. She is a full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal. She received her Ph.D. Degree from University of Paris 6 in the field of Artificial Intelligence. She was the head of the Computer Science division of the multidisciplinary Masters Program in Electronic Commerce at the University of Montreal.

She has been working with her team on computer privacy for more than 15 years. She is interested in privacy-enhancing technologies in different settings, such as social networks, electronic commerce and e-learning. She also works on privacy-preserving data mining and the protection of personal data (identity theft, information disclosure, profiling and re-identification).

Prof. Aïmeur gave a distinguished talk on “Online Privacy Issues in the Age of Exposure”. Graduate students and researchers from the TU Darmstadt as well as students and researchers from the University of Kassel were present in her insightful talk. After the talk, several researchers (working on privacy topics in the RTG) scheduled individual appointments to discuss their research ideas and future collaboration opportunities with her.

Finally, Prof. Max Mühlhäuser and Prof. Peter Buxmann had discussion on further exchanges of researchers to strengthen the common vision of RTG between University of Montreal and TU Darmstadt or University of Kassel.