Boel Nelson

Associate senior lecturer/Assistant Professor at Department of Information Technology; Division of Computing Science

E-mail:
boel.nelson@it.uu.se
Visiting address:
Hus 10, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
Postal address:
Box 337
751 05 UPPSALA
ORCID:
0000-0002-9746-4885

Short presentation

I conduct research on privacy in a broad sense. My aim is to provide full stack approaches to privacy—putting theoretically sound principles into practice—with an end-goal of bringing meaningful privacy to people. I am interested in how information flows through computer systems, and if and how much information leaks during that process. In cases where data leaks I ask the question "can leakage be prevented?", and otherwise "can we quantify the leakage?".

Personal website

Cybersecurity at UU

Keywords

  • anonymous communication
  • censorship resilience
  • data privacy
  • differential privacy
  • privacy enhancing technologies
  • side-channels
  • system security

Research

Right now I focus primarily on achieving provable privacy in instant messaging, under an umbrella of projects we call DenIM (deniable instant messaging). This work started with generous funding from MSCA in a project called Provable Privacy for Metadata (ProPriM).

Media

Metadata: the traces you didn't know you were leaving online

News article about the research project Provable Privacy for Metadata (ProPriM)

https://cs.au.dk/news-events/metadata-the-traces-you-didnt-know-you-were-leaving-online

Keynote on differential privacy

Differential Privacy: Principled Foundations, and Trade-offs in Applications, keynote at Open House at Mormor Karl's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpSjfmd_614

Anonymization—friend or foe?

Popular science presentation about anonymization given at MatchPoints 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9eREYOeW8A

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Boel Nelson

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