Álvaro García R., Ph.D.

Álvaro García R. holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science by Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), developed at the French National Research Institute of Informatics and Automatics.

His PhD dissertation proposes a privacy-preserving design of a protocol for abuse detection over the Internet, namely decentralised Private Set Intersection (dPSI). By using BLS digital signatures, Data Minimisation is employed for achieving reduced protocol runtime in future decentralised deployments.

Previously, he worked at several R&D laboratories in Europe in specialized areas such as: Big Data at INESC-ID (Portugal); Privacy at INRIA (France); Networks at Cambridge and Queen Mary University of London (United Kingdom), as a visiting postdoctoral scholar,— and at IMDEA and Barcelona Supercomputing (Spain).

He has built (and continually runs) hacks on Trollslayer: a prototype of a crowdsourcing platform for the characterisation of victim-centric abuse — useful for detecting abusive content in Online Social Networks.

Álvaro shares his research contributions as Free Open Software on his GitHub, thus supporting free software and scientific research. Likewise, he is always interested in bold, challenging ideas that push-forward Research & Innovation.