Víctor Rubio Jornet

Víctor Rubio Jornet

PhD Candidate in Network Engineering

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) — Barcelona, Spain

About Me

I am a PhD researcher in Network Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona. My research seeks to study formal privacy guarantees in unstructured data such as trajectories and graphs. I am a recipient of the Joan Oró doctoral scholarship (AGAUR) and have held a research stay at the University of Edinburgh. My work draws on differential privacy, generative models, and privacy attacks to bridge the gap between theoretical privacy and its practical deployment.

Research Interests

My research focuses on protecting unstructured data for machine learning applications with formal privacy guarantees. I work to research into the balance between data utility and privacy, using: differential privacy, and synthetic data generation mainly in graphs and trajectories. Key topics include:


Differential Privacy Synthetic Data Generation Trajectory Privacy Graph Privacy Membership Inference Attacks Generative Models Machine Learning

Highlights

Current Position

PhD Researcher — UPC

Working on privacy guarantees for unstructured data in ML applications, funded by the Joan Oró doctoral scholarship.

Research Stay

University of Edinburgh - School of Informatics

3-month stay (May–Jul 2025) under Dr. Marc Juarez.

Award

Best Thesis — NErD

Best Master's thesis award at Network Engineering Day (NErD) for my work on differential privacy in generative models.