SHORT BIO

Ha Xuan Son was born in CanTho city, Vietnam. He obtained his Bachelor degree in Software Engineering from the Faculty of Information Technology, Can Tho University, Vietnam (2013) and he received his Master’s in Computer Science from Ho Chi Minh city University of Technology (HCMUT), Vietnam National University HCM city (2017). Currently, he is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy. He works under the supervision and co-supervision of Professors Elena Ferrari and Professor Barbara Carminati.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Security, Privacy, Trust, Blockchain, IoT, Machine Learning, Distributed Data Management

RESEARCH

The project I am working on aims at designing and developing a model and a system to protect user personal data in IoT ecosystems by moving from a service-centric way of securing personal data (which is today the de facto standard) to a user-centric approach. This will empower individuals with tools to manage their privacy preferences over data produced through different IoT/wearable devices. Adopting a user-centric model will allow us to design a system that offers individuals more fine-grained control on how their data are released, we plan to achieve an information-sharing approach driven also by trust relationships with data consumers. The system will be complemented with tools leveraging on data mining and machine learning techniques able to: automatically adjust user privacy settings when new devices enter the personal pervasive ecosystem and adapt privacy settings to change with minimal user intervention.

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