Biography
I am a senior researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Software Security of Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). My main research focus stands at the intersection of human-computer interaction and privacy engineering. Particularly, I seek to create technological solutions for supporting the cybersecurity decisions of social network users and software developers. For this, I elaborate on digital nudging applications, their personalization by means of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and ethical issues arising from combining persuasion with AI.
Before joining the Hamburg University of Technology, I worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Duisburg-Essen. From January 2020 to October 2021 I was the coordinator of the RTG “User-Centered Social Media” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Between August 2018 and September 2021 I participated in the H2020 project “PDP4E: Methods and Tools for GDPR Compliance through Privacy and Data Protection Engineering”. In the past, I have worked as a software engineer in Denmark and as an undergraduate research assistant in Argentina.
Besides conducting my research, I am involved in multi-stakeholder forums for the discussion of public policies and Internet governance issues. Particularly, in debates concerning the users' right to privacy and control over their private information.
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Interests
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Software Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Privacy and Cybersecurity
- Internet governance
- Public policy development
Education
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Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2019
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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Ms.C. in Information Systems, 2013
Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina
Recent Publications
Projects
PDP4E: Privacy and Data Protection for Engineering
User-Centred Social Media
Academic Services
Program committee memberships
- Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 2021) Poster Track
- 16th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management (DPM 2021)
- 13th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS 2021)
- 1st International Conference on Cyber-Security and Resilience (CSR 2021)
- 6th International Conference on Cyber-Technologies and Cyber-Systems (CYBER 2021)
- 36th International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC 2021)
- 35th International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC 2020)
- 10th International Conference on Social Media Technologies, Communication, and Informatics (SOTICS 2020)
- 9th International Conference on Social Media Technologies, Communication, and Informatics (SOTICS 2019)
Reviewing and conference activities
- MDPI Journal Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417; CODEN: ASPCC7)
- MDPI Journal Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300; CODEN: ENTRFG)
- MDPI Journal Information (ISSN 2078-2489; CODEN: INFOGG)
- 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Systems (KMIS 2020) | Session chair
- 39th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security (SAFECOMP 2020) | Sub-reviewer
Other professional and academic services
- United Nations’ Roundtable 3C on Artificial Intelligence (2020) | Expert Consultant
- The Hague Summit for Accountability in the Digital Age (2019) | Delegate
- The Hague Summit for Accountability and Internet Democracy (2018) | Delegate
Contact
- nicolas.diaz-ferreyra [at] tuhh.de
- +49 (0) 404 2878 5003
- Blohmstr. 15, Hamburg, 21079
- Hamburg Innovation Port (HIP) - Institute of Software Security