Dr Pascal Berrang BSc

Dr Pascal Berrang

School of Computer Science
Associate Professor in Computer Science

Contact details

Email
p.p.berrang@bham.ac.uk
Address
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Pascal Berrang is a Associate Professor for the School of Computer Science, at the University 麻豆精选. His research interests are in the field of IT Security & Privacy with a focus on Blockchain Technology, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning.

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Qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science (topic: privacy of biomedical data), Saarland University, 2018
  • BSc in Computer Science, Saarland University, 2013

Biography

Pascal Berrang qualified with a BSc in computer science at Saarland University in 2013. Subsequently, he joined the Graduate School at Saarland University and became a PhD student in the Information Security and Cryptography Group under supervision of Michael Backes. He submitted his PhD thesis in November 2017 and received his PhD in July 2018 being awarded the highest possible grade “summa cum laude". His PhD thesis has the title "Quantifying and Mitigating Privacy Risks in Biomedical Data" and received the Dr. Eduard-Martin award 2019 for the best PhD thesis in the category in mathematics and computer science.

In 2017, Pascal Berrang started working as a freelance researcher and consultant for the blockchain project Nimiq. In October 2020, he then became Lecturer at the University 麻豆精选 working on Privacy of Health Data, Blockchain Protocols, and the intersection of Security & Privacy with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Salem, A, Berrang, P, Humbert, M & Backes, M 2019, '', PoPETs, vol. 2019, no. 1, pp. 47-67.

Conference article

Raab, R, Berrang, P, Gerhart, P & Schr枚der, D 2025, '', PoPETs, vol. 2025, no. 1, pp. 118鈥�149.

Wu, Y, He, X, Berrang, P, Humbert, M, Backes, M, Gong, N & Zhang, Y 2024, '', PoPETs, vol. 2024, no. 4, pp. 818鈥�839.

Berrang, P, Gerhart, P & Schr枚der, D 2024, '', PoPETs, vol. 2024, no. 4, pp. 947鈥�966.

Conference contribution

Wu, Y, Wen, R, Backes, M, Berrang, P, Humbert, M, Shen, Y & Zhang, Y 2024, . in Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium. USENIX , pp. 5841-5858. <>

Esiyok, I, Berrang, P, Cohn-Gordon, K & Kuennemann, R 2023, . in NDSS Symposium 2023 Accepted Papers., f96, The Internet Society, pp. 1-17, Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2023, San Diego, California, United States, 27/02/23.

Yang, Z, He, X, Li, Z, Backes, M, Humbert, M, Berrang, P & Zhang, Y 2023, . in A Krause, E Brunskill, K Cho, B Engelhardt, S Sabato & J Scarlett (eds), Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, vol. 202, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, pp. 39299-39313, The Fortieth International Conference on Machine Learning, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 23/07/23. <>

Wang, Z, Chaliasos, S, Qin, K, Zhou, L, Gao, L, Berrang, P, Livshits, B & Gervais, A 2023, . in WWW '23: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 2022-2032, The Web Conference 2023, Austin, Texas, United States, 30/04/23.

Backes, M, Berrang, P, Hanzlik, L & Pryvalov, I 2022, . in V Atluri, R Di Pietro, CD Jensen & W Meng (eds), Computer Security 鈥� ESORICS 2023: 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 26鈥�30, 2022, Proceedings, Part II. 1 edn, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13555, Springer, Cham, pp. 672鈥�691, 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Copenhagen, Denmark, 26/09/22.

Hagestedt, I, Humbert, M, Berrang, P, Lehmann, I, Eils, R, Backes, M & Zhang, Y 2020, . in IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P).

Hagestedt, I, Zhang, Y, Humbert, M, Berrang, P, Tang, H, Wang, X & Backes, M 2019, . in Proceedings of the 26th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS).

Salem, A, Zhang, Y, Humbert, M, Berrang, P, Fritz, M & Backes, M 2019, . in Proceedings of the 26th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS).

Berrang, P, Humbert, M, Zhang, Y, Lehmann, I, Eils, R & Backes, M 2018, . in Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroSP). IEEE.

Backes, M, Berrang, P, Bieg, M, Eils, R, Herrmann, C, Humbert, M & Lehmann, I 2017, . in Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P). IEEE, pp. 957-976.

Doctoral Thesis

Berrang, P 2017, '', Saarland University.