Pascal Berrang

IT Security & Privacy (Blockchain, AI, Medical Data)

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I am an Associate Professor in Computer Science – Computer Security at the University of Birmingham, UK.

My research interests are in the field of IT Security & Privacy with a focus on Health Data, Blockchain Technology, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning.

Previously, I was a freelance researcher & consultant, specialising in blockchain technology (e.g., Nimiq). Prior to that, I completed my PhD in the Information Security and Cryptography Group at Saarland University under supervision of Michael Backes. My PhD thesis has the title Quantifying and Mitigating Privacy Risks in Biomedical Data. My thesis recently received the Dr. Eduard-Martin award 2019 for the best PhD thesis in the category in mathematics and computer science. I obtained my Bachelor degree from Saarland University in 2013, before joining the Graduate School of Computer Science there.

research areas

  • Security and Privacy of Machine Learning
  • Security and Privacy of Blockchain Technology
  • Security and Privacy of Health Data

If you’re a student interested in pursuing a PhD in one of these topics, don’t hesitate contacting me!

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selected publications

  1. PoPETs
    SoK: Descriptive Statistics Under Local Differential Privacy
    René Raab, Pascal Berrang, Paul Gerhart, and 1 more author
    Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs), 2025
  2. USENIX
    Quantifying Privacy Risks of Prompts in Visual Prompt Learning
    Yixin Wu, Rui Wen, Michael Backes, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (Security), 2024
  3. PoPETs
  4. PoPETs
    Measuring Conditional Anonymity—A Global Study
    Pascal Berrang, Paul Gerhart, and Dominique Schröder
    Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs), 2024
  5. NDSS
    Accountable Javascript Code Delivery
    Ilkan Esiyok, Pascal Berrang, Katriel Cohn-Gordon, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2023
  6. WWW
    On How Zero-Knowledge Proof Blockchain Mixers Improve, and Worsen User Privacy
    Zhipeng Wang, Stefanos Chaliasos, Kaihua Qin, and 5 more authors
    In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, 2023
  7. EuroS&P
    Membership Inference Against DNA Methylation Databases
    Inken Hagestedt, Mathias Humbert, Pascal Berrang, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2020
  8. NDSS
    ML-Leaks: Model and Data Independent Membership Inference Attacks and Defenses on Machine Learning Models
    Ahmed Salem, Yang Zhang, Mathias Humbert, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2019
  9. NDSS
    MBeacon: Privacy-Preserving Beacons for DNA Methylation Data
    Inken Hagestedt, Yang Zhang, Mathias Humbert, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2019
  10. CVCBT
    Albatross – An optimistic consensus algorithm
    Pascal Berrang, Philipp Styp-Rekowsky, Marvin Wissfeld, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Crypto Valley Conference on Blockchain Technology (CVCBT), 2019