Publications

@article{GuerraBalboa2026,
  title = {Understanding Disclosure Risk in Differential Privacy with Applications to Noise Calibration and Auditing},
  volume = {19},
  ISSN = {2150-8097},
  DOI = {10.14778/3801059.3801069},
  number = {7},
  journal = {Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)},
  author = {Guerra-Balboa,  Patricia and Sauer,  Annika and Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Strufe,  Thorsten},
  year = {2026},
  month = Mar,
  pages = {1558–1571}
}

@article{AngelozziVeronadeResende2026,
  title = {Where to Intervene? Benchmarking Fairness-Aware Learning on Differentially Private Synthetic Tabular Data},
  volume = {2026},
  ISSN = {2299-0984},
  DOI = {10.56553/popets-2026-0110},
  number = {4},
  journal = {Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies},
  publisher = {Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium Advisory Board},
  author = {Angelozzi, Vin{\'\i}cius Gabriel and Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang},
  year = {2026},
  month = Oct,
  pages = {53–82}
}

@inproceedings{MarreirasNeto2026,
  title = {Data Poisoning in Longitudinal Local Differential Privacy: Attacks and Analysis},
  ISBN = {9783032332608},
  ISSN = {1611-3349},
  DOI = {10.1007/978-3-032-33260-8_7},
  booktitle = {Data and Applications Security and Privacy XL},
  publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
  author = {Marreiras Neto,  Ant\^onio A. and Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Machado,  Javam C.},
  year = {2026},
  pages = {124–141}
}

@inproceedings{Babaei2026,
author = {Babaei, Maryam and Wang, Yingke and Lautraite, Hadrien and Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and A\"{\i}vodji, Ulrich and Gambs, S\'{e}bastien},
title = {Quantifying the Privacy of Counterfactuals by Leveraging Membership Inference Attacks Against Synthetic Data},
year = {2026},
isbn = {9798400725968},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
doi = {10.1145/3805689.3812361},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency},
pages = {4988–5022},
series = {FAccT '26}
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Gonze2026,
author = {Gonze, Ramon G. and Fernandes, Natasha and Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Palamidessi, Catuscia and Bielova, Nataliia },
booktitle = {2026 39th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) CSF },
title = {{ Beyond Epsilon: A Principled QIF Framework for Local Differential Privacy }},
year = {2026},
volume = {},
ISSN = {2374-8303},
pages = {483-496},
doi = {10.1109/CSF68417.2026.00032},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
month =Jul}

@inproceedings{Mishra2026,
author = {Mishra, Abhishek Kumar and Cunche, Mathieu and Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang},
title = {How Tough Is Location Anonymization? Re-identifying 100K Real-User Trajectories in Japan},
year = {2026},
isbn = {9798400723568},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
doi = {10.1145/3779208.3805978},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security},
pages = {1261–1273},
location = {Bangalore, India},
series = {ASIA CCS '26}
}

@inproceedings{Arcolezi2026revising,
  author={Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Gambs, S{\'e}bastien},
  booktitle={2026 IEEE 42nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)}, 
  title={Revisiting Locally Differentially Private Protocols: Towards Better Trade-Offs in Privacy, Utility, and Attack Resistance}, 
  year={2026},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={294-307},
  doi={10.1109/ICDE65706.2026.00029}}

@inproceedings{arcolezi2026private,
  title={Private Frequency Estimation via Residue Number Systems},
  author={Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang},
  doi={10.1609/aaai.v40i42.40862},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  volume={40},
  number={42},
  pages={35518--35526},
  year={2026}
}

@inproceedings{pinzon2026estimating,
  title={Estimating the True Distribution of Data Collected with Randomized Response},
  author={Pinz{\'o}n, Carlos Antonio and ElSalamouny, Ehab and Massot, Lucas and Miller, Alexis and Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Palamidessi, Catuscia},
  doi={10.1609/aaai.v40i42.40888},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  volume={40},
  number={42},
  pages={35751-35758},
  year={2026}
}

@inproceedings{arcolezi2025ccs,
author = {Zhang, Haoying and Mishra, Abhishek K. and Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang},
title = {Demo: Exploring Utility and Attackability Trade-offs in Local Differential Privacy},
year = {2025},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3719027.3760706},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security},
pages = {4728–4730},
numpages = {3},
location = {Taipei, Taiwan},
series = {CCS '25}
}

@inproceedings{Arcolezi2025ecai,
  title = {Fair Play for Individuals,  Foul Play for Groups? Auditing Anonymization’s Impact on ML Fairness},
  DOI = {10.3233/faia250909},
  booktitle = {ECAI 2025},
  publisher = {IOS Press},
  author = {Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Alishahi,  Mina and Bendoukha,  Adda-Akram and Kaaniche,  Nesrine},
  year = {2025},
  month = oct 
}

@inproceedings{Bendoukha2025,
author = {Bendoukha, Adda-Akram and Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Kaaniche, Nesrine and Boudguiga, Aymen and Sirdey, Renaud and Clet, Pierre-Emmanuel},
title = {FADE: Federated Aggregation with Discrimination Elimination},
year = {2025},
isbn = {9798400714825},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
doi = {10.1145/3715275.3732203},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency},
pages = {3182–3195},
numpages = {14},
keywords = {Federated Learning, Group fairness, Algorithmic Fairness},
location = {},
series = {FAccT '25}
}

@article{Arcolezi2025,
  title = {Group fairness under obfuscated sensitive information},
  volume = {33},
  ISSN = {1875-8924},
  DOI = {10.1177/0926227x251330212},
  number = {4},
  journal = {Journal of Computer Security},
  publisher = {SAGE Publications},
  author = {Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Makhlouf,  Karima and Palamidessi,  Catuscia},
  year = {2025},
  month = may,
  pages = {239–260}
}

@InProceedings{Eichler2024,
author="Eichler, C{\'e}dric
and Champeil, Nathan
and Anciaux, Nicolas
and Bensamoun, Alexandra
and Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang
and De Fuentes, Jos{\'e} Maria",
title="Nob-{MIA}s: Non-biased Membership Inference Attacks Assessment on Large Language Models with Ex-Post Dataset Construction",
booktitle="Web Information Systems Engineering -- WISE 2024",
year="2025",
publisher="Springer Nature Singapore",
address="Singapore",
pages="441--456",
doi="10.1007/978-981-96-0570-5_32"
}

@article{Makhlouf2024,
  title = {On the impact of multi-dimensional local differential privacy on fairness},
  ISSN = {1573-756X},
  DOI = {10.1007/s10618-024-01031-0},
  journal = {Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery},
  publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
  author = {Makhlouf,  Karima and Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Zhioua,  Sami and Brahim,  Ghassen Ben and Palamidessi,  Catuscia},
  year = {2024},
  month = may 
}

@article{arcolezi2024revealing,
  title={Revealing the True Cost of Locally Differentially Private Protocols: An Auditing Perspective},
  author={Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Gambs, S{\'e}bastien},
  journal={Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies},
  doi = {10.56553/popets-2024-0110},
  volume={2024},
  number={4},
  pages={123--141},
  year={2024}
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Makhlouf2024_b,
  author={Makhlouf, Karima and Stefanović, Tamara and Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Palamidessi, Catuscia},
  booktitle={2024 IEEE 37th Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF)}, 
  title={A Systematic and Formal Study of the Impact of Local Differential Privacy on Fairness: Preliminary Results}, 
  year={2024},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={1-16},
  keywords={Privacy;Differential privacy;Accuracy;Systematics;Noise;Training data;Equal opportunities;Differential Privacy;Machine learning;Fairness;Randomized Response},
  doi={10.1109/CSF61375.2024.00039}}

@InProceedings{pmlr-v236-binkyte24a,
  title = 	 {Causal Discovery Under Local Privacy},
  author =       {Binkyte, Ruta and Pinz\'on, Carlos Antonio and Lesty\'an, Szilvia and Jung, Kangsoo and Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Palamidessi, Catuscia},
  booktitle = 	 {Proceedings of the Third Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning},
  pages = 	 {325--383},
  year = 	 {2024},
  editor = 	 {Locatello, Francesco and Didelez, Vanessa},
  volume = 	 {236},
  series = 	 {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
  month = 	 {01--03 Apr},
  publisher =    {PMLR},
  url = 	 {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v236/binkyte24a.html},
}

@article{Arcolezi2022,
  doi = {10.1016/j.dcan.2022.07.003},
  year = {2022},
  month = jul,
  publisher = {Elsevier {BV}},
  author = {Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Jean-Fran{\c{c}}ois Couchot and Bechara Al Bouna and Xiaokui Xiao},
  title = {Improving the utility of locally differentially private protocols for longitudinal and multidimensional frequency estimates},
  journal = {Digital Communications and Networks}
}

@article{Arcolezi2023,
author = {Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Gambs, S\'{e}bastien and Couchot, Jean-Fran\c{c}ois and Palamidessi, Catuscia},
title = {On the Risks of Collecting Multidimensional Data Under Local Differential Privacy},
year = {2023},
issue_date = {January 2023},
publisher = {VLDB Endowment},
volume = {16},
number = {5},
issn = {2150-8097},
doi = {10.14778/3579075.3579086},
journal = {Proc. VLDB Endow.},
month = {jan},
pages = {1126–1139},
numpages = {14}
}

@inproceedings{Arcolezi2023evolving,
  author    = {Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Pinzón,  Carlos A and Palamidessi,  Catuscia and Gambs,  Sébastien},
  title     = {Frequency Estimation of Evolving Data Under Local Differential Privacy},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Extending Database
               Technology, {EDBT} 2023, Ioannina, Greece, March 28 - March 31, 2023},
  pages     = {512--525},
  publisher = {OpenProceedings.org},
  year      = {2023},
  doi       = {10.48786/EDBT.2023.44},
}

@InProceedings{Arcolezi2023_dbsec,
author="Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang
and Makhlouf, Karima
and Palamidessi, Catuscia",
editor="Atluri, Vijayalakshmi
and Ferrara, Anna Lisa",
title="(Local) Differential Privacy has NO Disparate Impact on Fairness",
booktitle="Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXXVII",
year="2023",
publisher="Springer Nature Switzerland",
address="Cham",
pages="3--21",
doi="10.1007/978-3-031-37586-6_1"
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Arcolezi2023_b,
  title = {On the Utility Gain of Iterative Bayesian Update for Locally Differentially Private Mechanisms},
  ISBN = {9783031375866},
  ISSN = {1611-3349},
  DOI = {10.1007/978-3-031-37586-6_11},
  booktitle = {Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXXVII},
  publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
  author = {Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Cerna,  Selene and Palamidessi,  Catuscia},
  year = {2023},
  pages = {165–183}
}

@inproceedings{multi_freq_ldpy,
  author="Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang
  and Couchot, Jean-Fran{\c{c}}ois
  and Gambs, S{\'e}bastien
  and Palamidessi, Catuscia
  and Zolfaghari, Majid",
  editor="Atluri, Vijayalakshmi
  and Di Pietro, Roberto
  and Jensen, Christian D.
  and Meng, Weizhi",
  title="Multi-Freq-LDPy: Multiple Frequency Estimation Under Local Differential Privacy in Python",
  booktitle="Computer Security -- ESORICS 2022",
  year="2022",
  doi="10.1007/978-3-031-17143-7_40",
  publisher="Springer Nature Switzerland",
  address="Cham",
  pages="770--775",
}

@ARTICLE{Arcolezi2022_tii,
  author={Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Cerna, Selene and Couchot, Jean-François and Guyeux, Christophe and Makhoul, Abdallah},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics}, 
  title={Privacy-Preserving Prediction of Victim’s Mortality and Their Need for Transportation to Health Facilities}, 
  year={2022},
  volume={18},
  number={8},
  pages={5592-5599},
  doi={10.1109/TII.2021.3123588}}

@article{Arcolezi2022_b,
  title = {Differentially private multivariate time series forecasting of aggregated human mobility with deep learning: Input or gradient perturbation?},
  volume = {34},
  ISSN = {1433-3058},
  DOI = {10.1007/s00521-022-07393-0},
  number = {16},
  journal = {Neural Computing and Applications},
  publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
  author = {Arcolezi,  Héber Hwang and Couchot,  Jean-Fran\c{c}ois and Renaud,  Denis and Al Bouna,  Bechara and Xiao,  Xiaokui},
  year = {2022},
  month = jun,
  pages = {13355–13369}
}

@inproceedings{Arcolezi_rs_fd,
  title={Random Sampling Plus Fake Data: Multidimensional Frequency Estimates With Local Differential Privacy},
  author={Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Couchot, Jean-Fran{\c{c}}ois and Al Bouna, Bechara and Xiao, Xiaokui},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 30th {ACM} International Conference on Information \& Knowledge Management},
  pages={47--57},
  year={2021},
  doi = {10.1145/3459637.3482467},
  month = {oct},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
}

@article{Cerna2021,
  title = {Machine learning-based forecasting of firemen ambulances’ turnaround time in hospitals,  considering the COVID-19 impact},
  volume = {109},
  ISSN = {1568-4946},
  DOI = {10.1016/j.asoc.2021.107561},
  journal = {Applied Soft Computing},
  publisher = {Elsevier BV},
  author = {Cerna,  Selene and Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Guyeux,  Christophe and Royer-Fey,  Guillaume and Chevallier,  Céline},
  year = {2021},
  month = sep,
  pages = {107561}
}

@article{Arcolezi2021,
  title = {Preserving Geo-Indistinguishability of the Emergency Scene to Predict Ambulance Response Time},
  volume = {26},
  ISSN = {2297-8747},
  DOI = {10.3390/mca26030056},
  number = {3},
  journal = {Mathematical and Computational Applications},
  publisher = {MDPI AG},
  author = {Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Cerna,  Selene and Guyeux,  Christophe and Couchot,  Jean-Fran\c{c}ois},
  year = {2021},
  month = aug,
  pages = {56}
}

@article{Arcolezi2021_C,
  title = {RISE controller tuning and system identification through machine learning for human lower limb rehabilitation via neuromuscular electrical stimulation},
  volume = {102},
  ISSN = {0952-1976},
  DOI = {10.1016/j.engappai.2021.104294},
  journal = {Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence},
  publisher = {Elsevier BV},
  author = {Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Nunes,  Willian R.B.M. and de Araujo,  Rafael A. and Cerna,  Selene and Sanches,  Marcelo A.A. and Teixeira,  Marcelo C.M. and de Carvalho,  Aparecido A.},
  year = {2021},
  month = jun,
  pages = {104294}
}

@article{Arcolezi2020_B,
  title = {Identifying the knee joint angular position under neuromuscular electrical stimulation via long short-term memory neural networks},
  volume = {36},
  ISSN = {2446-4740},
  DOI = {10.1007/s42600-020-00089-1},
  number = {4},
  journal = {Research on Biomedical Engineering},
  publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
  author = {Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Nunes,  Willian R. B. M. and Cerna,  Selene and de Araujo,  Rafael A. and Sanches,  Marcelo Augusto Assun\c{c}ão and Teixeira,  Marcelo Carvalho Minhoto and de Carvalho,  Aparecido Augusto},
  year = {2020},
  month = sep,
  pages = {511–526}
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Arcolezi2021_g,
  title = {Longitudinal Collection and Analysis of Mobile Phone Data with Local Differential Privacy},
  ISBN = {9783030724658},
  ISSN = {1868-422X},
  DOI = {10.1007/978-3-030-72465-8_3},
  booktitle={IFIP International Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management},
  publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
  author = {Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Couchot,  Jean-Fran\c{c}ois and Bouna,  Bechara Al and Xiao,  Xiaokui},
  year = {2021},
  pages = {40–57}
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Arcolezi2020_D,
  author={Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Couchot, Jean-François and Baala, Oumaya and Contet, Jean-Michel and Al Bouna, Bechara and Xiao, Xiaokui},
  booktitle={2020 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC)}, 
  title={Mobility modeling through mobile data: generating an optimized and open dataset respecting privacy}, 
  year={2020},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={1689-1694},
  keywords={Urban areas;Data models;Companies;Data privacy;Extrapolation;Geology;Mobility scenario modeling;Synthetic data generation;Open data;Inferring anonymous data},
  doi={10.1109/IWCMC48107.2020.9148138}}

@article{Arcolezi2020_E,
  title = {Forecasting the number of firefighter interventions per region with local-differential-privacy-based data},
  volume = {96},
  ISSN = {0167-4048},
  DOI = {10.1016/j.cose.2020.101888},
  journal = {Computers \& Security},
  publisher = {Elsevier BV},
  author = {Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Couchot,  Jean-Fran\c{c}ois and Cerna,  Selene and Guyeux,  Christophe and Royer,  Guillaume and Bouna,  Béchara Al and Xiao,  Xiaokui},
  year = {2020},
  month = sep,
  pages = {101888}
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Cerna2020_B,
  title = {A Comparison of LSTM and XGBoost for Predicting Firemen Interventions},
  ISBN = {9783030456917},
  ISSN = {2194-5365},
  DOI = {10.1007/978-3-030-45691-7_39},
  booktitle = {Trends and Innovations in Information Systems and Technologies},
  publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
  author = {Cerna,  Selene and Guyeux,  Christophe and Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Couturier,  Raphaël and Royer,  Guillaume},
  year = {2020},
  pages = {424–434}
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Cerna2020_f,
  author={Cerna, Selene and Guyeux, Christophe and Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Royer, Guillaume},
  booktitle={2020 11th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS)}, 
  title={Boosting Methods for Predicting Firemen Interventions}, 
  year={2020},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={001-006},
  keywords={Roads;Boosting;Robustness;Real-time systems;Time factors;Resource management;Machinery;XGBoost;AdaBoost;Gradient Boosting;Firemen;Prediction},
  doi={10.1109/ICICS49469.2020.239488}}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Arcolezi2019,
  author={Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Nunes, Willian R. B. M. and Ñahuis, Selene Leya Cerna and Sanches, Marcelo A. A. and Teixeira, Marcelo C. M. and de Carvalho, Aparecido A.},
  booktitle={2019 6th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT)}, 
  title={A RISE-based Controller Fine-tuned by an Improved Genetic Algorithm for Human Lower Limb Rehabilitation via Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation}, 
  year={2019},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={1197-1202},
  keywords={Muscles;Sociology;Statistics;Knee;Genetic algorithms;Mathematical model;Fatigue},
  doi={10.1109/CoDIT.2019.8820357}}

@INPROCEEDINGS{nahuis2019,
  author={Ñahuis, Selene Leya Cerna and Guyeux, Christophe and Arcolezi, H\'eber Hwang and Couturier, Raphaël and Royer, Guillaume and Lotufo, Anna Diva Plasencia},
  booktitle={2019 6th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT)}, 
  title={Long Short-Term Memory for Predicting Firemen Interventions}, 
  year={2019},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={1132-1137},
  doi={10.1109/CoDIT.2019.8820671}}