Medical Data (Privacy)

A Selection of Projects and Teaching Activities

Projects:

  • CALCIPROTECT: A novel intervention against osteoporosis and vascular calcification for CKD patients (ERS SFASIA008, 2025-2026)
  • COAT: Computational ecosystem for clinical applications of organ crosstalk (ERS PFExC005, 2022-2024)
  • myneData: Self-determined Utilization of Personal Data with Inherent Protection of Privacy and Data (BMBF, 2016-2019)
  • RUST: Latent Patient Representations using Single-Cell Transcriptomics (ERS SFFAIR002, 2025)

Teaching Activities:

Publications

Transformer-Based Integrative Patient Representations from Single-Cell RNA Data. Learning Meaningful Representations of Life Workshop (LMRL ‘25), Apr 24 - Apr 28, 2025, Singapore, Singapore. April 2025.
Complementing Organizational Security in Data Ecosystems with Technical Guarantees. Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Building a Secure and Empowered Cyberspace (BuildSEC ‘24), Dec 19 - Dec 20, 2024, New Delhi, India. December 2024.
PASTA-4-PHT: A Pipeline for Automated Security and Technical Audits for the Personal Health Train. arXiv. December 2024.
scE(match): Privacy-Preserving Cluster Matching of Single-Cell Data. Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom ‘24), Dec 17 - Dec 21, 2024, Sanya, China. December 2024.
mcBERT: Patient-Level Single-cell Transcriptomics Data Representation. bioRxiv. November 2024.
Toward Technically Enforceable Consent in Healthcare Research. Research Papers of the Platform Privacy, vol. 4, Oct 17 - Oct 18, 2024, Berlin, Germany. October 2024.
The Unresolved Need for Dependable Guarantees on Security, Sovereignty, and Trust in Data Ecosystems. Data & Knowledge Engineering, vol. 151. May 2024.
BLOOM: BLoom filter based Oblivious Outsourced Matchings. Proceedings of the 5th iDASH Privacy and Security Workshop 2016, vol. 10, no. Suppl 2, Nov 11 - Nov 11, 2016, Chicago, IL, USA. July 2017.