I am a third year PhD student at the Large-Scale Data and Systems Group (LSDS) of the Imperial College London, under the supervision of Prof. Peter Pietzuch.

My research addresses the design and implementation of secure, high-performance, runtimes for the cloud. I am particularly interested in privacy-preserving systems and confidential computing. Most of my work is open-source and available on Github. During my PhD, I have interned with Intel Labs in the Datacenter security team.

I received a MSc in advanced mathematics, a BSc in mathematics, and a BSc in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). In the past, I have worked as a researcher for the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Nokia Bell Labs, the Swiss Center of Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), the University of Neuchatel, and the UPC.

Publications

1. A Novel Framework for the Analysis of Unknown Transactions in Bitcoin: Theory, Model, and Experimental Results (BITCOIN 2021)
   Maurantonio Caprolu, Matteo Pontecorvi, Matteo Signorini, Carlos Segarra, and Roberto Di Pietro
   [DOI | arXiv | Cite | PDF]
2. MQT-TZ: Hardening IoT Brokers Using ARM TrustZone (SRDS 2020)
   C. Segarra, R. Delgado-Gonzalo, and V. Schiavoni
   [DOI | arXiv | Cite | PDF]
3. Kollaps: Decentralized and Dynamic Topology Emulation (EuroSys 2020)
   P. Gouveia, J. Neves, C. Segarra, L. Liechti, S. Issa, V. Schiavoni, and M. Matos
   [DOI | arXiv | Cite | PDF]
4. “MQT-TZ: Secure MQTT Broker for Biomedical Signal Processing on the Edge” (MIE 2020)
   C. Segarra, R. Delgado-Gonzalo, and V. Schiavoni
   [DOI | arXiv | Cite | PDF]
5. Secure Stream Processing for Medical Data (IEEE EMBC 2019)
   C. Segarra, E. Muntan'e, M. Lemay, V. Schiavoni, and R. Delgado-Gonzalo
   [DOI | arXiv | Cite | PDF]
6. Using Trusted Execution Environments for Secure Stream Processing of Medical Data (DAIS 2019)
   C. Segarra, R. Delgado-Gonzalo, M. Lemay, P-L. Aublin, P. Pietzuch, and V. Schiavoni
   [DOI | arXiv | Cite | PDF]

Talks

1. Granny: Managing Compute-Intensive Cloud Applications using Granules
   24/05/2023 - Oxford e-Research Center
   [Url | Slides]

Education

• PhD in Computing LargeScale Data & Systems Group - Imperial College London
  October 2020 - Present
  (Advisor: Peter Pietzuch)

• MSc in Advanced Mathematics Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)
  September 2019 - July 2019 (Expected Graduation: July 2020)
  MSc Thesis: Live Migration of Distributed Container Deployments
  (Advisor: Jordi Guitart)
  [URI | arXiv | Cite | PDF]

• BSc in Mathematics Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)
  September 2014 - May 2019
  BSc Thesis: Using Trusted Execution Environments for Secure Stream Processing of Medical Data (Advisors: Ricard Delgad-Gonzalo, José Adrián Rodríguez Fonollosa)
  [URI | arXiv | Cite | PDF]

• BSc in Telecommunications Engineering Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)
  September 2014 - May 2019
  BSc Thesis: Using Trusted Execution Environments for Secure Stream Processing of Medical Data (Advisors: Ricard Delgad-Gonzalo, José Adrián Rodríguez Fonollosa)
  [URI | arXiv | Cite | PDF]

Work Experience

• Graduate Research Intern Datacenter Security Team - Intel Labs
  June 2022 - September 2022
  Supervisor: Mona Vij

• Research Collaborator Computer Architecture Department - Technical University of Catalonia
  October 2019 - October 2020
  Supervisor: Jordi Guitart

• Full-Stack Web Developer Alumniverse
  January 2020 - June 2020
  Technologies used: PHP-Laravel and VueJS

• Research Assistant Complex Systems Group - Institut d’Informatique (Université de Neuchâtel)
  August 2019 - December 2019
  Supervisor: Valerio Schiavoni

• Trainee Embedded Software Group - Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology
  October 2018 - July 2019
  Supervisor: Ricard Delgado

• Summer Intern Cybersecurity Group - Nokia Bell Labs
  June 2018 - September 2018
  Supervisors: Matteo Pontecorvi, Matteo Signorgini

• Research Student Workflows and Distributed Computing Group - Barcelona Supercomputing Center
  April 2017 - June 2018
  Supervisor: Rosa Badia

Last update: 10/02/2023