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Selected Research Support
  • National Science Foundation, "Collaborative Research: Suppressing Sensitive Aggregates Over Hidden Web Databases: a Novel and Urgent Challenge", 07/15/2009-07/14/2012, PI.
  • National Science Foundation, "CAREER: A Theoretical Foundation for Achievability and Optimization in Privacy-Preserving Data Mining", 01/01/2008-12/31/2012, PI.
  • National Science Foundation, "Collaborative Research: Proper Location Identification in Wireless Networks", 09/01/2007 - 08/31/2010, PI.
Selected Publications
  • Nan Zhang and Wei Zhao, Privacy-Preserving OLAP: An Information-Theoretic Approach, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), to appear.
  • Wei Yu, Nan Zhang, Xinwen Fu, and Wei Zhao, Self-Disciplinary Worms and Countermeasures: Modeling and Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), to appear.
  • Arjun Dasgupta, Nan Zhang, Gautam Das, and Surajit Chaudhuri, Privacy Preservation of Aggregates in Hidden Databases: Why and How?, Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2009.
  • Anirban Maiti, Arjun Dasgupta, Nan Zhang, and Gautam Das, Revealing data behind web form interfaces, Demo Paper, Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2009.
  • Aniket Pingley, Wei Yu, Nan Zhang, Xinwen Fu, and Wei Zhao, CAP: A Context-Aware Privacy Protection System for Location-Based Services, Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2009.
  • Xinwen Fu, Nan Zhang, Aniket Pingley, Wei Yu, Jie Wang, and Wei Zhao, The Digital Marauder's Map: A New Threat to Location Privacy in Wireless Networks, Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2009.
  • Arjun Dasgupta, Nan Zhang, and Gautam Das, Leveraging COUNT Information in Sampling Hidden Databases, Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2009.
  • Wei Yu, Nan Zhang, Xinwen Fu, Riccardo Bettati, and Wei Zhao, On Localization Attacks to Internet Threat Monitors: An Information-Theoretic Framework, Proceedings of the 38th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2008.
  • Nan Zhang, Wei Zhao, Privacy Protection Against Malicious Adversaries in Distributed Information Sharing Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 20(8), 2008.
  • Nan Zhang, Wei Zhao, Privacy-Preserving Data-Mining Systems, IEEE Computer, Vol. 40, No. 4, Pages 52-58, April 2007.
  • Nan Zhang, Wei Zhao, Distributed Privacy Preserving Information Sharing, Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Pages 889-900, 2005.
  • Nan Zhang, Shengquan Wang, Wei Zhao, A New Scheme on Privacy-Preserving Data Classification, Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Pages 374-383, 2005.
Selected Professional Services
  • Program Committee Member, 6th IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2008, 2009, 2010)
  • Program Committee Member, 28th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008)
  • NSF Panelist, 2007, 2008, 2009
  • Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
  • Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
  • Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (TNN)
  • Reviewer, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal (DMKD)
  • Reviewer, Knowledge and Information Systems (KIS)
  • Reviewer, Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC)