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I am a Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Director of PolyU Research Centre for Privacy and Security Technologies in Future Smart Systems (RCPST). My research interests include adversarial machine learning, data privacy, database and network security, mobile, spatiotemporal and social databases. Aside from research, I lead the ASTAPLE lab, and the PolyU CTF Team. I am a senior member of IEEE, ACM, and CCF. I am also a certified Cisco CCNA Security Trainer. More information can be found in my CV.

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(New 2025!) Multiple PhD students, research assistants, and postdocs wanted

I have openings for 3+ PhD students (2025 in-take), and 4+ research assistants/postdoc researchers (immediately available) in the field of ...

Recent Posts

One Paper Accepted by PVLDB 2025

Our paper “Privacy for Free: Leveraging Local Differential Privacy Perturbed Data from Multiple Services” is accepted by The Proceedings of ...

Two Papers Accepted by ACM TheWebConf 2025

Our papers “MER-Inspector: Assessing Model Extraction Risks from An Attack-Agnostic Perspective” and "FUNU: Boosting Machine Unlearning Efficiency by Filtering Unnecessary ...

Two Papers Accepted by AAAI 2025

Our papers “A Sample-Level Evaluation and Generative Framework for Model Inversion Attacks” and "Exploring Intrinsic Alignments within Text Corpus" are ...

Two Papers Accepted by ICDE 2025

Our papers “Structure-Preference Enabled Graph Embedding Generation under Differential Privacy” and "Data Poisoning Attacks to Local Differential Privacy Protocols for ...

One Paper Accepted by SIGKDD 2025

Our paper “PrivDPR: Synthetic Graph Publishing with Deep PageRank under Differential Privacy” is accepted by SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery ...

Paper Accepted by ACM SIGMOD 2025 and Computing Surveys

Our paper "Federated Heavy Hitter Analytics with Local Differential Privacy” is accepted by International Conference of Management of Data (SIGMOD ...

Establishment of PolyU Research Centre for Privacy and Security Technologies in Future Smart Systems (RCPST)

It's my honor to announce the establishment of PolyU Research Centre for Privacy and Security Technologies in Future Smart Systems ...

ITF Grant Awarded

I have been awarded an ITF grant with project title "MyGPTShield: A Personalized Privacy-Preserving Prompt Service for Large Generative AI ...

(New 2025!) Multiple PhD students, research assistants, and postdocs wanted

I have openings for 3+ PhD students (2025 in-take), and 4+ research assistants/postdoc researchers (immediately available) in the field of ...

GRF Research Grant Awarded

A research project entitled "Right To Be Forgotten Made Easy: Machine Unlearning, Differential Privacy and Beyond" has been awarded by ...