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 and Data Mining (KDD 2025).
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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 2025)”. Our paper “Membership Inference Attacks and Defenses in Federated Learning: A Survey” is accepted by ACM Computing Surveys.
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 (RCPST) in September 2024. The aim of this center is to bridge between academic security and privacy research and real-life security and legal needs from smart system industries. For information, news, and events of this…
ITF Grant Awarded
I have been awarded an ITF grant with project title “MyGPTShield: A Personalized Privacy-Preserving Prompt Service for Large Generative AI Models”. The total amount is HK$2,000,010.
(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 machine learning, data security and privacy. The detailed requirements of PhD applicants are as follows: Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Information Engineering in well-known universities. Preferences are given to applicants…
GRF Research Grant Awarded
A research project entitled “Right To Be Forgotten Made Easy: Machine Unlearning, Differential Privacy and Beyond” has been awarded by Research Grant Council, HKSAR with HK$1,038,967 (2025-2027).
One Paper Accepted by VLDB 2024
Our paper “PriPL-Tree: Accurate Range Query for Arbitrary Distribution under Local Differential Privacy” has been accepted by International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2024).
Six Papers Accepted by IEEE ICDE 2024
Our following papers are accepted by IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE ’24), Utrecht, Netherlands, May 2024 as full research papers. Congratulations to all authors!
Serving on IEEE TIFS Editorial Board
I start to serve as an associate editor on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS).
One Paper Accepted by PVLDB 2024
Our paper “DPSUR: Accelerating Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent Using Selective Update and Release” has been accepted by PVLDB 2024.