Yuan Hong I am a Ph. D candidate at Management Science and Information Systems (MSIS) department, Rutgers University under the Supervision of Prof. Jaideep Vaidya. I am interested in the research of information security, data privacy and data mining. Address: One Washington Park, Rutgers Business School-1021A, Newark, NJ 07102 Email: yhong AT cimic.rutgers.edu, My Latest [CV], My [Google Scholar].

Research Interests

• Security and Privacy in Distributed and Cloud Computing, particularly in Optimization and Data Mining

• Data Privacy (anonymization, differential privacy)

• Miscellaneous Topics in Security & Privacy: Applied Cryptography, Incentive Compatibility, Role Engineering, Security and Privacy in Healthcare Systems

• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Education

• Ph. D in Information Technology, Rutgers Business School -- Newark and New Brunswick, USA, 09/2008 - 05/2013 (expected)
  • Advisor: Dr. Jaideep Vaidya

• M.Sc in Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2008
  • Advisors: Dr. Rachida Dssouli and Dr. Lingyu Wang

• B.Sc in Management Information Systems, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, 2004

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• 1. Yuan Hong, Jaideep Vaidya, and Haibing Lu, Secure and Efficient Distributed Linear Programming, Journal of Computer Security (JCS), accepted, 2012.

• 2. Haibing Lu, Jaideep Vaidya, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, and Yuan Hong, Constraint-Aware Role Mining Via Extended Boolean Matrix Decomposition, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Special Issue on Data & Application Security, accepted, 2012.

under review or revision (Journal Articles)

• 1. Yuan Hong and Jaideep Vaidya, Secure Transformation for Distributed Linear Programming.

• 2. Yuan Hong and Jaideep Vaidya, An Inference-proof Approach to Privacy-preserving Horizontally Partitioned Linear Program.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS

• 1. Danish Mehmood, Basit Shafiq, Jaideep Vaidya, Yuan Hong, Nabil Adam and Vijay Atluri, Privacy Preserving Subgraph Discovery, in Proceedings of the 26th Annual IFIP WG 1.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSEC '12), July 11-13, 2012, Paris, France.

• 2. Yuan Hong, Jaideep Vaidya, Haibing Lu, and Mingrui Wu, Differentially Private Search Log Sanitization with Optimal Output Utility, in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT '12), March 26-30, 2012, Berlin, Germany. (Acceptance Rate: 22.5%)

• 3. Yuan Hong, Jaideep Vaidya, Haibing Lu, and Basit Shafiq, Privacy-preserving Tabu Search for Distributed Graph Coloring, in Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT '11), October 9-11, 2011, MIT, Boston, USA. (Acceptance Rate: 8%)

• 4. Yuan Hong, Jaideep Vaidya, and Haibing Lu, Search Engine Query Clustering using Top-k Search Results, in Proceedings of the 10th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI '11), August 22-27, 2011, Lyon, France. (Acceptance Rate: 20.5%)

• 5. Yuan Hong, Jaideep Vaidya, and Haibing Lu, Efficient Distributed Linear Programming with Limited Disclosure, in Proceedings of the 25th Annual IFIP WG 1.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSEC '11), July 11-13, 2011, Richmond, Virginia, USA.

• 6. Haibing Lu, Jaideep Vaidya, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, and Yuan Hong, Extended Boolean Matrix Decomposition, in Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '09), December 6-9,2009, Miami, Florida, USA. (Acceptance Rate: 8.9%)

• 7. Yuan Hong, Xiaoyun He, Jaideep Vaidya, Nabil Adam, and Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Effective Anonymization of Query Logs, in Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '09), November 2-6, 2009, Hong Kong, China. (Acceptance Rate: 20.2%)

• 8. Yuan Hong, Shuo Lu, Qian Liu, Lingyu Wang, and Rachida Dssouli,  Preserving Privacy in e-Health Systems using Hippocratic Databases, in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2008), July 28-August 1, 2008, Turku, Finland.

• 9. Qian Liu, Shuo Lu, Yuan Hong, Lingyu Wang, and Rachida Dssouli,  Securing Tele-health Applications in a Web-based e-Health Portal, in Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2008), March 4-7, 2008, Barcelona, Spain.

• 10. Yuan Hong, Shuo Lu, Qian Liu, Lingyu Wang, and Rachida Dssouli,  A Hierarchical Approach to the Specification of Privacy Preferences, in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IEEE, Nov. 2007.

• 11. Shuo Lu, Yuan Hong, Qian Liu, Lingyu Wang, and Rachida Dssouli, Access Control in e-Health Portal Systems, in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IEEE, Nov. 2007.

THESIS, PRE-PRINTS AND TECHNICAL REPORTS

• 1. Differentially Private Search Log Sanitization with Optimal Output Utility, Computing Research Repository (Corr), August 2011.

• 2. Preserving Privacy in Web-based e-Health Systems, Master Thesis, Concordia University, 2008.

• 3. Implementing Web-based e-Health Portal Systems, Concordia University, 2007.
  

Teaching

• Instructor, Management Information Systems (29:623:220), Rutgers University, Spring 2012.

Awards and Honors

• Dissertation Fellowship, Rutgers University, 2012

• Dean's Research Fund, Rutgers Business School, 2009, 2010, 2012

• Student Travel Grant, 2009, 2011

• Renmin Scholarship, Beijing Institute of Technology, 2000-2004

• Third Prize, National Olympiad Contest in Physics, China, 2000

Academic Activities

• Program Committee: IEEE 13th International Multi-topic Conference (INMIC 2009)

• External Journal Reviewer: Elsevier Computers & Security, Journal of Computer Security.

• External Conference Paper Reviewer
  • The ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY) -- '12
  • The ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)-- '12, '10
  • The European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) -- '11, '08
  • The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) -- '11, '09
  • The Annual WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (DBSEC) -- '10
  • The International Information Security Conference (SEC) -- '08

Working Experience

• 09/2008 - present, Research/Teaching Assistant at Rutgers University, USA

• 09/2005 - 06/2008, Research Assistant at Concordia University, Canada

• 07/2004 - 07/2005, Software Engineer at AVIC Automotive Electronics R&D Center, China