Tiancheng Li PhD Candidate Department of Computer Science Purdue University Mailing Address     Purdue University     Department of Computer Science     305 N. University Street     West Lafayette, IN 47907 Email li83 [at] cs.purdue.edu Phone 1-765-586-7289 CV [PDF][PS]

I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. I am a member of CERIAS. My advisor is Prof. Ninghui Li, who is also the chair of my advisory committee. Other members of my advisory committee are Prof. Elisa Bertino and Prof. Chris Clifton.

News

• (January 2010) Job Application: [CV] [Research Statement] [Teaching Statement] [Research Projects]
• (December 2009) I received the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School of Purdue University.
• (September 2009) I attended ESORICS 2009 and presented our wormseal paper in Saint Malo, France.
• (September 2009) Our slicing paper is now available online.
• (September 2009) Our outsourcing paper is accepted by ICDM 2009.
• (August 2009) I spent the summer of 2009 in AT&T Labs - Research, working with Graham Cormode and Divesh Srivastava.
• (June 2009) I attended SIGKDD 2009 and presented our privacy paper in Paris, France.
• (April 2009) I attended ICDE 2009 and presented our privacy paper in Shanghai, China.

Research Interests

• Data privacy & security.
• Secure database outsourcing.
• Secure data retention for regulatory compliance.
• Role mining for role-based access control systems.

Here is a detailed description of my research projects.

Recently, I have been working on security and privacy issues in data publishing, bioinformatics, cloud computing, and social networks.

Selected Publications (Full List, DBLP)

• [Paper in PDF] On the (In)Security and (Im)Practicality of Outsourcing Precise Association Rule Mining
  Ian Molloy, Ninghui Li, and Tiancheng Li
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Miami, Florida, 2009.

• [Paper in PDF] WORM-SEAL: Trustworthy Data Retention and Verification for Regulatory Compliance
  Tiancheng Li, Xiaonan Ma, and Ninghui Li
  In Proceedings of the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), pp. 472-488, Saint Malo, France, 2009.

• [Paper in PDF] On the Tradeoff Between Privacy and Utility in Data Publishing
  Tiancheng Li and Ninghui Li
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), pp. 517-526, Paris, France, 2009.

• [Paper in PDF] Modeling and Integrating Background Knowledge in Data Anonymization
  Tiancheng Li, Ninghui Li, and Jian Zhang
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 6-17, Shanghai, China, 2009.

• [Paper in PDF] Injector: Mining Background Knowledge for Data Anonymization
  Tiancheng Li and Ninghui Li
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 446-455, Cancun, Mexico, 2008.

• [Paper in PDF] t-Closeness: Privacy Beyond k-Anonymity and l-Diversity
  Ninghui Li, Tiancheng Li, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 106-115, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007.
  

Teaching

• CS 426: Computer Security, Spring 2007.
• CS 483: Theory of Computation, Fall 2006.
• CS 381: Analysis of Algorithms, Fall 2006.

Professional Services

• PC member: ACM International Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS (SPRINGL 2009)
• Journal reviewer: TODS (2008), VLDB Journal (2009), TKDE (2008,2009), TKDD (2009)
• External reviewer: SIGMOD (2007, 2008), VLDB (2008, 2009), ICDE (2008)
• External reviewer: S&P (2007, 2008), CCS (2006, 2009), WWW (2009)

Last modified on December 20, 2009