Brief Bio:
Dr. Hui Wang joined the Computer Science Department of the Stevens Institute of Technology in 2008. She received her Ph.D. from University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Research Interests: 

• Database privacy/security
• Semi-structured (XML) Database
• Data mining
• Data management on networks

• Spring 2009: Operating System (CS492)
• Fall 2008: Advanced Database Management System (CS810E)
• Spring 2008: Operating System (CS492)

• Conferences
  • Ruilin Liu, Hui Wang. "Integrity Verification of Outsourced XML Databases". Symposium on Secure Computing, IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT-09)(Acceptance ratio: 15%). August 29-31, 2009, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Brian Thompson, Chih-Cheng Chang, Hui Wang, Danfeng Yao. "Poster: Privacy-aware publishing of Netflix data". IEEE Security & Privacy Symposium, Oakland, May 17-20, 2009.
  • Wendy Hui Wang, Ruilin Liu, "Hiding Distinguished Ones into Crowd: Privacy-Preserving Publishing Data with Outliers", the 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Saint-Petersburg, Russia, March 23-26, 2009 (Average acceptance ratio: 16%). [pdf]
  • Roman Yarovoy, Francesco Bonchi, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Wendy Hui Wang, "Anonymizing Moving Objects: How to Hide a MOB in a Crowd?", the 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Saint-Petersburg, Russia, March 23-26, 2009 (Average acceptance ratio: 16%). [pdf]
  • Hui Wang, "Ambiguity: Hide the Presence of Individuals and Their Privacy with Low Information Loss", the 14th International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD), Mumbai, India, Dec 17 - 19, 2008 (acceptance ratio: 38%). [pdf]
  • Hui Wang, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, "Probabilistic Privacy Analysis of Published Views", Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), CCS, Alexandria, VA USA, Oct. 2006.
  • Hui Wang, Laks V.S Lakshmanan, Efficient Secure Query Evaluation over Encrypted XML Database. VLDB'06. [pdf] .
  • Laks V.S Lakshmanan, Hui Wang, Jessica Zheng Zhao, "Answering Tree Pattern Queries Using Views". VLDB'06. [pdf] .
  • Laks V.S Lakshmanan, Ganesh Ramesh, Hui Wang, Jessica Zheng Zhao, "Testing Satisfiability of Tree Pattern Queries". VLDB'04. [pdf] .
• Journal
  • Nicolas Bruno, Hui Wang, "The Threshold Algorithm: from Middleware Systems to the Relational Engine", IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Volume 19, No. 4, April 2007.
• Book Chapter
  • Hui Wang, Divesh Srivastava, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Sungran Cho, Sihem Amer-Yahia, "Optimizing Tree Pattern Queries over Secure XML Databases", Book "Security in Decentralized Data Management", Springer, 2006.

Professional Services and Activities:

• NSF panelist 2009
• Program committee member : DEXA 2010, International Conferences on Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) 2010, International conference on digital information management (ICDIM 2009), ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2009, International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM), 2009, International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2009, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2009, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008.
• External Reviewer: International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'09), VLDB'09, The IEEE International Conference on Information Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT) 2009
• Journal Reviewer :
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
  • Journal of Information Systems
  • Journal of Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE),
  • Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS)

• "Privacy-Preserving Publishing Data with Outliers", Invited talk, NJIT, NJ, April 15, 2009.
• "Privacy-Preserving Publishing Data with Outliers", Invited talk, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, Mar 31, 2009.
• "Privacy-Preserving Publishing Data with Outliers", the 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), St. Petersburg, Russia, Mar 26, 2009.
• "Hiding Distinguished Ones into Crowd: Privacy-Preserving Publishing Data with Outliers", Invited talk, Rutgers University, Nov 14, 2008.
• "Security and Efficiency of Outsourced XML Databases", Security & Privacy Day, May 30, 2008.