Brief Bio:
Dr. Hui (wendy) Wang is a tenure-track assistant professor of Computer Science Department of the Stevens Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. from University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Research Interests: 

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

• Spring 2013: Opearting system (CS492), Advanced database management system (CS609)
• Fall 2012: Database management system (CS442)
• Spring 2012: Operating System (CS492), Advanced Database management system (CS609)
• Fall 2011: Database management system (CS442)
• Spring 2011: Operating system (CS492)
• Fall 2010: Database management system (CS442)
• Fall 2009: Database management system (CS442)
• Spring 2009: Operating System (CS492)
• Fall 2008: Advanced Database Management System (CS810E)
• Spring 2008: Operating System (CS492)

• Journal
  • Hongbo Liu, Hui Wang, Yingying Chen, Dayong Jia. Defending against Frequency-based Attacks on Distributed Data Storage in Wireless Networks. Transactions on Sensor Networks. In press.
  • Xiaoying Wu, Dimitri Theodoratos, Wendy Hui Wang , Timos Sellis. Optimizing XML Queries: Bitmapped Materialized Views vs. Indexes. Information Systems. In press.
  • Xiuyuan Zheng, Yingying Chen, Hui Wang , Hongbo Liu, Ruilin Liu, Neighborhood Prediction Based Decentralized Key Management for Mobile Wireless Networks, Wireless Networks (WINET), in press.
  • Fosca Giannotti, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Anna Monreale, Dino Pedreschi, Hui (Wendy) Wang , "Privacy-preserving Mining of Association Rules from Outsourced Transaction Databases in Clouds", IEEE Systems Journal, in press.
  • Juan Li, Hui Wang , Samee Ullah Khan, Qingrui Li, Albert Y. Zomaya, "A Fully Distributed Scheme for Disceroy of Semantic Relationships", Transactions on Services Computing (Impact factor: 3.7 (2011)), in press.
  • Juan Li, Hui Wang , Samee U. Khan, "A Semantics-Based Approach to Large-Scale Mobile Social Networking", in Journal of Mobile Networks and Applications (Impact factor: 1.013 (2009)), Volume 17, Issue (2) (2012), Page 192-205.
  • Ruilin LIu, Xiuyuan Zheng, Hongbo Liu, Hui Wang , Yingying Chen, "Metadata-guided evaluation of resource-constrained queries in content caching based wireless networks", Wireless networks: Volum 17, Issue 8 (2011), Page 1833-1850.
  • Francesco Bonchi, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Hui Wendy Wang , "Trajectory Anonymity in Publishing Personal Mobility Data", SIGKDD Exploration, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2011.
  • Hui Wang , Ruilin Liu, "Privacy-Preserving Publishing Microdata with Full Functional Dependencies", in Journal of Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) (Impact Factor: 1.745 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.036). [pdf], Volume 70, Issue 3, March, 2011
  • Yingying Chen, Hui Wang , Xiuyuan Zheng, and Jie Yang, "A Reinforcement Learning-Based Framework for Prediction of Near Likely Nodes in Data-Centric Mobile Wireless Networks", in EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2010, Article ID 319275, June 2010.
  • Hui Wang , "Privacy-preserving data publishing in cloud computing", Vol.25, No. 3, May 2010, Journal of Computer Science and Technology. [pdf]
  • 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. [pdf]
• Conferences
  • Boxiang Dong, Ruilin Liu, Wendy Hui Wang , Result Integrity Verification of Outsourced Frequent Itemset Mining. The 27th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, Newark, NJ, July 15 -17, 2013.
  • Anna Monreale, Wendy Hui Wang , Francesca Pratesi, Salvatore Rinzivillo, Dino Pedreschi, Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko, Privacy-preserving Distributed Movement Data Aggregation, 16th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 14-17 May 2013, Leuven, Belgium.
  • Ruilin Liu, Hui (Wendy) Wang , Philippos Mordohai, Hui Xiong. Integrity Verification of K-means Clustering Outsourced to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Providers. 2013 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), May 2 - 4, 2013, Austi, Texas, USA.
  • Flip Korn, Ruilin Liu, Hui Wang . Understanding Data Completeness in Network Monitoring Systems (Full paper; 10.7% acceptance rate for 756 submissions). The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Dec 10 - 13, 2012.
  • Hui wang , Integrity Verification of Cloud-hosted Data Analytics Computations, VLDB Cloud Intelligence workshop, August 27 -31, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Ruilin Liu, Hui Wang , Anna Monreale, Dino Pedreschi, Fosca Giannotti, WengeGuo, "AUDIO: An Integrity Auditing Framework of Outlier-mining-as-a-service Systems", The Euopean Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovry in Databases (ECML/PKDD), (acceptance ratio: 109/443=23%), September 24 - 28, 2012, Bristol, UK.
  • Fosca Giannotti, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Anna Monreale, Dino Pedreschi, Wendy Hui Wang : Privacy-preserving Mining of Association Rules from Outsourced Transaction Databases. Twentieth Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD): 233-242. June 24 - 27, 2012, Venice, Italy.
  • Qingrui Li, Juan Li, Hui Wang , Ashok Ginjala, "Semantics-enhanced Privacy Recommendation for Social Networking Sites", The 10th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom 11), Changsha, China, November 16-18, 2011.
  • Hui Wang , Ruilin Liu, Dimitri Theodoratos and Xiaoying Wu, "Efficient Storage and Temporal Query Evaluation in Hierarchical Data Archiving Systems", 23rd Scientific and Statistical Database Management Conference (SSDBM'11), July 20-22, 2011, Portland, OR, USA
  • Xiuyuan Zheng, Hui Wang, Yingying Chen, Hongbo Liu, Ruilin Liu, "A Decentralized Key Management Scheme via Neighborhood Prediction in Mobile Wireless Networks", the 7th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2010), acceptance ratio: 51/185=0.28), Nov. 8-12, 2010, San Francisco, CA. [pdf]
  • Angela Bonifati, Hui Wang, Ruilin Liu, "SPAC: A Distributed, Peer-to-Peer, Secure and Privacy-aware Social Space", the 19th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'10), Demo track, Oct. 26 - 30, 2010, Toronto, Canada.
  • Angela Bonifati, Hui Wang, Ruilin Liu, "Distributed and Secure Access Control in P2P Databases", the 24th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security (DBSec), June 21 - 23, 2010, Rome, Italy. [pdf]
  • Hongbo Liu, Hui Wang, Yingying Chen, "Ensuring Data Storage Security against Frequency-based Attacks in Wireless Networks", The 6th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '10), June 21 - 23, 2010, Santa Barbara, California. [pdf]
  • Juan Li, Hui Wang, "Distributed Discovery of Semantic Relationships", IEEE International Workshop on Knowledge Management for Future Services and Networks (KMFSAN), April 23, 2010, Osaka, Japan. [pdf]
  • Chih-Cheng Chang, Brian Thompson, Hui Wang, Danfeng Yao, "Towards Publishing Recommendation Data With Predictive Anonymization", ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), April 13-16, 2010, Beijing, China (Acceptance ratio: 25/166=0.15). [pdf]
  • Hui Wang, Ruilin Liu, "Privacy-Preserving Publishing Data with Full Functional Dependencies", International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), April 1-4, 2010, Tsukuba, Japan (Acceptance ratio: 55/237=0.23). [pdf]
  • Fosca Giannotti, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Anna Monreale, Dino Pedreschi, Hui Wang, "Privacy-preserving Mining of Association Rules from Outsourced Transaction Databases" (position paper), the workshop on Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing (SPCC2010), in conjunction with the international conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection, January, 2010, Brussels, Belgium. [pdf]
  • Hui Wang, Ruilin Liu, Xiuyuan Zheng, Yingying Chen, Hongbo Liu, "To Do or Not to Do: Metadata-guided Query Evaluation in Content Caching Networks", IEEE Globecom, Nov. 30 - Dec. 4, 2009, Hawaii, USA. [pdf]
  • Xiaoying Wu, Dimitri Theodoratos, Wendy Hui Wang, "Answering XML Queries Using Materialized Views Revisited", Full paper (acceptance ratio: 123/847 = 14.5%), The 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 2-6, 2009, Hong Kong, China. [pdf]
  • Yingying Chen, Hui Wang, Xiuyuan Zheng, Jie Yang, "Prediction of Near Likely Nodes in Data-Centric Mobile Wireless Networks", in Proceedings of IEEE MILCOM, Oct 18 - 21, 2009, Boston, USA. [pdf]
  • Ruilin Liu, Hui Wang. "Integrity Verification of Outsourced XML Databases". IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT-09)(Acceptance ratio: 15%). August 29-31, 2009, Vancouver, Canada. [pdf]
  • Brian Thompson, Chih-Cheng Chang, Hui Wang, Danfeng Yao. "Privacy-aware publishing of Netflix data". IEEE Security & Privacy Symposium, Oakland, May 17-20, 2009. Extended Abstract. [pdf]
  • 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, 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. [pdf]
  • 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] .
• 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. [pdf]

Professional Services and Activities:

• NSF panelist 2009
• Journal of Information Technology and Architecture, Editor-in-chief
• Conference Organizational Committee Member
  • SIGMOD 2013, Local Arrangements Chair
  • Track Chair, "Security, Dependability and Reliability in Grids and Clouds" track, IEEE International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC), 2011.
• Conference Program committee member :
  • 2011: PASSAT 2011, SKG 2011, Securware 2011, The First International Conference on Advances in Information Mining and Management(IMMM 2011), International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing (KMIS) 2011, DBSec 2011, DEXA 2011, IDEAS 2011, ICDE 2011
  • 2010: The sixth International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG 2010), DEXA 2010, International Conferences on Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) 2010
  • 2009: 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,
  • 2008: ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008.
• External Reviewer: SDM'10, ICDE'10, 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 :
  • Concurrency and computation: practice and experience
  • Journal of Information Technology and Architecture
  • The VLDB Journal (VLDBJ)
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
  • Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS)
  • Journal of Information Technology and Architecture
  • 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 Adversarial Correlations", Security & Privacy Day, CUNY, May 20, 2011.
• "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.

• Ruilin Liu, Ph.D candidate,
• Boxiang Dong, Ph.D