I am a research group leader at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarland Informatics Campus.

My research mainly concentrates on privacy in the modern society. Topics include machine learning privacy, biomedical privacy, social network privacy, and location privacy. Besides, I also work on urban informatics/computing, social media analysis, and data mining.

From January 2017 to December 2018, I was a postdoc with Michael Backes at CISPA. Prior to that, I obtained my Ph.D. degree from University of Luxembourg on November 2016 under the supervision of Sjouke Mauw and Jun Pang. I obtained my bachelor (2009) and master (2012) degrees from Shandong University, China.

What’s New

• One paper titled “How to Prove Your Model Belongs to You: A Blind-Watermark based Framework to Protect Intellectual Property of DNN” got accepted in ACSAC 2019!
• I will be a lecturer at the InForSec summer school from July 15th to 16th at Southeast University, Nanjing.
• I will be a lecturer at the “Let’s GoSSIP” summer school from July 20th to 24th at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai.
• One paper titled “Fairwalk: Towards Fair Graph Embedding” got accepted in IJCAI 2019. See you in Macao!
• I will join the TPC of Socinfo 2019 and TPC of PPML!
• Our new technical report on data set inference and reconstruction attacks in the online learning setting is online.
• I will join the TPC of PETS 2020!
• Our paper “MBeacon: Privacy-Preserving Beacons for DNA Methylation Data” got distinguished paper award at NDSS 2019!
• My solo-auhtored paper “Language in Our Time: An Empirical Analysis of Hashtags” got accepted in WWW 2019 as an oral presentation! See you in San Francisco!
• I will join the TPC of ISMB/ECCB 2019!
• I will join the TPC of CCS 2019!