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Zhilin Zhang (张志林)

Ph.D. in Computing Science

Data Scientist, Amazon

8888 University Drive, Burnaby
British Columbia V5A 1S6

Email:

zhilinz@sfu.ca

Resume:

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Brief Biography and Research Interest

I received my PhD in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University in July 2019. During my PhD studies, I was advised by Prof. Ke Wang. I obtained my B.E. (2009) and M.E. (2012) both in Computer Science from Xidian Univeristy.

My research interests lie in Cloud Security and Data Science. For the former, my work focuses on practical solutions to enable computing over encrypted data, such as data searching, retrieval and shuffling on ciphertexts. For the latter, my work involves interpretation in social netwroks and recommendation systems, unsupervised learning, and learning tasks with privacy concerns.

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Publications

2020	Privacy-preserving Feature Extraction via Adversarial Training Xiaofeng Ding, Hongbiao Fang, Zhilin Zhang, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Hai Jin IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) [pdf] Towards Secure and Efficient Equality Conjunction Search over Outsourced Databases Weipeng Lin, Ke Wang, Zhilin Zhang, Ada Wai-Chee Fu, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Cheng Long, Chunyan Miao IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing [pdf]
2019	Repeatable Oblivious Shuffling of Large Outsourced Data Blocks Zhilin Zhang, Ke Wang, Weipeng Lin, Ada Wai-Chee Fu, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong 10th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC'19) [pdf] Practical Access Pattern Privacy by Combining PIR and Oblivious Shuffle Zhilin Zhang, Ke Wang, Weipeng Lin, Ada Wai-Chee Fu, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'19) [pdf] Enhanced Privacy Preserving Group Nearest Neighbor Search Yuncheng Wu, Ke Wang, Ruoyang Guo, Zhilin Zhang, Dan Zhao, Hong Chen, Cuiping Li IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) [pdf] Class Indistinguishability for Outsourcing Equality Conjunction Search Weipeng Lin, Ke Wang, Zhilin Zhang, Ada Wai-Chee Fu, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Cheng Long 10th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD'19) [pdf] Spiral of Silence in Recommender Systems Dugang Liu, Chen Lin, Zhilin Zhang, Yanghua Xiao, Hanghang Tong 12th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'19) [pdf]
2018	Secure Top-k Inner Product Retrieval Zhilin Zhang, Ke Wang, Chen Lin, Weipeng Lin 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'18) [pdf] [ppt] [code] Privacy Preserving Group Nearest Neighbor Search Yunchen Wu, Ke Wang, Zhilin Zhang, Weipeng Lin, Hong Chen, Cuiping Li 21st International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'18) [pdf] α-Approximation Density-based Clustering of Multi-valued Objects Zhilin Zhang arXiv ePrint [pdf]
2017	Revisiting Security Risks of Asymmetric Scalar Product Preserving Encryption and Its Variants Weipeng Lin, Ke Wang, Zhilin Zhang, Hong Chen 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'17) [pdf]
2015	Finding the Hidden Hands: A Case Study of Detecting Organized Posters and Promoters in SINA Weibo Xiang Wang, Zhilin Zhang, Xiang Yu, Yan Jia, Bin Zhou, Shasha Li China Communications (2015) [pdf]
2014	Use of Ontology and Cluster Ensembles for Geospatial Clustering Analysis Wei Gu, Zhilin Zhang, Baijie Wang, Xin Wang 27th Canadian Artificial Intelligence Conference (AI'14) [pdf]
2011	Control Traffic Analysis of On-Demand Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks Zhilin Zhang, Yu Zhang 2st International Conference on Networking and Distributed Computing (ICNDC'11) [pdf] SEERDIS: A DHT-based Resource Indexing and Discovery Scheme for the Data Center Zhilin Zhang, Junying Zhang, Qiuyan Huo, Jingyu Chen, Xuezhou Xu 19th High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC'11) [pdf]

Professional Activities

Session Chair

Cloud and Distributed Systems of CLOUD 2019

PC Member

AMLC'20
IJCAI'20
OSWD'16

Journal Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Information Processing and Management

External Reviewer

PAKDD'13, TKDE'13,PAKDD'14, SDM'14, BigData'14, KDD'15, VLDB'18

Teaching

I am/was a teaching assistant in the following courses:

Special Topics in Database Systems (CMPT 459): 2017
Operating Systems I (CMPT 300): 2016, 2019
Web-based Information Systems (CMPT 470): 2016
Introduction to Computing Science and Programming II (CMPT 125): 2015.

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Brief Biography and Research Interest

Publications

2020

Privacy-preserving Feature Extraction via Adversarial Training

Towards Secure and Efficient Equality Conjunction Search over Outsourced Databases

2019

Repeatable Oblivious Shuffling of Large Outsourced Data Blocks

Practical Access Pattern Privacy by Combining PIR and Oblivious Shuffle

Enhanced Privacy Preserving Group Nearest Neighbor Search

Class Indistinguishability for Outsourcing Equality Conjunction Search

Spiral of Silence in Recommender Systems

2018

Secure Top-k Inner Product Retrieval

Privacy Preserving Group Nearest Neighbor Search

α-Approximation Density-based Clustering of Multi-valued Objects

2017

Revisiting Security Risks of Asymmetric Scalar Product Preserving Encryption and Its Variants

2015

Finding the Hidden Hands: A Case Study of Detecting Organized Posters and Promoters in SINA Weibo

2014

Use of Ontology and Cluster Ensembles for Geospatial Clustering Analysis

2011

Control Traffic Analysis of On-Demand Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

SEERDIS: A DHT-based Resource Indexing and Discovery Scheme for the Data Center