Lei Zhang

Ph.D. student / Research Assistant, CSIS, GMU

Research

My supervisors: Dr. Sushil Jajodia and Dr. Alexander Brodsky.

Major Area: Information Security / Privacy

Research Interests:  My research interest lies in information sharing and information disclosure, with the focus on the framework for benefit-risk based information sharing/disclosure, the desired privacy properties and how to guarantee such properties while optimizing the data utility of the disclosure.

List of Publications (Ph.D. Thesis Related)

· Lei Zhang, Lingyu Wang, Sushil Jajodia, Alexander Brodsky.

"L-Cover: Preserving Diversity by Anonymity"

Secure Data Management 2009: 158-171

· Lei Zhang, Lingyu Wang, Sushil Jajodia, Alexander Brodsky.

"Exclusive Strategy for Generalization Algorithms in Micro-Data Disclosure"

Proc. 22nd IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security,2008

· Lei Zhang, Alexander Brodsky, Vipin Swarup, Sushil Jajodia.

"A Framework for Maximizing Utility of Sanitized Documents Based on Meta-labeling"

Proc. 9th IEEE Policy 2008

· Lei Zhang, Sushil Jajodia, Alexander Brodsky.

"Simulatable Binding: Beyond Simulatable Auditing"

Secure Data Management 2008: 16-31

· Lei Zhang, Sushil Jajodia, Alexander Brodsky.

"Information disclosure under realistic assumptions: Privacy versus Optimality"

Proc. 14th ACM Conf. on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2007

· Alexander Brodsky, Lei Zhang, Sushil Jajodia.

"Answering queries based on imprecision and uncertainty trade-offs in numeric databases"

Secure Data Management 2007: 81-95.(81-95), 2007.

· Lei Zhang, Alexander Brodsky, Sushil Jajodia.

"Toward information sharing:  benefit and risk access control (BARAC)" 

Proc. 7th IEEE Policy 2006

Publications in other interested areas

· Mauro Conti, Lei Zhang, Sankardas Roy, Roberto Di Pietro, Sushil Jajodia, Luigi V. Mancini.

"Privacy-preserving robust data aggregation in wireless sensor networks"

Security and Communication Networks 2(2): 195-213 (2009)

· Daoshun Wang, Lei Zhang, Ning Ma, Xiaobo Li.

"Two secret sharing schemes based on Boolean operations"

Pattern Recognition,  Volume 40, Issue 10(2776-2785),October, 2007.

· Wei Li, Lingyu Wang, Bo Zhu, and Lei Zhang.

“An Integrity Lock Architecture for Supporting Distributed Authorizations in Database Federations"

Proc. IFIP SEC 2008.

· Daoshun Wang, Jinghong Liang, Lei Zhang, Yiqi Dai.

"Evaluation based on invisible watermarking system"

Proceedings of SPIE (Volume 5241), November 2003, pp. 202-210

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