Nan Zhang

Selected Recent Publications

2017

• A. Asudeh, A. Nazi, N. Zhang, G. Das, Efficient Computation of Regret-ratio Minimizing Set: A Compact Maxima Representative, Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2017.
• M. F. Rahman, W. Liu, S. Bin Suhaim, S. Thirumuruganathan, N. Zhang and G. Das, HDBSCAN: Density based Clustering over Location Based Services, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2017.
• S. Bin Suhaim, N. Zhang, G. Das and A. Jaoua, HDBExpDetector: Aggregate Sudden-Change Detector over Dynamic Web Databases, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), System Demonstration, 2017.

2016

• A. Asudeh, N. Zhang, G. Das, Query Reranking As A Service, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (VLDB), 2016.
• A. Asudeh, S. Thirumuruganathan, N. Zhang, G. Das, Discovering the Skyline of Web Databases, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (VLDB), 2016.
• L. O'Neill, F. Dexter, N. Zhang, The Risks to Patient Privacy from Publishing Data from Clinical Anesthesia Studies, Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2016. [press release] [cover art "... not so much that patients live behind the questionably opaque curtain of data, rather they are the data"]
• M. Farhad Rahman, S. Bin Suhaim, W. Liu, S. Thirumuruganathan, N. Zhang, G. Das, ANALOC: Efficient ANAlytics over LOCation Based Services, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), System Demonstration, 2016.
• Z. Zhou, N. Zhang, Z. Gong, G. Das, Faster Random Walks By Rewiring Online Social Networks On-The-Fly, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 40(4), Article No. 26, 2016.
• H. Yan, Z. Gong, N. Zhang, T. Huang, H. Zhong, J. Wei, Crawling Hidden Objects with kNN Queries, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 28(4), pp.912-924, 2016.
• X. Pan, Z. Ling, A. Pingley, W. Yu, N. Zhang, K. Ren, X. Fu, Password Extraction via Reconstructed Wireless Mouse Trajectory, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 13(4), pp. 461-473, 2016. [news report]

2015

• Y. Lu, S. Thirumuruganathan, N. Zhang, G. Das, Hidden Database Research and Analytics (HYDRA) System, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 38(3), 2015.
• W. Liu, M. Farhad Rahman, S. Thirumuruganathan, N. Zhang, and G. Das, Aggregate Estimations over Location Based Services, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (VLDB), 2015.
• M. Farhad Rahman, W. Liu, S. Thirumuruganathan, N. Zhang, and G. Das, Privacy Implications of Database Ranking, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (VLDB), 2015.
• Z. Zhou, N. Zhang, and G. Das, Leveraging History for Faster Sampling of Online Social Networks, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (VLDB), 2015.
• A. Nazi, Z. Zhou, S. Thirumuruganathan, N. Zhang, and G. Das, Walk, Not Wait: Faster Sampling Over Online Social Networks, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (VLDB), 2015.
• Y. Alsarkal, Y. Zhou, N. Zhang, Linking Virtual and Real-World Identities, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), 2015. (1 of 5 nominated for the Best Paper Award)
• A. Nazi, S. Thirumuruganathan, V. Hristidis, N. Zhang, G. Das, Answering Complex Queries in an Online Community Network, Proceedings of the Intl AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2015.
• H. Yan, Z. Gong, N. Zhang, T. Huang, H. Zhong, J. Wei, Aggregate Estimation in Hidden Databases with Checkbox Interfaces, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 27(5), pp. 1192-1204, 2015.
• H. Huang, R. C. Chiang, S. Rajasekaran, N. Zhang, Swiper: Exploiting Virtual Machine Vulnerability in Third-Party Clouds with Competition for I/O Resources, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 26(6), pp. 1732-1742, 2015.

2014

• W. Liu, S. Thirumuruganathan, N. Zhang, and G. Das, Aggregate Estimation Over Dynamic Hidden Web Databases, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (VLDB), 2014.
• W. Liu, S. Bin Suhaim, S. Thirumuruganathan, N. Zhang, G. Das, and A. Jaoua, HDBTracker: Aggregate Tracking and Monitoring Over Dynamic Web Databases, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (VLDB), System Demonstration, 2014.
• S. Thirumuruganathan, N. Zhang, Vagelis Hristidis, and G. Das, Aggregate Estimation Over a Microblog Platform, Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Intl Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2014.
• N. Zhang and G. Das, Exploration and Mining of Web Repositories, ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Tutorial, 2014. [tutorial slides]
• H. Li, X. Cheng, K. Li, C. Hu, N. Zhang, W. Xue, Robust Collaborative Spectrum Sensing Schemes for Cognitive Radio Networks, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 25(8), pp. 2190-2200, 2014.
• N. Zhang, C. Li, N. Hassan, S. Rajasekaran, G. Das, On Skyline Groups, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 26(4), pp. 942-956, 2014.
• Q. Yang, J. Yang, W. Yu, D. An, N. Zhang, W. Zhao, On False Data Injection Attacks against Power System State Estimation: Modeling and Countermeasures, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 25(3), pp. 717-729, 2014.

Please see my dblp ❐ page for other publications.