Education

Ph.D. in Progress, Computer Science, Texas A&M University. 2006.
Current Status: I have successfully defended my dissertation.
Dissertation Title: "Privacy-Preserving Data Mining" [Proposal Presentation]
Advisors: Dr. Wei Zhao and Dr. Jianer Chen.

B.S., Computer Science, Peking University, July 2001.

Selected Publications [DBLP]

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N. Zhang, W. Zhao, "Distributed Privacy Preserving Information Sharing," Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Pages 889-900, Trondheim, Norway, September 2005. (Acceptance rate: 16.5%) [pdf] [presentation] [abstract] [bibtex]

N. Zhang, S. Wang, W. Zhao, "A New Scheme on Privacy-Preserving Data Classification," Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Pages 374-383, Chicago, Illinois, August 2005. (Acceptance rate: 11.7%) [pdf] [presentation] [abstract] [bibtex]

N. Zhang, S. Wang, W. Zhao, "A New Scheme on Privacy Preserving Association Rule Mining," Proceedings of the European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD), Pages 484-495, Pisa, Italy, September 2004. (Acceptance rate: 14.5%) [pdf] [presentation] [abstract] [bibtex]