Dear TCCN fellow members, 

Please find the details of the fifth virtual seminar.

Time and date: EDT 9:00am-10:00am, Wednesday, 18 November 2020

Venue: online registration via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-webinar-secure-computation-with-privacy-preservation-for-cps-tickets-125578208803

Title: Secure Computation with Privacy Preservation for Cyber Physical System Applications

Presenter:  Professor Zhu Han, University of Houston, USA

Abstract: Cyber Physical System (CPS) have infiltrated into many areas such as aerospace, automobiles, chemical processing, civil infrastructure, energy, healthcare, transportation, entertainment, and consumer appliances due to their tight integration of computation and networking capabilities to monitor and control the underlying systems. Many domains of CPS such as smart metering, sensor/data aggregation, crowd sensing, traffic control etc., typically collect huge amounts of individual information for data analysis and decision making, therefore privacy is a serious concern in CPS. Most of the traditional approaches protect the privacy of individual’s data by employing trusted third parties or entities for data collection and computation. An important challenge in these large-scale distributed applications is how to protect the privacy of the participants during computation and decision making, especially when such third party entities are untrusted. Considering various CPS applications involving modeling, we first discuss on utilizing applied cryptographic techniques for privacy preserving secure computation. Then we focus on the differential privacy based secure computation that guarantees individual privacy in presence of untrusted third party entities. Since confidential information must not be inappropriately released, and the use of untrusted information must not corrupt trusted computation and the utility. This talk concludes by focusing on the development of such tools for state-of-the-art applications by considering application-specific information security requirements.

Bio:  Zhu Han received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, in 1997, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. From 2000 to 2002, he was an R&D Engineer of JDSU, Germantown, Maryland. From 2003 to 2006, he was a Research Associate at the University of Maryland. From 2006 to 2008, he was an assistant professor in Boise State University, Idaho. Currently, he is a John and Rebecca Moores Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department as well as Computer Science Department at University of Houston, Texas. His research interests include security, wireless resource allocation and management, wireless communication and networking, game theory, and wireless multimedia. Dr. Han is an NSF CAREER award recipient 2010. Dr. Han has several IEEE conference best paper awards, and winner of 2011 IEEE Fred W. Ellersick Prize, 2015 EURASIP Best Paper Award for the Journal on Advances in Signal Processing and 2016 IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the field of Communication Systems (Best Paper Award for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications). Dr. Han is the winner 2021 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award. He has been IEEE fellow since 2014, AAAS fellow since 2020 and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer from 2015 to 2018. Dr. Han is 1% highly cited researcher according to Web of Science since 2017.


Best regards,
Yue Gao
Chair, Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN)