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(Students\/postdocs that I advised or co-advised are marked by *)<\/p>\n \n

Refereed Journals<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. Ian Miller*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Multi-Domain Expert Ensembles for Robust AI-Generated Text Detection with Backdoor-Aware Continual Learning”, IEEE Computer, 2026. (Impact Factor = 2.3)<\/li>\n
  2. Tyler Nicewarner*, Ali Allami*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Anonymous Task Assignment and Worker Payment in Mobile Crowdsensing”, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC<\/strong>), 2026.<\/li>\n
  3. Tyler Nicewarner*, Aniruddha Gokhale,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Provable Privacy Guarantee for Individual Identities and Locations in Large-Scale Contact Tracing”, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC<\/strong>), 2025. (Impact Factor = 7.5)<\/li>\n
  4. Chaoquan Cai*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Kannappan Palaniappan, and Chris Clifton, “Real-time Access Control for Background and Co-occurrence Image Privacy Protection”, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC<\/strong>), 2025. (Impact Factor = 5.1)<\/li>\n
  5. Alian Yu*, Jian Kang*, Wei Jiang,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Highly Efficient and Scalable Access Control Mechanism for IoT Devices in Pervasive Environments”, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC<\/strong>), 2024. (Impact Factor = 7.5)<\/li>\n
  6. Alian Yu*, Jian Kang*, Joshua Morris*, Elisa Bertino,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Fight Malware Like Malware: A New Defense Method Against Crypto Ransomware”, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC<\/strong>), 2024.<\/li>\n
  7. Ke Li*, Cameron Baird*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Defend Data Poisoning Attacks on Voice Authentication<\/a>“, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC<\/strong>), 2023. (Impact Factor = 7.329)<\/li>\n
  8. Chaoquan Cai*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Find Another Me Across the World – Large-scale Semantic Trajectory Analysis Using Spark<\/a>“, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE<\/strong>), 2022.\u00a0 (Impact Factor=6.977)<\/li>\n
  9. \n

    Jian Kang*, and\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Highly Efficient Traffic Planning for Autonomous Vehicles to Cross Intersections without a Stop<\/a>“, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS<\/strong>), 2022.\u00a0 (Impact Factor = 9.936)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  10. Tao Jiang, Bin Zhang,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Yunjun Gao, Qing Li, “Efficient parallel processing of high-dimensional spatial kNN queries”, Soft Computing, 2022. (Impact Factor=3.732)<\/li>\n
  11. \n

    Joshua Morris*, Sara Newman*, Kannappan Palaniappan, Jianping Fan, and\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Do You Know You Are Tracked by Photos That You Didn’t Take: Location-Aware Multi-Party Image Privacy Protection<\/a>“, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC<\/strong>), 2021. (Impact Factor = 7.329)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  12. \n

    Danlu Liu, Yu Li, William Baskett,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Chi-Ren Shyu, “RHPTree-Risk Hierarchical Pattern Tree for Scalable Long Pattern Mining”, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD<\/strong>), 2021. (Impact Factor = 2.01)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  13. \n

    Dalton Cole*, Sara Newman*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “A New Facial Authentication Pitfall and Remedy in Web Services<\/a>“, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC<\/strong>), 2021. (Impact Factor = 7.329)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  14. \n

    Tao Jiang, Bin Zhang,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Yunjun Gao, Li Qing, “Efficient column-oriented processing for mutual subspace skyline queries”, Soft Computing, 2020. (Impact factor = 3.643).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  15. \n

    Jian Kang*, Doug Steiert*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, and Yanjie Fu, “MoveWithMe: Location Privacy Preservation for Smartphone Users<\/a>“, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS<\/strong>), 2020. (Impact Factor = 7.178)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  16. \n

    Dan Lin<\/strong>, Douglas Steiert*, Joshua Morris*, Anna Squicciarini, and Jianping Fan, “REMIND: Risk Estimation Mechanism for Images in Network Distribution<\/a>“, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS<\/strong>), 2020. (Impact Factor = 7.178)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  17. \n

    Katrina Ward*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Sanjay Madria, “A Parallel Algorithm For Anonymizing Large-Scale Trajectory Data”, ACM Transactions on Data Science (TDS<\/strong>), 2020.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  18. \n

    Adam Bowers*, Cong Liao, Douglas Steiert*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Anna Squicciarini, Ali Hurson, “Detecting Suspicious File Migration or Replication in the Cloud<\/a>“, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC<\/strong>), 2019. (Impact Factor = 7.329)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  19. \n

    Douglas McGeehan*, Sanjay Madria,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Effective Social-context based Message Delivery Using ChitChat in Sparse Delay Tolerant Networks”, Distributed and Parallel Databases, 2019. (Impact Factor = 1.5)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  20. \n

    Pengyang Wang, Yanjie Fu, Jiawei Zhang, Xiaolin Li,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Learning Urban Community Structures: A Collective Embedding Perspective with Periodic Spatial-temporal Mobility Graphs”, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST<\/strong>), 2018. (Impact Factor = 2.672)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  21. \n

    Jian Kang*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Wei Jiang, Elisa Bertino, “Highly Efficient Randomized Authentication in VANETs<\/a>“, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2018. (Impact Factor = 3.453)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  22. \n

    Jun Yu, Zhenzhong Kuang, Baopeng Zhang, Wei Zhang,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Jianping Fan, “Leveraging Content Sensitiveness and User Trustworthiness to Recommend Fine-Grained Privacy Settings for Social Image Sharing<\/a>“, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS<\/strong>), 2018. (Impact Factor = 7.178)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  23. \n

    Dan Lin<\/strong>, Nicholas Hilbert*, Christian Storer*, Wei Jiang, Jianping Fan, “UFace: Your Universal Password That No One Can See<\/a>“, Computer & Security, 2017. (Impact Factor = 4.438)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  24. \n

    Jingwei Li, Adam Bowers*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Peng Jiang, Wei Jiang, “PAS: Policy-based Assistance in Sensor Networks”, Computing, 2017. (Impact Factor= 2.22)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  25. \n

    Jianping Fan, Zhenzhong Kuang, Baopeng Zhang, Jun Yu,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “iPrivacy: Image Privacy Protection by Identifying Sensitive Objects via Deep Multi-Task Learning<\/a>“, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS<\/strong>), 2016. (Impact Factor = 7.178)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  26. \n

    Dan Lin<\/strong>, Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Venkata Nagarjuna Dondapati*, Smitha Sundareswaran, “A Cloud Brokerage Architecture for Efficient Cloud Service Selection<\/a>“, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC<\/strong>), 2016. (Impact Factor = 8.216)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  27. \n

    Dan Lin<\/strong>, Jian Kang*, Anna Squicciarini, Yingjie Wu, Sashi Gurung, and Ozan Tonguz, “MoZo: A Moving Zone Based Routing Protocol Using Pure V2V Communication in VANETs<\/a>“, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC<\/strong>), 2016. (Impact Factor = 7.9)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  28. \n

    Jingwei Li*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Anna Squicciarini, Jin Li and Chunfu Jia, “Towards Privacy-Preserving Storage and Retrieval in Multiple Clouds”, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC<\/strong>), 2016. (Impact Factor = 6.5)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  29. \n

    Jingwei Li*, Anna Squicciarini,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Smitha Sundareswaran, and Chunfu Jia, “MMBcloud-tree: Authenticated Index for Verifiable Cloud Service Selection<\/a>“, Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC<\/strong>), 2016. (Impact Factor = 7.329)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  30. \n

    Tao Jiang, Bing Zhang,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Yunjun Gao and Qing Li, “Incremental evaluation of top-k combinatorial metric skyline query”, Knowledge-Based Systems, volume 74, pages 89-105, 2015. (Impact Factor=8.038)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  31. \n

    Sushama Karumanchi*, Anna Squicciarini,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Attribute-Based Access Control in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks”, Telecommunication Systems Journal, Springer, 2015. (Impact Factor = 2.314)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  32. \n

    Anna Squicciarini,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Smitha Sundareswaran*, and Josh Wede, “Privacy Policy Inference of User-Uploaded Images on Content Sharing Sites”, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE<\/strong>), 2014. (Impact Factor=6.977)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  33. \n

    Lasanthi Heendaliya*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, and Ali Hurson, “Continuous Predictive Line Queries for On-the-go Traffic Estimation”, Transactions on Large-Scale Data and Knowledge-Centered Systems, 2014.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  34. \n

    Sashi Gurung*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Wei Jiang, Ali Hurson, and Rui Zhang, “Traffic Information Publication with Privacy Preservation”, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST<\/strong>), 2014. (Impact Factor = 2.672)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  35. \n

    Tao Jiang, Yunjun Gao, Bin Zhang,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, and Qing Li, “Monochromatic and Bichromatic Mutual Skyline Queries”, Expert Systems with Applications, 2015. (Impact Factor = 6.954)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  36. \n

    Anna Squicciarini,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Sushama Karumanchi*, and Nicole Desisto, “Identifying Hidden Social Circles for Advanced Privacy Configuration”, Computers & Security, 2014. (Impact Factor = 4.438)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  37. \n

    Dan Lin<\/strong>, Prathima Rao*, Rodolfo Ferrini, Elisa Bertino, Jorge Lobo, “A Similarity Measure for Comparing XACML Policies”, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE<\/strong>), 2012. (Impact Factor=6.977)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  38. \n

    Lasanthi Heendaliya*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Ali Hurson, , “Predictive Line Queries for Traffic Forecasting”, Transactions on Large-Scale Data and Knowledge-Centered Systems, 2012.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  39. \n

    Anna Squicciarini, Smitha Sundareswaran*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, and Shuo Huang, “Ensuring Distributed Accountability for Data Sharing in the Cloud<\/a>“, in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC<\/strong>),2012. (Impact Factor = 7.329)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  40. \n

    Rui Zhang, Jiangzhong Qi,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Wei Wang, Raymond Wong, “A Highly Optimized Algorithm for Continuous Intersection Join Queries over Moving Objects”,\u00a0VLDB<\/strong>\u00a0Journal, 2011. (Impact Factor = 2.868)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  41. \n

    Prathima Rao*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Elisa Bertino, Ninghui Li, Jorge Lobo, “Fine-Grained Integration of Access Control Policies” Computer & Security, 2011. (Impact Factor = 4.438)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  42. \n

    Alex Hindle, Jie Shao,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Jiaheng Lu, Rui Zhang, “Clustering Web Video Search Results based on Integration of Multiple Features”, World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ<\/strong>), 2011. (Impact Factor = 2.716)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  43. \n

    Dan Lin<\/strong>, Prathima Rao*, Elisa Bertino, Ninghui Li, Jorge Lobo, “EXAM – A Comprehensive Environment for the Analysis of Access Control Policies<\/a>“, International Journal of Information Security, 2010. (Impact Factor = 1.988)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  44. \n

    Dan Lin<\/strong>, Elisa Bertino, Reynold Cheng, Sunil Prabhakar, “Location Privacy in Moving-Object Environments<\/a>” , Transactions on Data Privacy, Vol(2):1, pages: 21 – 46, 2009. (Impact Factor = 1.1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  45. \n

    Elisa Bertino, Carolyn Brodie, Seraphin Calo, Lorrie Cranor, Clare-Marie Karat, John Karat, Ninghui Li,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Jorge Lobo, Qun Ni, Prathima Rao, and Xiping Wang, “Analysis of Privacy and Security Policies”, IBM Systems Journal, 2009. (Impact Factor = 1.266)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  46. \n

    Christian S. Jensen,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, and Beng Chin Ooi, “Continuous Clustering of Moving Objects”, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE<\/strong>), 2007. (Impact Factor=6.977)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  47. \n

    Dan Lin<\/strong>, Rui Zhang, Aoying Zhou, “Indexing Fast Moving Objects for KNN Queries Based on Nearest Landmarks”, GeoInformatica Journal, 2006. (Impact Factor=2.684)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  48. \n

    Bin Cui,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Kian-Lee Tan, “IMPACT: A Twin-index Framework for Efficient Moving Object Query Processing”, Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE<\/strong>), 2005. (Impact Factor=1.992)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n \n

    Refereed Conferences<\/h2>\n
      \n
    1. Ali Allami*, Alex Esser*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “SVEvote: Scalable, Secure and Verifiable E-Voting”, 50th IEEE Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2026.<\/li>\n
    2. Haowei Fu, Bo Ni, Han Xu, Kunpeng Liu,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Tyler Derr, “Ensemble Privacy Defense for Knowledge-Intensive LLMs against Membership Inference Attacks”, 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL<\/strong>), 2026.<\/li>\n
    3. Ian Miller*, and\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Preventing Data Poisoning in Continual Learning for AI Generated Text Detectors”, IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI<\/strong>), 2025.<\/li>\n
    4. Ian Miller*, Ke Li, and\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Enhancing the Robustness of AI-Generated Voice Detectors Against Data Poisoning Attacks”, 11th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC<\/strong>), 2025.<\/li>\n
    5. Ian Miller*, Chaoquan Cai*, Maya Cutkosky*, and\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Shielding Against Deception: Fortifying Deepfake Detectors Against Data Poisoning Attacks”, 11th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC<\/strong>), 2025. (Best Student Paper Award<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
    6. Cameron Baird*, Ke Li*, and\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “TrueEar: A Lightweight and Accurate Fake Voice Detector for Mobile Devices”, 22nd IEEE International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI<\/strong>), 2025.<\/li>\n
    7. Tyler Nicewarner*, Ali Allami*, and\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Stealth Friend Locator: Server Blinded Private Location Sharing”, 49th IEEE Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC<\/strong>), 2025.<\/li>\n
    8. Ke Li*, Cameron Baird*, and\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “VocalTrust: Preventing Impostors to Enhance Trustworthiness of Voice Authentication”, 49th IEEE Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC<\/strong>), 2025.<\/li>\n
    9. Yu Alian*, Jian Kang, and\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “AI-Enabled Efficient Traffic Scheduling for Autonomous Vehicles”, IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC<\/strong>), 2025. (acceptance rate = 34.8%)<\/li>\n
    10. Ke Li*, Cameron Baird*, and\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Can We Trust Your Voice? Exploring Vulnerabilities in Voice Authentication”, IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC<\/strong>), 2025. (acceptance rate = 34.8%)<\/li>\n
    11. David Gao*, Ian Miller*, Ali Allami*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Preserving Privacy During Reinforcement Learning With AI Feedback”, IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (TPS<\/strong>), 2024.<\/li>\n
    12. Tyler Nicewarner*, Alex Esser*, Alian Yu*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Advanced Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation for Accurate Traffic Flow Prediction”, 27th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC<\/strong>), 2024.<\/li>\n
    13. Srikanth Narayanan*, Chaoquan Cai*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “GeoGRCNN: Synthetic Trajectory Generation for Location Privacy Protection”, IEEE Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC<\/strong>), 2024.<\/li>\n
    14. Jay Barot*, Ali Allami, Yin Ming.\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>,”ToneCheck: Unveiling the Impact of Dialects in Privacy Policy”, ACM symposium on access control models and technologies (SACMAT<\/strong>), 2024.<\/li>\n
    15. Tyler Nicewarner*, Alian Yu*, Wei Jiang,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Preserving Location Privacy in the Modern Era of Pervasive Environments”, IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (TPS<\/strong>), 2023.<\/li>\n
    16. Chaoquan Cai*, Wei Jiang,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Social Community Recommendation based on Large-scale Semantic Trajectory Analysis Using Deep Learning<\/a>“, the 18th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Data (SSTD<\/strong>), 2023.<\/li>\n
    17. Alian Yu*, Jian Kang*, Wei Jiang,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “FACT: A Flexible Access Control Technique for Very Large Scale Public IoT Services”, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (Percom<\/strong>), 2023.<\/li>\n
    18. Ian Miller*,\u00a0Dan Lin, “<\/strong>Developing Self-evolving Deepfake Detectors Against AI Attacks”, IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (TPS<\/strong>), 2022.<\/li>\n
    19. \n

      Jian Kang*, Alian Yu*, Wei Jiang,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “NWADE: A Neighborhood Watch Mechanism for Attack Detection and Evacuation in Autonomous Intersection Management<\/a>“, 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS<\/strong>), 2022.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    20. \n

      Adam Bowers*, Jize Du,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Wei Jiang, “Easy-to-Implement Two-Server based Anonymous Communication with Simulation Security<\/a>“, 17th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS<\/strong>), 2022. (acceptance rate = 18.4%)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    21. \n

      Imad Eddine Toubal, Linquan Lyu,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Kannappan Palaniappan, “Single View Facial Age Estimation Using Deep Learning with Cascading Random Forests” (3rd place winner<\/strong>), The 19th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP), 2021.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    22. \n

      Jian Kang*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “DASH: A Universal Intersection Traffic Management System for Autonomous Vehicles<\/a>“, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS<\/strong>), 2020. (Rank A by CORE)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    23. \n

      Nitish Uplavikar*, Jaideep Vaidya,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>\u00a0and Wei Jiang, “Privacy-Preserving Friend Recommendation in an Integrated Social Environment”, 16th International Conference on Information Systems Security, 2020. (acceptance rate = 21%)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    24. \n

      Jian Kang*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Elisa Bertino, Ozan Tonguz, “From Autonomous Vehicles to Vehicular Clouds: Challenges of Management, Security and Dependability”, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS<\/strong>), 2019.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    25. \n

      Joshua Morris*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Anna Squicciarini, “FriendGuard: A Friend Search Engine with Guaranteed Friend Exposure Degree” (Best Paper Award<\/strong>), ACM symposium on access control models and technologies (SACMAT<\/strong>), 2019.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    26. \n

      Dakshak Keerthi Chandra*, Weerdhawal Chowgule*, Yanjie Fu, and\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “RIPA: Real-time Image Privacy Alert System”, IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC<\/strong>), 2018. (acceptance rate = 26%)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    27. \n

      Wei Jiang,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Feng Li*, Elisa Bertino, “No One Can Track You: Randomized Authentication in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks<\/a>“, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom<\/strong>), 2017.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    28. \n

      Jian Kang*, Yousef Elmehdwi and\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “SLIM: Secure and Lightweight Identity Management in VANETs with Minimum Infrastructure Reliance”, 13th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm<\/strong>), 2017.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    29. \n

      Anna Squicciarini, Andrea Novelli,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Haoti Zhong, and Cornelia Caragea, “From Tag to Protect: A Tag-Driven Policy Recommender System for Image Sharing”, Privacy, Security and Trust (PST<\/strong>), 2017.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    30. \n

      Zhenzhong Kuang, Zongmin Li,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Jianping Fan, “Automatic Privacy Prediction to Accelerate Social Image Sharing”. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM<\/strong>), 2017.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    31. \n

      Jun Yu, Zhenzhong Kuang, Zhou Yu,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Jianping Fan, “Privacy Setting Recommendation for Image Sharing”, 16th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA<\/strong>), 2017.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    32. \n

      Katrina Ward*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>\u00a0and Sanjay Madria, “MELT: Mapreduce-based Efficient Large-scale Trajectory Anonymization”, 29th International Conference on Scientic and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM<\/strong>), 2017.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    33. \n

      Douglas Steiert*,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Quincy Conduff*, Wei Jiang, “A Location-Privacy Approach for Continuous Queries” (Poster), 22th ACM symposium on access control models and technologies (SACMAT<\/strong>), 2017.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    34. \n

      Adam Bowers*, Dan Lin, Anna Squicciarini, Ali Hurson, “Real-time Detection of Illegal File Transfers in the Cloud” (Poster), IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS<\/strong>), 2017.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    35. \n

      Cong Liao, Anna Squicciarini Dan Lin, “LAST-HDFS: Location-Aware Storage Technique for Hadoop Distributed File System”, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD<\/strong>) (acceptance rate=16.7%), 2016.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    36. \n

      Douglas McGeehan*, Dan Lin, Sanjay Madria, “ChitChat: An Effective Message Delivery Method in Sparse Pocket-Switched Networks”, 36th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS<\/strong>), 2016.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    37. \n

      Lasanthi Heendaliya*, Michael Wisely, Dan Lin, Sahra Sedigh, and Ali Hurson, “Influence-aware Predictive Density Queries Under Road-network Constraints”, 14th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD<\/strong>), 2015.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    38. \n

      Jingwei Li*, Anna Squicciarini, Dan Lin, Shuang Liang, and Chunfu Jia, “SecLoc: Securing Location-Sensitive Storage in the Cloud”, ACM symposium on access control models and technologies (SACMAT<\/strong>), 2015.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    39. \n

      Anna Squicciarini, Dan Lin, Smitha Sundareswaran*, and Jingwei Li, “Policy Driven Node Selection in MapReduce”, the 10th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm<\/strong>), 2014.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    40. \n

      Jingwei Li*, Dan Lin, Anna Squicciarini, and Chunfu Jia, “STRE: Privacy-Preserving Storage and Retrieval over Multiple Clouds”, the 10th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm<\/strong>), 2014.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    41. \n

      Lasanthi Heendaliya*, Dan Lin, and Ali Hurson, “Continuous Predictive Line Queries under Road-network Constraints”, the 24th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA<\/strong>), 2013.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    42. \n

      Sashi Gurung*, Dan Lin, Anna Squicciarini, and Elisa Bertino, “Information-oriented Trustworthiness Evaluation in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks”, the 7th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS<\/strong>), 2013.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    43. \n

      Sashi Gurung*, Dan Lin, Anna Squicciarini, Ozan Tonguz, “A Moving Zone Based Architecture for Message Dissemination in VANETs”, The International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM<\/strong>), 2012.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    44. \n

      Sushama Karumanchi*, Anna Squicciarini, Dan Lin, “Selective and Confidential Message Exchange in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks”, The International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS<\/strong>), 2012.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    45. \n

      Anna Squicciarini, Sushama Karumanchi*, Dan Lin, Nicole Desisto, “Automatic Social Group Organization and Privacy Management”, The IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom<\/strong>), 2012.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    46. \n

      Arej Muhammed*, Dan Lin, Anna Squicciarini, “Location Privacy Policy Management System”, The International Conference on Information and Communications Security\u00a0(ICICS<\/strong>), 2012.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    47. \n

      Smitha Sundareswaran*, Anna Squicciarini, Dan Lin, “A Brokerage-Based Approach for Cloud Service Selection”, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD<\/strong>), 2012.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    48. \n

      Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang, Lars Kulik, Dan Lin, Yuan Xue, “The Min-dist Location Selection Query”, In International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE<\/strong>), 2012.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    49. \n

      Dan Lin, Christian S. Jensen, Rui Zhang, Lu Xiao*, Jiaheng Lu, “A Moving-Object Index for Efficient Query Processing with Peer-Wise Location Privacy”, In Proceedings of International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB<\/strong>), Istanbul, Turkey,2012.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    50. \n

      Lasanthi Heendaliya*, Dan Lin, Ali Hurson, “Optimizing Predictive Queries on Moving Objects under Road-network Constraints”, the 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA<\/strong>), 2011.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    51. \n

      Smitha Sundareswaran*, Anna Squicciarini, Dan Lin, Shuo Huang, “Promoting Distributed Accountability in the Cloud” IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD<\/strong>), 2011.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    52. \n

      Anna Squicciarini, Dan Lin, Alessandro Mancarella, “PAIM: Peer-based Automobile Identity Management in Vehicular Ad-hoc Network”, the 35th IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC<\/strong>), 2011.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    53. \n

      Anna Squicciarini, Smitha Sundareswaran*, Dan Lin, Josh Wede, “A3P: Adaptive Policy Prediction for Shared Images on Content Sharing Sites” (Best Paper Award<\/strong>), 22nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 2011.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    54. \n

      Anna Squicciarini, Smitha Sundareswaran*, Dan Lin, “Preventing Information Leakage from Indexing in the Cloud” IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD<\/strong>), 2010.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    55. \n

      Dan Lin, Anna Squicciarini, “Data Protection Models for Service Provisioning in the Cloud”, 15th ACM symposium on access control models and technologies (SACMAT<\/strong>), 2010.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    56. \n

      Dan Lin, Sashi Gurung*, Wei Jiang, and Ali Hurson, “Privacy-Preserving Location Publishing under Road-Network Constraints<\/a>“, 15th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA<\/strong>), 2010.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    57. \n

      Chenyun Dai*, Dan Lin, Murat Kantarcioglu, Elisa Bertino, Ebru Celikel, and Bhavani Thuraisingham, “Query Processing Techniques for Compliance with Data Confidence Policies”, 6th\u00a0VLDB<\/strong>\u00a0Workshop on Secure Data Management, 2009.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    58. \n

      Prathima Rao*, Dan Lin, Elisa Bertino, Ninghui Li, and Jorge Lobo, “An Algebra for Fine-Grained Integration of XACML Policies”, 14th ACM symposium on access control models and technologies (SACMAT<\/strong>), France, 2009.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    59. \n

      Ninghui Li, Qihua Wang, Wahbeh Qardaji, Elisa Bertino, Prathima Rao, Jorge Lobo, and Dan Lin, “Access Control Policy Combining: Theory Meets Practice”, ACM symposium on access control models and technologies (SACMAT<\/strong>), France, 2009.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    60. \n

      Dan Lin, Elisa Bertino, Reynold Cheng and Sunil Prabhakar, “Position Transformation: A Location Privacy Protection Method for Moving Objects”, In Proceedings of ACM GIS Workshop on Security and Privacy, Irvine, CA, USA, 2008.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    61. \n

      Su Chen, Christian S. Jensen, and Dan Lin, “A Benchmark for Evaluating Moving Object Indexes”, The 34th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB<\/strong>), Auckland, New Zealand, 2008.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    62. \n

      Chenyun Dai*, Dan Lin,Elisa Bertino, and Murat Kantarcioglu, ” An Approach to Evaluate Data Trustworthiness Based on Data Provenance”, The 5th International Workshop on Secure Data Management (SDM<\/strong>) in conjunction with\u00a0VLDB<\/strong>, Auckland, New Zealand, 2008.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    63. \n

      Dan Lin, Prathima Rao*, Elisa Bertino, Ninghui Li, and Jorge Lobo, “Policy Decomposition for Collaborative Access Control”, ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies(SACMAT<\/strong>), Colorado, USA, 2008.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    64. \n

      Prathima Rao*, Dan Lin, Elisa Bertino, Jorge Lobo and Ninghui Li, “EXAM- A Comprehensive Environment for XACML Policy Analysis and Management” (Demo), In Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, Palisades, NY, USA, 2008.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    65. \n

      Lorenzo D. Martino, Qun Ni, Dan Lin, and Elisa Bertino, “Multi-domain and Privacy-aware Role Based Access Control in eHealth”,International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Tampere, Finland, 2008.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    66. \n

      Rui Zhang, Dan Lin, Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, and Elisa Bertino, “Continuous Intersection Joins Over Moving Objects”, International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE<\/strong>), Cancun, Mexico, 2008.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    67. \n

      Qun Ni, Dan Lin, Elisa Bertino, and Jorge Lobo, “Conditional Privacy-Aware Role Based Access Control”, European Symposium on Research In Computer Security (ESORICS<\/strong>), Dresden, Germany, 2007.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    68. \n

      Dan Lin, Hicham G. Elmongui, Elisa Bertino, and Beng Chin Ooi, “Data Management in RFID Applications”, International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA<\/strong>), Regensburg, Germany, 2007.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    69. \n

      Dan Lin, Prathima Rao*, Elisa Bertino and Jorge Lobo, “An Approach to Evaluate Policy Similarity”, ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT<\/strong>), Sophia Antipolis, France, 2007.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    70. \n

      Prathima Rao*, Dan Lin, and Elisa Bertino, “XACML Function Annotations” (Best Student Paper<\/strong>), IEEE Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, Bologna, Italy, 2007.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    71. \n

      Dan Lin, Bin Cui, “Optimizing Moving Queries Over Moving Object Data Streams”, International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA<\/strong>), Bangkok, Thailand, 2007.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    72. \n

      Beng Chin Ooi, Zhiyong Huang, Dan Lin, Hua Lu and Linhao Xu, “Adapting Relational Database Engine to Accommodate Moving Objects”(Demo), International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE<\/strong>), Istanbul, Turkey, 2007.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    73. \n

      Christian S. Jensen, Dan Lin, Beng Chin Ooi, Rui Zhang, “Effective Density Queries on Continuously Moving Objects”, International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE<\/strong>), Atlanta, USA, 2006.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    74. \n

      Dan Lin, Christian S. Jensen, Beng Chin Ooi, Simonas Saltenis, “Efficient Indexing of the Historical, Present, and Future Positions of Moving Objects”, International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM<\/strong>), Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 2005.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    75. \n

      Bin Cui, Dan Lin, Kian-Lee Tan, “Towards Optimal Utilization of Main Memory for Moving Object Indexing”, International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA<\/strong>), Beijing, China, 2005.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    76. \n

      Christian S. Jensen, Dan Lin, Beng Chin Ooi, “Query and Update Efficient B+-Tree Based Indexing of Moving Objects”, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB<\/strong>), Toronto, Canada, 2004. [bx-tree code]<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    77. \n

      Bo Huang, Zhiyong Huang, Hongga Li, Dan Lin, Hua Lu, Yaxiao Song, “ITQS: An Integrated Transport Query System “(Demo) , ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD<\/strong>), Paris, France, 2004.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n \n

      Book Chapters<\/h2>\n
        \n
      1. \n

        Lasanthi Heendaliya, Michael Wisely,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, Sarah Sedigh Sarvestani, and Ali Hurson, “Indexing and Querying Techniques for Moving Objects in Both Euclidean Space and Road Network”, Advance in Computers, Volume 102, Chapter 4, Pages 111-169, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

      2. \n

        Elisa Bertino, Chenyun Dai, Hyo-Sang Lim, and\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, “High-Assurance Integrity Techniques for Databases” (invited paper), in proceedings of 25th British National Conference on Database (BNCOD) by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, 2008.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

      3. \n

        Elisa Bertino,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, and Wei Jiang, “A Survey of Quantification of Privacy Preserving Data Mining Algorithms” in Privacy-Preserving Data Mining (Models and Algorithms), Charu C. Aggarwaland Philip S. Yu (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2008.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

      4. \n

        Christian S. Jensen,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, and Beng Chin Ooi, “Indexing of Moving Objects”, in Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science, Shashi Shekha and Hui Xiong (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2007.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

      5. \n

        Christian S. Jensen,\u00a0Dan Lin<\/strong>, and Beng Chin Ooi, “Maximum Update Interval in Moving Objects Databases”, Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science, 2008.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n \n

        Books<\/h2>\n
          \n
        • \n

          Dan Lin<\/strong>, Anna Squicciarini, Daniela Oliveira, “Cloud Computing Security”, CRC Press.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n \n

          Thesis<\/h2>\n
            \n
          • \n

            Dan Lin<\/strong>, “Indexing and Querying Moving Objects Databases”, PhD Thesis.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n \n

            Patent<\/h2>\n
              \n
            • Dan Lin<\/strong>, Cameron Baird, Ke Li, “System and Method for Lightweight On-device Detection of Synthetic Speech Using Artificial Intelligence”, 093386-0084-US01, 2025. (pending)<\/li>\n
            • Dan Lin<\/strong>, Alian Yu, Jian, Kang, Joshua Morris, Elisa Bertino, “Defending Files Against
              \nRansomware”, PCT\/US2025\/014700, 2025. (pending)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
                \n
              • \n

                Dan Lin<\/strong>, Prathima Rao, Elisa Bertino and Jorge Lobo, “Method and System to Determine Policy Similarities”, US8020191B2, 2011.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n \n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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