Ting Yu Assistant professor Department of Computer Science   North Carolina State University  Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Office: EBII 3254, Campus Box 8206, Raleigh, NC   Phone: (919) 513-7578   Fax: (919) 515-7896   Email: yu AT csc.ncsu.edu

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Bio

Teaching

• CSC 743: Secure Data Management, Spring 2008.
• CSC 246: Operating Systems, Spring 2008
• CSC 574: Computer and Communications Security, Fall 2007

Recent Professional Activities

• Program Chair: 2007 ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES'07)
• Program Co-Chair: 2006 ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES'06)
• Web Chair: 2008 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'08)
• TPC Member: ICDE09, CCS08, WPES08, SACMAT08, DBSec08, VLDB07, SIGMOD Demo07, ASIACCS07, CCS07,STM07

Research

My research interest includes trust management and privacy preservation in open systems, and database management systems. I am a member of the Cyber Defense Laboratory.

My current projects include the following:

• Trust and privacy management in online social networks. Online social networks greatly expand the scale of people's social connections, and are increasingly becoming an open computing platform, where new services can be quickly offered and propagated. Mechanisms for trust management and privacy protection are integral to the future success of online social networks. This project develops theoretical and practical techniques for the management of trust and privacy for online social networks, with a focuse on flexible trust models for social networks, privacy preserving feedback issuing and management, and graph anonymization for the sharing of social network data.
• Obligation policies and management. The correct behavior and reliable operation of an information system relies not only on what users are permitted to do, but oftentimes on what users are required to do. Such obligatory actions are integral to the security procedures of many enterprises. This project develops a comprehensive framework for the management of obligations in security policies, which covers the full life cycle of obligations, including obligation modeling, specification, analysis, monitoring and discharges. Specifically, the project formally identifies the desirable security objectives that are characteristic of systems that involve obligations, and systematically investigates dynamic and static means to maintaining these objectives while such systems evolve.
• Fine-grained database access control. Complex business security and privacy policies often require to control information accessibility in row level or even cell level. In this project, we formally study the correctness criteria for query answering when a database is protected under fine-grained access control. We also investigate techniques through both query modification and query evaluation engine modification to efficiently enforce fine-grained access control in relational databases.

Publications