Kyoto University   Graduate School of Informatics   Program-Specific Assistant Professor

2018 - 2022

Emory University   Department of Computer Science   Postdoctoral Research Fellow

2017 - 2018

Emory University   Department of Computer Science   Research Assistant

2016 - 2017

Springer Data Science and Engineering (DSEJ)   Associate Editor  

2024.10   

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)   Associate Editor  

2024.8 - 2026.8   

IPSJ Transactions on Data Processing (IPSJ-TOD)   Associate Editor  

2024.5   

ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD)   Program Committee Member  

2024.1   

ACM SIGKDDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)   Program Committee Member  

2024.1   

IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society (OJCS)   Associate Editor  

2024.1 - 2025.12   

International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2024   Proceeding co-Chair  

2024.1 - 2024.12   

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Special Issue on Data Engineering and Information Management   Associate Editor  

2024.1 - 2024.12   

International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB)   Program Committee Member  

2023.1   

Privacy in Fine-Tuning Large Language Models: Attacks, Defenses, and Future Directions. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Hao Du, Shang Liu 0001, Lele Zheng, Yang Cao 0011, Atsuyoshi Nakamura, Lei Chen

Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD)   326 - 344   2025.6

Verifiably Forgotten? Gradient Differences Still Enable Data Reconstruction in Federated Unlearning.

Fuyao Zhang, Wenjie Li 0008, Yurong Hao, Xinyu Yan, Yang Cao 0011, Wei Yang Bryan Lim

CoRR   abs/2505.11097   2025.5

Sensitivity-Aware Differential Privacy for Federated Medical Imaging

Lele Zheng, Yang Cao, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Yulong Shen, Essam A. Rashed, Kenjiro Taura, Shouhei Hanaoka, Tao Zhang

Sensors   25 ( 9 )   2847 - 2847   2025.4

Anti-Fake Vaccine: Safeguarding Privacy Against Face Swapping via Visual-Semantic Dual Degradation. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Jingzhi Li 0002, Changjiang Luo, Hua Zhang 0008, Yang Cao 0011, Xin Liao, Xiaochun Cao

Int. J. Comput. Vis.   133 ( 4 )   2025 - 2043   2025.4

Data-centric Federated Graph Learning with Large Language Models.

Bo Yan 0005, Zhongjian Zhang, Huabin Sun, Mengmei Zhang, Yang Cao 0011, Chuan Shi 0001

CoRR   abs/2503.19455   2025.3

Are Your LLM-based Text-to-SQL Models Secure? Exploring SQL Injection via Backdoor Attacks.

Meiyu Lin, Haichuan Zhang, Jiale Lao, Renyuan Li, Yuanchun Zhou, Carl Yang 0001, Yang Cao 0011, Mingjie Tang

CoRR   abs/2503.05445   2025.3

DPAF: Image Synthesis via Differentially Private Aggregation in Forward Phase. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Chih-Hsun Lin, Chia-Yi Hsu, Chia-Mu Yu, Yang Cao 0011, Chun-Ying Huang

IEEE Internet Things J.   12 ( 6 )   7549 - 7563   2025.3

Data Overvaluation Attack and Truthful Data Valuation.

Shuyuan Zheng, Sudong Cai, Chuan Xiao 0001, Yang Cao 0011, Jianbin Qin, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Makoto Onizuka

CoRR   abs/2502.00494   2025.2

Differentially Private Visual Learning with Public Subspace Augmented by Synthetic Data.

Haichao Sha, Yuncheng Wu, Ruixuan Liu, Yang Cao 0011, Hong Chen 0001

ACM Multimedia   11357 - 11366   2025

Are Your LLM-based Text-to-SQL Models Secure? Exploring SQL Injection via Backdoor Attacks.

Meiyu Lin, Haichuan Zhang, Jiale Lao, Renyuan Li, Yuanchun Zhou, Carl Yang 0001, Yang Cao 0011, Mingjie Tang

Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data   3 ( 6 )   1 - 27   2025

PGB: Benchmarking Differentially Private Synthetic Graph Generation Algorithms. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Shang Liu 0001, Hao Du, Yang Cao 0011, Bo Yan 0005, Jinfei Liu, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Icde   1348 - 1361   2025

Bargaining-Based Data Markets. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Yuran Bi, Jinfei Liu, Kui Ren 0001, Yihang Wu, Yang Cao 0011

Icde   1456 - 1469   2025

Databases Theory and Applications - 35th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2024, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, December 16-18, 2024, Proceedings Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Adc   15449   2025

Enhancing Federated Domain Adaptation with Multi-Domain Prototype-Based Federated Fine-Tuning. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Jingyuan Zhang, Yiyang Duan, Shuaicheng Niu, Yang Cao 0011, Wei Yang Bryan Lim

Iclr   2025

Federated Graph Condensation with Information Bottleneck Principles. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Bo Yan 0005, Sihao He, Cheng Yang 0002, Shang Liu 0001, Yang Cao 0011, Chuan Shi 0001

Aaai   12990 - 12998   2025

MMGIA: Gradient Inversion Attack Against Multimodal Federated Learning via Intermodal Correlation. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Lele Zheng, Yang Cao 0011, Leo Yu Zhang, Wei Wang 0077, Yulong Shen 0001, Xiaochun Cao

Ijcai   7967 - 7975   2025

Enhancing Privacy of Spatiotemporal Federated Learning Against Gradient Inversion Attacks. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Lele Zheng, Yang Cao 0011, Renhe Jiang, Kenjiro Taura, Yulong Shen, Sheng Li 0010, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Database Systems for Advanced Applications - 29th International Conference   457 - 473   2024.10

Front Matter. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Meihui Zhang 0001, Cyrus Shahabi, Ju Fan, Yang Cao 0011, Xiaoou Ding, Divesh Srivastava, Nesime Tatbul, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Yongxin Tong, Yuncheng Wu, Li Xiong 0001, Torsten Grust, Themis Palpanas, Philippe Bonnet, Haixun Wang, Wook-Shin Han, Ibrahim Sabek, M. Tamer Özsu, Xiaofang Zhou 0001

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment   17 ( 12 )   2024.8

Uldp-FL: Federated Learning with Across Silo User-Level Differential Privacy. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Fumiyuki Kato, Li Xiong 0001, Shun Takagi, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment   17 ( 11 )   2826 - 2839   2024.7

HRNet: Differentially Private Hierarchical and Multi-Resolution Network for Human Mobility Data Synthesization. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Shun Takagi, Li Xiong 0001, Fumiyuki Kato, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment   17 ( 11 )   3058 - 3071   2024.7

Automatic Post-editing of Speech Recognition System Output Using Large Language Models. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Sheng Li 0010, Jiyi Li, Yang Cao 0011

DASFAA (Workshops)   178 - 186   2024.7

Mobility Data Science: Perspectives and Challenges. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Mohamed F. Mokbel, Mahmoud Attia Sakr, Li Xiong 0001, Andreas Züfle, Jussara M. Almeida, Taylor Anderson 0001, Walid G. Aref, Gennady L. Andrienko, Natalia V. Andrienko, Yang Cao 0011, Sanjay Chawla, Reynold Cheng, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Xiqi Fei, Gabriel Ghinita, Anita Graser, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Christian S. Jensen, Joon-Seok Kim 0001, Kyoung-Sook Kim 0001, Peer Kröger, John Krumm, Johannes Lauer, Amr Magdy 0001, Mario A. Nascimento, Siva Ravada, Matthias Renz, Dimitris Sacharidis, Flora D. Salim, Mohamed Sarwat, Maxime Schoemans, Cyrus Shahabi, Bettina Speckmann, Egemen Tanin, Xu Teng, Yannis Theodoridis, Kristian Torp, Goce Trajcevski, Marc J. van Kreveld, Carola Wenk, Martin Werner 0001, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Song Wu, Jianqiu Xu, Moustafa Youssef 0001, Demetris Zeinalipour, Mengxuan Zhang 0001, Esteban Zimányi

ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems   10 ( 2 )   10 - 10   2024.6

Phantom in the Opera: Adversarial Music Attack for Robot Dialogue System. Reviewed International journal

Sheng Li 0010, Jiyi Li, Yang Cao 0011

Frontiers in Computer Science   6   2024.2

Differentially Private Trajectory Event Streams Publishing under Data Dependence Constraints. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Yuan Shen 0005, Wei Song 0006, Yang Cao 0011, Zechen Liu, Zhe Wei, Zhiyong Peng 0001

Information Sciences   657   119959 - 119959   2024.2

TabularMark: Watermarking Tabular Datasets for Machine Learning. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Yihao Zheng, Haocheng Xia, Junyuan Pang, Jinfei Liu, Kui Ren 0001, Lingyang Chu, Yang Cao 0011, Li Xiong 0001

Ccs   3570 - 3584   2024

PreCurious: How Innocent Pre-Trained Language Models Turn into Privacy Traps. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Ruixuan Liu, Tianhao Wang 0001, Yang Cao 0011, Li Xiong 0001

Ccs   3511 - 3524   2024

CARGO: Crypto-Assisted Differentially Private Triangle Counting Without Trusted Servers. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Shang Liu 0001, Yang Cao 0011, Takao Murakami, Jinfei Liu, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering(ICDE)   1671 - 1684   2024

Facial Memorization of Diffusion Model. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Shiang Ma, Yang Cao, Atsuyoshi Nakamura

Adc   519 - 529   2024

Federated Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for Privacy-preserving Recommendation. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Bo Yan 0005, Yang Cao 0011, Haoyu Wang, Wenchuan Yang, Junping Du 0001, Chuan Shi 0001

Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024(WWW)   3919 - 3929   2024

Investigating Effective Speaker Property Privacy Protection in Federated Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Chao Tan, Sheng Li 0010, Yang Cao 0011, Zhao Ren, Tanja Schultz

MMAsia   27 - 7   2024

Noise-Aware Algorithm for Heterogeneous Differentially Private Federated Learning. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Saber Malekmohammadi, Yaoliang Yu, Yang Cao 0011

Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning(ICML)   2024

Optimal Graph Learning and Nuclear Norm Maximization for Deep Cross-Domain Robust Label Propagation. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Wei Wang 0335, Hanyang Li, Ke Shi, Chao Huang 0008, Yang Cao 0011, Cong Wang 0018, Xiaochun Cao

Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence(IJCAI)   1407 - 1415   2024

Reprogramming Self-supervised Learning-based Speech Representations for Speaker Anonymization. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Xiaojiao Chen, Sheng Li 0010, Jiyi Li, Hao Huang 0009, Yang Cao 0011, Liang He 0003

ACM Multimedia Asia 2023(MMAsia)   93 - 5   2023.12

GhostVec: A New Threat to Speaker Privacy of End-to-End Speech Recognition System. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Xiaojiao Chen, Sheng Li 0010, Jiyi Li, Yang Cao 0011, Hao Huang 0009, Liang He 0003

ACM Multimedia Asia 2023(MMAsia)   94 - 5   2023.12

Mechanisms to Address Different Privacy Requirements for Users and Locations. Reviewed International journal

Ryota Hiraishi, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Yang Cao 0011, Sumio Fujita, Hidehito Gomi

IEICE Transactions on Information & Systems   106 ( 12 )   2036 - 2047   2023.12

Supporting Pandemic Preparedness with Privacy Enhancing Technology. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Ruixuan Liu, Sepanta Zeighami, Haowen Lin, Cyrus Shahabi, Yang Cao 0011, Shun Takagi, Yoko Konishi, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Li Xiong 0001

5th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications(TPS-ISA)   30   34 - 43   2023.11

Local Differential Privacy Image Generation Using Flow-Based Deep Generative Models Reviewed International journal

Hisaichi Shibata, Shouhei Hanaoka, Yang Cao, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Tomomi Takenaga, Yukihiro Nomura, Naoto Hayashi, Osamu Abe

Applied Sciences   13 ( 18 )   10132 - 10132   2023.9

General or Specific? Investigating Effective Privacy Protection in Federated Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition. Reviewed International journal

Chao Tan, Yang Cao 0011, Sheng Li 0010, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP 2023(ICASSP)   1 - 5   2023.6

Geo-Graph-Indistinguishability: Location Privacy on Road Networks with Differential Privacy. Reviewed International journal

Shun Takagi, Yang Cao 0011, Yasuhito Asano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

IEICE Transactions on Information & Systems   106 ( 5 )   877 - 894   2023.5

Towards Benchmarking Privacy Risk for Differential Privacy: A Survey. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Dmitry Prokhorenkov, Yang Cao 0011

Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation(BuildSys)   322 - 327   2023

CSGAN: Modality-Aware Trajectory Generation via Clustering-based Sequence GAN. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Minxing Zhang, Haowen Lin, Shun Takagi, Yang Cao 0011, Cyrus Shahabi, Li Xiong 0001

24th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management(MDM)   148 - 157   2023

Differentially Private Streaming Data Release Under Temporal Correlations via Post-processing. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Xuyang Cao, Yang Cao 0011, Primal Pappachan, Atsuyoshi Nakamura, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXXVII - 37th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference(DBSec)   184 - 200   2023

Equitable Data Valuation Meets the Right to Be Forgotten in Model Markets. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Haocheng Xia, Jinfei Liu, Jian Lou 0001, Zhan Qin, Kui Ren 0001, Yang Cao 0011, Li Xiong 0001

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment   16 ( 11 )   3349 - 3362   2023

From Bounded to Unbounded: Privacy Amplification via Shuffling with Dummies. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Shun Takagi, Fumiyuki Kato, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

36th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium(CSF)   457 - 472   2023

Locally Private Streaming Data Release with Shuffling and Subsampling. Reviewed International journal

Xiaoyu Li, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

39th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering(ICDEW)   125 - 131   2023

Olive: Oblivious Federated Learning on Trusted Execution Environment Against the Risk of Sparsification. Reviewed International journal

Fumiyuki Kato, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment   16 ( 10 )   2404 - 2417   2023

PrivateRec: Differentially Private Model Training and Online Serving for Federated News Recommendation. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Ruixuan Liu, Yang Cao 0011, Yanlin Wang 0001, Lingjuan Lyu, Yun Chen 0007, Hong Chen 0001

Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining(KDD)   4539 - 4548   2023

Secure Shapley Value for Cross-Silo Federated Learning. Reviewed International journal

Shuyuan Zheng, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment   16 ( 7 )   1657 - 1670   2023

Asymmetric Differential Privacy. Reviewed International journal

Shun Takagi, Fumiyuki Kato, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

IEEE International Conference on Big Data   1576 - 1581   2022

Bidirectional Collaborative Frameworks for Decentralized Data Management Reviewed International journal

Yasuhito Asano, Yang Cao, Soichiro Hidaka, Zhenjiang Hu, Yasunori Ishihara, Hiroyuki Kato, Keisuke Nakano, Makoto Onizuka, Yuya Sasaki, Toshiyuki Shimizu, Masato Takeichi, Chuan Xiao, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Communications in Computer and Information Science   13 - 51   2022

Boosting Utility of Differentially Private Streaming Data Release under Temporal Correlations. Reviewed International journal

Xuyang Cao, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Atsuyoshi Nakamura

IEEE International Conference on Big Data   6605 - 6607   2022

FL-Market: Trading Private Models in Federated Learning. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Shuyuan Zheng, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Huizhong Li, Qiang Yan 0001

IEEE International Conference on Big Data   1525 - 1534   2022

HDPView: Differentially Private Materialized View for Exploring High Dimensional Relational Data. Reviewed International journal

Fumiyuki Kato, Tsubasa Takahashi 0001, Shun Takagi, Yang Cao 0011, Seng Pei Liew, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment   15 ( 9 )   1766 - 1778   2022

Mitigating Privacy Vulnerability Caused by Map Asymmetry. Reviewed International journal

Ryota Hiraishi, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Shun Takagi, Yang Cao 0011, Sumio Fujita, Hidehito Gomi

Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXXVI - 36th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference(DBSec)   68 - 86   2022

Mobility Data Science (Dagstuhl Seminar 22021). Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Mohamed F. Mokbel, Mahmoud Attia Sakr, Li Xiong 0001, Andreas Züfle, Jussara M. Almeida, Taylor Anderson 0001, Walid G. Aref, Gennady L. Andrienko, Natalia V. Andrienko, Yang Cao 0011, Sanjay Chawla, Reynold Cheng, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Xiqi Fei, Gabriel Ghinita, Anita Graser, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Christian S. Jensen, Joon-Sook Kim, Kyoung-Sook Kim 0001, Peer Kröger, John Krumm, Johannes Lauer, Amr Magdy 0001, Mario A. Nascimento, Siva Ravada, Matthias Renz, Dimitris Sacharidis, Cyrus Shahabi, Flora D. Salim, Mohamed Sarwat, Maxime Schoemans, Bettina Speckmann, Egemen Tanin, Yannis Theodoridis, Kristian Torp, Goce Trajcevski, Marc J. van Kreveld, Carola Wenk, Martin Werner 0001, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Song Wu, Jianqiu Xu, Moustafa Youssef 0001, Demetris Zeinalipour, Mengxuan Zhang 0001, Esteban Zimányi

Dagstuhl Reports   12 ( 1 )   1 - 34   2022

Network Shuffling: Privacy Amplification via Random Walks. Reviewed International journal

Seng Pei Liew, Tsubasa Takahashi 0001, Shun Takagi, Fumiyuki Kato, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

SIGMOD '22: International Conference on Management of Data   773 - 787   2022

OLIVE: Oblivious and Differentially Private Federated Learning on Trusted Execution Environment. Reviewed International journal

Fumiyuki Kato, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Vldb 2023   abs/2202.07165   2022

PCT-TEE: Trajectory-based Private Contact Tracing System with Trusted Execution Environment. Reviewed International journal

Fumiyuki Kato, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems   8 ( 2 )   1 - 35   2022

An Accurate, Flexible and Private Trajectory-Based Contact Tracing System on Untrusted Servers. Reviewed International journal

Ruixuan Cao, Fumiyuki Kato, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Information Integration and Web Intelligence - 24th International Conference(iiWAS)   409 - 414   2022

A Crypto-Assisted Approach for Publishing Graph Statistics with Node Local Differential Privacy. Reviewed International journal

Shang Liu 0001, Yang Cao 0011, Takao Murakami, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

IEEE International Conference on Big Data   5765 - 5774   2022

Transparent Contribution Evaluation for Secure Federated Learning on Blockchain. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Shuaicheng Ma, Yang Cao 0011, Li Xiong 0001

37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops   88 - 91   2021

Protecting Spatiotemporal Event Privacy in Continuous Location-Based Services. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Yang Cao 0011, Yonghui Xiao, Li Xiong 0001, Liquan Bai, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering   33 ( 8 )   3141 - 3154   2021

Benchmarking Blockchain-based Gene-drug Interaction Data Sharing Methods: A Case Study from the iDASH 2019 Secure Genome Analysis Competition Blockchain Track. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Tsung-Ting Kuo, Tyler Bath, Shuaicheng Ma, Nicholas D. Pattengale, Meng Yang, Yang Cao 0011, Corey M. Hudson, Jihoon Kim 0001, Kai W. Post, Li Xiong 0001, Lucila Ohno-Machado

International Journal of Medical Informatics   154   104559 - 104559   2021

FLAME: Differentially Private Federated Learning in the Shuffle Model. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Ruixuan Liu, Yang Cao, Hong Chen, Ruoyang Guo, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Aaai 2021   8688 - 8696   2021

P3GM: Private High-Dimensional Data Release via Privacy Preserving Phased Generative Model. Reviewed International journal

Shun Takagi, Tsubasa Takahashi 0001, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering(ICDE)   169 - 180   2021

Preventing Manipulation Attack in Local Differential Privacy Using Verifiable Randomization Mechanism. Reviewed International journal

Fumiyuki Kato, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXXV - 35th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference(DBSec)   43 - 60   2021

Privacy-Preserving Polynomial Evaluation over Spatio-Temporal Data on an Untrusted Cloud Server. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Wei Song 0006, Mengfei Tang, Qiben Yan, Yuan Shen 0005, Yang Cao 0011, Qian Wang 0002, Zhiyong Peng 0001

Database Systems for Advanced Applications - 26th International Conference   474 - 490   2021

Voice-Indistinguishability -- Protecting Voiceprint with Differential Privacy under an Untrusted Server Reviewed International journal

Yaowei Han, Yang Cao, Sheng Li, Qiang Ma, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security   2125 - 2127   2020.10

Protecting Spatiotemporal Event Privacy in Continuous Location-Based Services Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Yang Cao, Yonghui Xiao, Li Xiong, Liquan Bai, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)   abs/1907.10814   2020.1

Voice-Indistinguishability: Protecting Voiceprint in Privacy-Preserving Speech Data Release. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Yaowei Han, Sheng Li 0010, Yang Cao 0011, Qiang Ma 0001, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Icme 2020   abs/2004.07442   1 - 6   2020

Trace-Based Dynamic Gas Estimation of Loops in Smart Contracts. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Chunmiao Li, Shijie Nie, Yang Cao 0011, Yijun Yu, Zhenjiang Hu

IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society   1   295 - 306   2020

Secure and Efficient Trajectory-Based Contact Tracing using Trusted Hardware. Reviewed International journal

Fumiyuki Kato, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020)   4016 - 4025   2020

AuthPrivacyChain: A Blockchain-based Access Control Framework with Privacy Protection in Cloud. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Caixia Yang, Liang Tan, Na Shi, Bolei Xu, Yang Cao, Keping Yu

IEEE Access   8   70604 - 70615   2020

Blockchain-Empowered Contact Tracing for COVID-19 Using Crypto-Spatiotemporal Information. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Zheng Wen, Keping Yu, Xin Qi 0002, Toshio Sato, Yutaka Katsuyama, Takuro Sato, Wataru Kameyama, Fumiyuki Kato, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Min Luo, Jun Hashimoto

22nd IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking(HealthCom)   1 - 6   2020

Dynamic Gas Estimation of Loops Using Machine Learning Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Chunmiao Li, Shijie Nie, Yang Cao, Yijun Yu, Zhenjiang Hu

Communications in Computer and Information Science   428 - 441   2020

Efficient Logging and Querying for Blockchain-based Cross-site Genomic Dataset Access Audit. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Shuaicheng Ma, Yang Cao and Li Xiong

BMC Medical Genomics   abs/1907.07303   2020

FedSel: Federated SGD Under Local Differential Privacy with Top-k Dimension Selection. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Ruixuan Liu, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Hong Chen 0001

Database Systems for Advanced Applications - 25th International Conference   485 - 501   2020

Money Cannot Buy Everything: Trading Mobile Data with Controllable Privacy Loss Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Shuyuan Zheng, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

21st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management(MDM)   29 - 38   2020

P3GM: Private High-Dimensional Data Release via Privacy Preserving Phased Generative Model. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Shun Takagi, Tsubasa Takahashi 0001, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Ieee Icde 2021   abs/2006.12101   2020

PANDA: Policy-aware Location Privacy for Epidemic Surveillance. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Yang Cao 0011, Shun Takagi, Yonghui Xiao, Li Xiong 0001, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

VLDB 2020 (demo)   abs/2005.00186   2020

PANDA: Policy-aware Location Privacy for Epidemic Surveillance. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Yang Cao 0011, Shun Takagi, Yonghui Xiao, Li Xiong 0001, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Proc. VLDB Endow.   13 ( 12 )   3001 - 3004   2020

PCKV: Locally Differentially Private Correlated Key-Value Data Collection with Optimized Utility. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Xiaolan Gu, Ming Li, Yueqiang Cheng, Li Xiong and Yang Cao

USENIX Security 2020   abs/1911.12834   967 - 984   2020

PGLP: Customizable and Rigorous Location Privacy through Policy Graph. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Yang Cao 0011, Yonghui Xiao, Shun Takagi, Li Xiong 0001, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Yilin Shen, Jinfei Liu, Hongxia Jin, Xiaofeng Xu

Esorics 2020   abs/2005.01263   2020

PGLP: Customizable and Rigorous Location Privacy Through Policy Graph. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Yang Cao 0011, Yonghui Xiao, Shun Takagi, Li Xiong 0001, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Yilin Shen, Jinfei Liu, Hongxia Jin, Xiaofeng Xu

Computer Security - ESORICS 2020 - 25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security   655 - 676   2020

POSTER: Data Collection via Local Differential Privacy with Secret Parameters. Reviewed International journal

Shun Takagi, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

ASIA CCS '20: The 15th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security(AsiaCCS)   910 - 912   2020

POSTER: Protecting Location Privacy on Road Networks. Reviewed International journal

Shun Takagi, Yang Cao 0011, Yasuhito Asano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

ASIA CCS '20: The 15th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security(AsiaCCS)   913 - 915   2020

Providing Input-Discriminative Protection for Local Differential Privacy. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Xiaolan Gu, Ming Li, Li Xiong and Yang Cao

Ieee Icde   abs/1911.01402   505 - 516   2020

Privacy-Preserving Range Queries and Frequency Estimation with Geo-indistinguishability Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Xiaolan Gu, Ming Li, Yang Cao, Li Xiong

IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) 2019, to appear   2019.6

Supporting Both Range Queries and Frequency Estimation with Local Differential Privacy. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Xiaolan Gu, Ming Li 0003, Yang Cao 0011, Li Xiong 0001

7th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security(CNS)   124 - 132   2019

Blockchain-Based Bidirectional Updates on Fine-Grained Medical Data. Reviewed International journal

Chunmiao Li, Yang Cao 0011, Zhenjiang Hu, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

BlockDM Workshop in ICDE 2019, to Appear   22 - 27   2019

Errata on "Quantifying Differential Privacy in Continuous Data Release under Temporal Correlations". Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Yonghui Xiao, Li Xiong 0001

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering   31 ( 11 )   2234 - 2234   2019

Geo-Graph-Indistinguishability: Protecting Location Privacy for LBS over Road Networks. Reviewed International journal

Shun Takagi, Yang Cao 0011, Yasuhito Asano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

33rd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec'19), to appear.   143 - 163   2019

PriSTE: From Location Privacy to Spatiotemporal Event Privacy. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Yang Cao 0011, Yonghui Xiao, Li Xiong 0001, Liquan Bai

Ieee Icde 2019.   1606 - 1609   2019

PriSTE: Protecting Spatiotemporal Event Privacy in Continuous Location-Based Services. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Yang Cao 0011, Yonghui Xiao, Li Xiong 0001, Liquan Bai, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Pvldb   12 ( 12 )   1866 - 1869   2019

Quantifying Differential Privacy in Continuous Data Release Under Temporal Correlations. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Yonghui Xiao, Li Xiong 0001

IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.   31 ( 7 )   1281 - 1295   2019

"When and Where Do You Want to Hide?" - Recommendation of Location Privacy Preferences with Local Differential Privacy. Reviewed International journal

Maho Asada, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Yang Cao 0011

33rd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec'19), to appear.   164 - 176   2019

Obfuscation of a Trajectory Terminal using Geo-indistinguishability Reviewed

Maho Asada, Yang Cao, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

DBSJ Japanese Journal   16-J ( 19 )   2018.3

ConTPL: Controlling Temporal Privacy Leakage in Differentially Private Continuous Data Release. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Yang Cao 0011, Li Xiong 0001, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Yonghui Xiao, Si Zhang

Pvldb   11 ( 12 )   2090 - 2093   2018

Rigorous and Flexible Privacy Protection Framework for Utilizing Personal Spatiotemporal Data. Reviewed International journal

Yang Cao 0011

2017

How to Balance Privacy and Money through Pricing Mechanism in Personal Data Market. Reviewed International journal

Rachana Nget, Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2017 Workshop On eCommerce co-located with the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval(eCOM@SIGIR)   2017

LocLok: Location Cloaking with Differential Privacy via Hidden Markov Model. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Yonghui Xiao, Li Xiong 0001, Si Zhang, Yang Cao 0011

Pvldb   10 ( 12 )   1901 - 1904   2017

Quantifying Differential Privacy under Temporal Correlations. Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Yonghui Xiao, Li Xiong 0001

33rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2017, San Diego, CA, USA, April 19-22, 2017   821 - 832   2017

Rigorous and Flexible Privacy Models for Utilizing Personal Spatiotemporal Data. Reviewed International journal

Yang Cao 0011

VLDB 2016 PhD workshop   1671   2016

Differentially Private Real-Time Data Publishing over Infinite Trajectory Streams. Reviewed International journal

Yang Cao 0011, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

IEICE Transactions   99-D ( 1 )   163 - 175   2016

Differentially Private Real-time Data Release over Infinite Trajectory Streams Reviewed International journal

Yang Cao, Mashatoshi Yoshikawa

2015 16th Ieee International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Vol 2   68 - 73   2015

Best Paper Award

2019.6   DEIM (Data Engineering and Information Management) 2019  

Location Privacy for Epidemic Surveillance

2021 - 2023

KDDI Foundation 

Speaker De-identification with Provable Privacy in Speech Data Release

2020.4 - 2021.3

National Institute of Informatics  NII Open Collaborative Research 

Microsoft Collaborative Research Grant (CORE 16) 2020

2020.1 - 2020.12

Microsoft 

Achieving Differential Privacy under Spatiotemporal Correlations

Grant number：19K20269  2019.4 - 2022.3

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Yang Cao

A study on privacy protection of time-series data through negotiation

Grant number：16K12437  2016.4 - 2019.3

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Yoshikawa Masatoshi, CAO Yang