Professor Xun Yi - RMIT University

Position: Professor

College / Portfolio: School of Science Cluster

School / Department: Computer Science and Software Engineering

Phone: +61 3 9925 1902

Email: xun.yi@rmit.edu.au

Campus: Melbourne City Campus

Contact me about: Research supervision

Overview

Xun Yi is currently a Professor with School of Computer Science and IT, RMIT University, Australia. His research interests include data privacy, cloud security, cyber security, wireless and mobile security, applied cryptography. He has published more than 150 research papers in international journals, such as IEEE Trans. Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Trans. Wireless Communication, IEEE Trans. Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Trans. Circuit and Systems, and conference proceedings. Since 2014, he has been an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. Dependable and Secure Computing.

Research funding

Australian Research Council Discovery Project (2007-2009)
DP0770479: Privacy Protection in Distributed Data Mining
Chief Investigators: Prof. X. Yi and Prof. Y. Zhang
Australian Research Council Discovery Project (2009 – 2011)
DP0988411: Private Data Warehouse Query
Chief Investigator: Prof. X. Yi Partner Investigator: Prof. E. Okamoto
Australian Research Council Linkage Project (2010-2013)
LP100200682: Real-Time and Self-Adaptive Stream Data Analyser for Intensive Care Management
Chief Investigators: Prof. Y. Zhang, Prof. X. Yi, and etc.

Industry Experience

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2014.
Program Co-Chair, Australasian Information Security Conference (AISC), Canberra, Australia, 2016.
Program Co-Chair, Australasian Information Security Conference (AISC), Sydney, Australia, 2015.
Member of Program Committee, 34th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Madrid, Spain, 2014
Member of Program Committee, 19th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORCS), Wroclaw, Poland, 2014
Member of Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Sydney, Australia, 2014.
Member of Program Committee, 19th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP), Wollongong, Australia, 2014
Member of Program Committee, 3rd IEEE/ASE International Conference on Cyber Security, Stanford, CA, USA, 2014
Member of Program Committee, 8th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS), Xi’an, China, 2014.
Member of Program Committee, Australasian Information Security Conference (AISC), New Zealand, 2014.
Member of Program Committee, IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, 2013.
Member of Program Committee, Australasian Information Security Conference (AISC), Adelaide, 2013.
Member of Program Committee, 2nd IEEE/ASE International Conference on Cyber Security, Washington D.C., USA, 2012.
Member of Program Committee, 1st IEEE/ASE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2012.
Member of Program Committee, Australasian Information Security Conference (AISC), Melbourne, 2012
Member of Program Committee, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust, MIT, Boston, 2011.
Member of Program Committee, 6th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (Asia CCS), Hong Kong, China, 2011.
Member of Program Committee, Australasian Information Security Conference (AISC), Perth, 2011

Publications

Badsha, S.,Yi, X.,Khalil, I.,Kelarev, A. (2017). Private Recommendations Generation for Vertically Partitioned Datasets In: 21st Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems 2017 Proceedings, Lankawi, Malaysia, 16-20 July 2017
Alabdulatif, A.,Kumarage, H.,Khalil, I.,Yi, X. (2017). Privacy-preserving anomaly detection in cloud with lightweight homomorphic encryption In: Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 90, 28 - 45
Badsha, S.,Yi, X.,Khalil, I.,Liu, D.,Nepal, S.,Bertino, E. (2017). Privacy preserving location recommendations In: Proceedings 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2017), Puschino, Russia, 7-11 October 2017
Alabdulatif, A.,Kumarage, H.,Khalil, I.,Atiquzzaman, M.,Yi, X. (2017). Privacy-preserving cloud-based billing with lightweight homomorphic encryption for sensor-enabled smart grid infrastructure In: IET Wireless Sensor Systems, , 1 - 11
Alabdulatif, A.,Khalil, I.,Reynolds, M.,Kumarage, H.,Yi, X. (2017). Privacy-preserving data clustering in cloud computing based on fully homomorphic encryption In: Proceedings of the 21st Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2017), Langkawi, Malaysia, 16-20 July 2017
Cui, H.,Ho Au, M.,Baodong, Q.,Deng, R.,Yi, X. (2017). Fuzzy public-key encryption based on biometric data In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10592, Xi'an, China, 23-25 Oct 2017
Gheid, Z.,Challal, Y.,Yi, X.,Derhab, A. (2017). Efficient and privacy-aware multi-party classification protocol for human activity recognition In: Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 98, 84 - 96
Dai, H.,Wang, M.,Yi, X.,Yang, G.,Bao, J. (2017). Secure MAX/MIN queries in two-tiered wireless sensor networks In: IEEE Access, 5, 14478 - 14489
Rahman, M.,Khalil, I.,Yi, X.,Dong, H. (2017). Highly imperceptible and reversible text steganography using invisible character based codeword In: Proceedings of the 2017 Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, Langkawi. Malaysia, 19 July 2017
Yang, X.,Yi, X.,Cui, H.,Yang, X.,Nepal, S.,Huang, X.,Zeng, Y. (2017). A practical authentication protocol for anonymous web browsing In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference (ISPEC 2017), Melbourne, Australia, 13-15 Decmeber 2017

View more outputs from this academic in the RMIT Research Repository

Grants

Privacy-Preserving Cloud Data Mining-as-a-Service. Funded by: ARC Linkage Project Grant 2016 from (2018 to 2021)
Data61 PhD Scholarship - Privacy Preserving Recommender Systems - student Shahriar Badsha. Funded by: Data61 (CSIRO contract) from (2017 to 2019)
Security and Privacy of Individual Data Used to Extract Public Information.. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects 2016 from (2016 to 2019)
FWPA Data Aggregation Program - Data Security. Funded by: Forest and Wood Products RDC Projects Grant 2015 from (2015 to 2015)
Privacy Preserving Data Sharing in Electronic Health Environment - Administered by Victoria University. Funded by: ARC Linkage Projects via Other University 2015 from (2015 to 2018)

Supervisor Projects

Note: Supervision projects since 2004

5 PhD Current Supervisions

Supervisor Interests

Date privacy, Privacy-preserving data mining, Network security protocols, Mobile and wireless communication security protocols, Applied cryptography, E-Commerce security, Mobile agent security