Youwen Zhu                                         中文版

Professor,  Ph.D

College of Computer Science and Technology,

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Office:  29 Jiangjun Road, Nanjing 211106, China

Email:   zhuyouwen@gmail.com          zhuyw@nuaa.edu.cn

Currently, I am a professor with the College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. From August 2012 to July 2014, as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow, I worked at Prof. Tsuyoshi Takagi's group, Institute of Mathematics for Industry in Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. The fellowship is supported by JSPS (Japan Society of the Promotion of Science) project of Japan. Before that, I received my B.A. in science communication in 2007 and PhD degree in computer science in 2012, respectively, both from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

I am interested in the area of applied cryptography, AI security and privacy preservation etc.

Selected Publications (The author with * is corresponding author)

[1]    Xingyu He, Youwen Zhu*, Rongke Liu, Gaoning Pan, Changyu Dong. Addressing Sensitivity Distinction in Local Differential Privacy: A General Utility-Optimized Framework. The 34th USENIX Security Symposium, 2025, pp: 2753-2769.

[2]    Youwen Zhu, Shibo Dai, Pengfei Zhang, Xiqi Kuang. Numerical Data Collection under Input-Discriminative Local Differential Privacy. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 17 September 2025, DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2025.3610932.

[3]    Youwen Zhu, Yuanyuan Hong, Qiao Xue, Xiao Lan, Yushu Zhang, Yong Xiang. LDGI: Location-Discriminative Geo-Indistinguishability for Location Privacy. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2025, Volume: 37, Issue: 3, Pages: 1282-1293.

[4]    Yuanyuan Wang, Youwen Zhu*, Shaowei Wang, Qiao Xue, Jian Wang. GFD: An Effective Defense Against Targeted Poisoning Attacks for Local Differential Privacy Frequency Estimation, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2025, Vol. 20, pp: 8863-8875.

[5]    Youwen Zhu, Yiran Cao, Qiao Xue, Qihui Wu, Yushu Zhang. Heavy Hitter Identification over Large-domain Set-valued Data with Local Differential Privacy. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2024, Vol. 19, pp: 414-426.

[6]    Shunsheng Zhang, Youwen Zhu*, Ao Zeng. Collusion-Resilient Privacy-Preserving Database Fingerprinting, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2024, Vol. 19, pp: 8306-8321.

[7]    Yue Zhang, Youwen Zhu*, Shaowei Wang, Xiaohua Huang. Mean Estimation of Numerical Data under (ε, δ)-Utility-optimized Local Differential Privacy. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2024, Vol. 19, pp: 9656 - 9669.

[8]    Xingxin Li, Youwen Zhu*, Jian Wang, Zhe Liu, Yining Liu, Mingwu Zhang. On the Soundness and Security of Privacy-Preserving SVM for Outsourcing Data Classification, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 15(5): 906-912, 2018.

[9]    Zhiqiang Zhang, Youwen Zhu*, Xiaohui Ding, Jian Wang, Junbeom Hur. A Fine-Grained Data Access Control Scheme with Policy Privacy and Attribute Privacy in Vehicle-to-Grid. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2025, Volume: 16, Issue: 4, Pages: 3323-3335.

[10] Youwen Zhu, Qimeng Song, Yonglong Luo. Differentially Private Top-k Flows Estimation Mechanism in Network Traffic, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2024, Volume: 11, Issue: 3, Pages: 2462-2472.

Professional Activities:

Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Designs Codes and Cryptography, Science China Information Sciences, Computer & Security, Frontier of Computer Science in China, Journal of Supercomputing, Journal of Internet Technology, Journal of Computer Security, Chinese Journal of Electronics, International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, Journal of Information Processing

PC / Reviewer / External Reviewer for International Conferences: SpaCCS’16, TSP’16, ChinaCom’15, CWBCN’15, ICCCS’15, ASIACRYPT’13, PKC’13, Securecomm’13, IWSEC’14, ISPEC’13, Provsec’13, ACNS’12, ACISP’12, ICICS’12, Securecomm’12, ISC’12, Provsec’12, ARES’12, ...

Links:

NTL: http://www.shoup.net/ntl/

CrypTool: https://www.cryptool.org/en

Crypto++ Library: http://www.cryptopp.com/

CCF: http://www.ccf.org.cn/sites/ccf/

CACR: http://www.cacrnet.org.cn/

CORE: http://www.core.edu.au/