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Minxin Du (杜闵欣)

Research Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Email: minxin.du AT polyu DOT edu DOT hk

Group: ASTAPLE Lab

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Bio

I am a Research Assistant Professor in the Dept. of EEE at PolyU. My research interests:

  • Differential Privacy (DP). Its new notions and applications in AI (notably, NLP). My thesis is about a new paradigm for training and inference of large language models (LLMs);
  • Applied Cryptography. Searchable Symmetric Encryption (SSE) (e.g., shortest distance queries on encrypted graphs) and privacy-preserving ML via cryptographic tools (e.g., MPC).

I earned Ph.D. degree from Department of Information Engineering (IE) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). I'm fortunately working with Prof. Sherman S. M. Chow. Prior to that, I received M.Eng. in School of Cyber Science and Engineering at Wuhan University (WHU) in 2018, advised by Prof. Qian Wang, and B.S. in HongYi Class (or honor college) of Computer Science at WHU in 2015. In 2021, I did a summer intern at the Shield Lab of Huawei.


News

  • [Oct. 2024] Invited to serve as a PC member of Privacy Track of ACM CCS '25.
  • [Aug. 2024] Invited to serve as a PC member of PoPETs '25.
  • [July 2024] Invited to serve as a PC member of Usenix Security '25.
  • [July 2024] Our paper is accepted to IEEE TIFS.
  • [May 2024] Our paper is accepted to ACL '24 (Main Conference).
  • [May 2024] Invited to serve as a PC member of NeurIPS '24 (Datasets and Benchmarks Track).
  • [Jan. 2024] Invited to serve as a PC member of Usenix Security '24.
  • [Jan. 2024] Invited to serve as a PC member of IEEE MASS '24.
  • [Dec. 2023] Invited to serve as a PC member of Security, Privacy, and Trust in IEEE ICDCS '24.
  • [Dec. 2023] Invited to serve as a PC member of Privacy Track of ACM CCS '24.
  • [Aug. 2023] Invited to serve as a PC member of AAAI '24.
  • [Jun. 2023] Our paper is accepted to ADMA '23.
  • [May 2023] Our paper is accepted to ACM CCS '23.
  • [Mar. 2023] Selected as 1 (out of 20) SURI, organized by EPFL, Ph.D. fellowship.
  • [Jan. 2023] Our paper "Sanitizing Sentence Embeddings (and Labels) for Local Differential Privacy" got accepted to TheWebConf'23.
  • [Jan. 2023] Our "Shielding Graph for eXact Analytics with SGX" was accepted to IEEE TDSC.
  • [Aug. 2022] Invited to serve as a PC member of AAAI '23.
  • [Mar. 2022] One paper "Encrypted Video Search: Scalable, Modular, and Content-based" got accepted to ACM MMSys'22 (Won Best Student Paper Award)!
  • [Aug. 2021] Invited to serve as a PC member of AAAI '22.
  • [Aug. 2021] I received the best teaching assistant (TA) award for CSCI2100E, Term 2 20-21.
  • [Aug. 2021] Our paper "Differential Privacy for Text Analytics via Natural Text Sanitization" was accepted to ACL-IJCNLP'21, Findings! It was also accepted to PPML@Crypto'21!
  • [Aug. 2021] This homepage was online!

Last Updated: Oct. 2024