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Dr. Chenxi Qiu

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Email: Chenxi.Qiu@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, Clemson University, 2015
    Major: Computer Engineering
  • BS, Xidian University, 2009
    Major: Telecommunication Engineering

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • CSCE 2100 - Foundations of Computing, 3 courses.
  • CSCE 5580 - Computer Networks, 6 courses.
  • CSCE 6940 - Individual Research, 6 courses.
  • CSCE 6950 - Doctoral Dissertation, 3 courses.

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Conference Proceeding

  • Qiu, C., Liu, R., Pappachan, P., Squicciarini, A., Xie, X. Local Metric Differential Privacy. The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).
  • Chen, G., Qiu, C. Context-Aware Metric Differential Privacy. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2024.
  • Yadav, S., Le, T., Dong, S., Fan, H., Yang, Q., Qiu, C., Li, X., Huang, Y. A New Simulation Platform For Learning-Empowered Distributed Sensing. SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2024.
  • Qiu, C., Yadav, S., Ji, Y., Squicciarini, A., Dantu, R., Zhao, J., Xu, C. Fine-Grained Geo-Obfuscation to Protect Workers’ Location Privacy in Large-Scale Time-Sensitive Spatial Crowdsourcing. 27th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2024.
  • Yadav, S., Yu, C., Xie, X., Huang, Y., Qiu, C. Protecting Vehicle Location Privacy with Contextually-Driven Synthetic Location Generation. The annual IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2024.
  • Jia, F., Qiu, C., Rajtmajer, S., Squicciarini, A. Content Promotion in Networked Disclosure Game. Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2023.
  • Pappachan, P., Qiu, C., Squicciarini, A., Manjunath, V. User Customizable and Robust Geo-Indistinguishability for Location Privacy. International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2023.
  • Pappachan, P., Hunsur Manjunath , V., Qiu, C., Squicciarini, A., Onweller, H. CORGI: An interactive framework for Customizable and Robust Location Obfuscation. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) Demo 2023.
  • Qiu, C., Yan, L., Squicciarini, A., Zhao, J., Xu, C., Pappachan, P. TrafficAdaptor: An Adaptive Obfuscation Strategy for Vehicle Location Privacy Against Vehicle Traffic Flow Aware Attacks. Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL) 2022.
  • Qiu, C., Yadav, S., Squicciarini, A., Yang, Q., Fu, S., Zhao, J., Xu, C. Distributed Data-Sharing Consensus in Cooperative Perception of Autonomous Vehicles. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2022.

    • Journal Article

  • Qiu, C., Yan, L., Huang, Y., Wu, B., Pappachan, P., Zhao, J., Xu, C. Location Privacy Protection for Vehicles Against Traffic Flow Aware Attacks via Geo-Obfuscation. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing.
  • Qiu, C., Shen, H., Sarker, A., Soundararaj, V., Devine, M., Rindos, A., Ford, E. Towards Green Transportation: Fast Vehicle Velocity Optimization for Fuel Efficiency. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
  • Sarker, A., Shen, H., Qiu, C., Uehara, H., Zhang, K. (2023). Brake Signal-based Driver’s Location Tracking in Usage-based Auto Insurance Programs. IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
  • Yan, L., Shen, H., Zhao, J., Xu, C., Luo, F., Qiu, C., Zhang, Z., Mahmud, S. (2021). CatCharger: Deploying In-motion Wireless Chargers in a Metropolitan Road Network via Categorization and Clustering of Vehicle Traffic. IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
  • Wu, B., Tang, Y., Qiu, C., Huang, Y., Huang, C., Prucnal, P. (2021). Secure Analysis of Optical Steganography With Spectral Signature Measurement. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 33 (17) 971 - 974.
  • Shen, H., Qiu, C. (2021). Scheduling Inter-Datacenter Video Flows for Cost Efficiency. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 14 (3) 834 - 849.
  • Wu, B., Yang, Q., Qiu, C., Tang, Y. (2021). Wideband Anti-Jamming Based on Free Space Optical Communication and Photonic Signal Processing. Sensors. 21 (4) 12. MDPI.
  • Wang, N., Li, J., Ho, S., Qiu, C. (2021). Distributed machine learning for energy trading in electric distribution system of the future. 34 (1) Elsevier.

Presentations Given

    Panel Presentation

  • Ji, Y. (Coordinator/Organizer), Tunc, C. (Panelist), Qiu, C. (Panelist), Feng, Y. (Panelist), Texas CSTA Chapters Conference 2023, Recent Advances in Security and Privacy, United States of America. (2023 - 2023).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Qiu, C. (Principal), "Customizable Geo-Obfuscation to Protect Users' Location Privacy in Mobile Crowdsourcing," sponsored by NSF, Federal, $344997 Funded. (2023 - 2026).
  • Huang, Y. (Principal), Li, X. (Co-Principal), Yang, Q. (Co-Principal), Fan, H. (Co-Principal), Qiu, C. (Co-Principal), Wei, Y. (Co-Principal), Baba, A.I. (Supporting), "Learning Empowered Distributed Sensing," sponsored by Army Research Lab/Northeastern University, Federal, $2069324 Funded. (2023 - 2024).
  • Qiu, C. (Principal), "Privacy protection of Vehicles location in Spatial Crowdsourcing under realistic adversarial models," sponsored by NSF, National, $243107 Funded. (2021 - 2023).

Service

University Service

  • Committee Member, Tenured/Tenure track search committee. (September 1, 2023 - June 1, 2024).
  • Member, Clinical Search Committee. (January 2022 - August 1, 2022).

Professional Service

  • Committee Member, The IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC 2023). (November 12, 2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Mobility: Operations, Services, and Technologies. (November 11, 2023 - March 2, 2024).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems. (January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Networking Letters. (January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. (January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. (January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. (January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023).
  • Committee Member, International Conference on Numerical Combustion (ICNC 2024). (January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023).
  • Committee Member, Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society 2023. (January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023).
  • Committee Member, ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. (June 1, 2023 - August 1, 2023).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, GeoInformatica. (January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Internet of Things Journal. (January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Networking Letters. (January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. (January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. (January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. (January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. (January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. (January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks. (January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022).
  • Committee Member, Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society 2022. (August 31, 2022 - November 7, 2022).
  • Committee Member, ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. (June 22, 2022 - August 1, 2022).
  • Committee Member, The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2022). (September 11, 2021 - July 25, 2022).
  • Committee Member, The IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC 2022). (November 12, 2021 - May 19, 2022).
  • Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Connected and Autonomous Driving. (November 11, 2021 - March 2, 2022).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. (January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. (January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. (June 1, 2020 - December 31, 2021).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, NSF. (July 22, 2021 - July 23, 2021).
  • Session Chair, The ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) 2021. (May 18, 2021 - May 21, 2021).