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Ninghui Li

Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Mid career · publishing since 2001
Cryptography and Data SecurityPrivacy-Preserving Technologies in DataAccess Control and TrustSecurity and Verification in ComputingPrivacy, Security, and Data Protection

Publications

298

Citations

17,967

Est. group size

~4

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

25

Publishing since 2001

Research summary
AI-generated

Ninghui Li's research focuses on data privacy and security, particularly methods for protecting individual privacy while still allowing useful data analysis, such as differential privacy (a mathematical framework for adding controlled noise to data to prevent identification of individuals) and access control systems that manage who can view or use sensitive data. Recent work also examines privacy risks in large language models, secure electronic voting systems, and privacy-preserving machine learning techniques like federated learning across multiple data sources. This work is relevant to students interested in building systems that balance data utility with formal privacy and security guarantees.

Differential privacy and data anonymizationAccess control and security analysis (including Android systems)Privacy-preserving machine learning and federated learningPrivacy risks in emerging technologies (LLMs, electronic voting)Usable privacy and security (user comprehension studies)

Publication output was relatively steady and higher between 2017-2020 (14-21 papers/year) but has slowed over the last five years, averaging about 6 papers per year with some year-to-year fluctuation.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 6.0/year recently
2017: 19 publications172018: 21 publications21182019: 14 publications192020: 17 publications202021: 7 publications212022: 11 publications222023: 5 publications232024: 4 publications242025: 10 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×21
  • Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting×8
  • Synthesis lectures on information security, privacy, and trust×5
  • Encyclopedia of Database Systems×4
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing×3
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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