About

Dr. Chenxi Qiu is currently a tenure-track assistant professor in The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of North Texas (UNT). Before joining UNT, he worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rowan University from 2018 to 2021, and worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar in The College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University from 2016 to 2018.

Dr. Qiu received his Ph.D. degree in The Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University in 2015 and his B.Engr. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Xidian University in China in 2009.

Research interests

Chenxi Qiu’s research interests span the areas of Data Privacy, The Internet of Things (IoT) and Crowdsourcing/Crowdsensing Systems. His research results have been published in highly-competitive conferences and journals (e.g., INFOCOM, AAMAS, IPSN, ICDCS, CIKM, Transactions on Networking (ToN), Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), and Transactions on Computers (TC)).

Dr. Qiu’s curriculum vitae can be found here.

To prospective students: I am always looking for self-motivated students who are interested in the area of data privacy and IoT. If you are interested, please e-mail me with your CV and transcripts.


News

[July 2021] I started my new position as an assistant professor at University of North Texas.

[Feb 2021] Our research work on vehicle location privacy was reported in Rowan Today.

[Oct 2020] Our paper “Location Privacy Protection in Vehicle-Based Spatial Crowdsourcing via Geo-Indistinguishability” was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).

[Aug 2020] Our project about vehicle location privacy “Privacy Protection of Vehicles Location in Spatial Crowdsourcing Under Realistic Adversarial Models” was funded by NSF (CNS2029881). Many thanks to NSF.

[Aug 2020] Our paper “Time-Efficient Geo-Obfuscation to Protect Worker Location Privacy over Road Networks in Spatial Crowdsourcing” was accepted by The ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2020.

[Mar 2020] Our paper “Connectivity Maintenance for Next-Generation Decentralized Vehicle Platoon Networks” was accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN).

[Feb 2020] Our paper “Brake Data-Based Location Tracking in Usage-Based Automotive Insurance Programs” was accepted by The ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) 2020.

[Aug 2019] Our paper “Rating Mechanisms for Sustainability of Crowdsourcing Platforms” was accepted by The ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2019.

[Apr 2019] Our paper “Dynamic Demand Prediction and Allocation in Cloud Service Brokerage” was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC).

[Mar 2019] Our paper “Location Privacy Protection in Vehicle-Based Spatial Crowdsourcing via Geo-Indistinguishability” was accepted by The IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2019.

[Jan 2019] Our paper “Incentivizing Distributive Fairness for Crowdsourcing Workers” was accepted by The International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2019.