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Modern distributed applications in healthcare, supply chain, and the Internet of Things handle a large amount of data in a diverse application setting with multiple stakeholders. Such applications leverage advanced artificial intelligence…
In encrypted databases, sensitive data is protected from an untrusted server by encrypting columns using partially homomorphic encryption schemes, and storing encryption keys in a trusted client. However, encrypting columns and protecting…
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has attracted significant attention due to its ability to combine the generative capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) with knowledge obtained through efficient retrieval mechanisms over…
Differentially private data generation techniques have become a promising solution to the data privacy challenge -- it enables sharing of data while complying with rigorous privacy guarantees, which is essential for scientific progress in…
The prevalence of biometric authentication has been on the rise due to its ease of use and elimination of weak passwords. To date, most biometric authentication systems have been designed for on-device authentication of the device owner…
In the wake of the swift evolution of technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), the global data landscape undergoes an exponential surge, propelling DNA storage into the spotlight as a prospective medium for contemporary cloud…
Embeddings, which compress information in raw text into semantics-preserving low-dimensional vectors, have been widely adopted for their efficacy. However, recent research has shown that embeddings can potentially leak private information…
With meteoric developments in communication systems and data storage technologies, the need for secure data transmission is more crucial than ever. The level of security provided by any cryptosystem relies on the sensitivity of the private…
A peer-to-peer network, enabling different parties to jointly store and run computations on data while keeping the data completely private. Enigma's computational model is based on a highly optimized version of secure multi-party…
To ensure the secure transmission of data, cryptography is treated as the most effective solution. Cryptographic key is an important entity in this procedure. In general, randomly generated cryptographic key (of 256 bits) is difficult to…
DNA motif discovery is an important issue in gene research, which aims to identify transcription factor binding sites (i.e., motifs) in DNA sequences to reveal the mechanisms that regulate gene expression. However, the phenomenon of data…
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by grounding them in external knowledge. However, its application in sensitive domains is limited by privacy risks. Existing private RAG methods typically rely on…
The emergence of large language models (LLMs), and their increased use in user-facing systems, has led to substantial privacy concerns. To date, research on these privacy concerns has been model-centered: exploring how LLMs lead to privacy…
Data fabric is an automated and AI-driven data fusion approach to accomplish data management unification without moving data to a centralized location for solving complex data problems. In a Federated learning architecture, the global model…
Non-sharable sensitive data collection and analysis in large-scale consortia for genomic research is complicated. Time consuming issues in installing software arise due to different operating systems, software dependencies and running the…
As sequencing technologies become more affordable and genomic databases expand continuously, the reuse of publicly available sequencing data emerges as a powerful strategy for studying microbial pathogens. Indeed, raw sequencing reads…
This work presents a highly optimized implementation of PAC-DB, a recent and promising database privacy model. We prove that our SIMD-PAC-DB can compute the same privatized answer with just a single query, instead of the 128 stochastic…
Motivation: Cutting the cost of DNA sequencing technology led to a quantum leap in the availability of genomic data. While sharing genomic data across researchers is an essential driver of advances in health and biomedical research, the…
Quantum computers promise not only to outperform classical machines for certain important tasks, but also to preserve privacy of computation. For example, the blind quantum computing protocol enables secure delegated quantum computation,…