Gabriel Ghinita

Dr. Gabriel Ghinita is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science at University of Massachusetts, Boston (UMB). Prior to joining UMB, he was a Research Associate affiliated with the Computer Science Department at Purdue University, and the Purdue Cyber Center. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (2008) from the National University of Singapore, and a BS degree in Computer Science (2003) from Politechnica University of Bucharest. Dr. Ghinitas research interests lie in...See more

Dr. Gabriel Ghinita is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science at University of Massachusetts, Boston (UMB). Prior to joining UMB, he was a Research Associate affiliated with the Computer Science Department at Purdue University, and the Purdue Cyber Center. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (2008) from the National University of Singapore, and a BS degree in Computer Science (2003) from Politechnica University of Bucharest. Dr. Ghinitas research interests lie in the area of databases, with focus on information security and privacy. His work includes research papers on Anonymous Publication of Geospatial, Relational and Set valued data, Privacy Preserving Sharing of Location Data, Secure Data Outsourcing and Secure Data Provenance, and Trustworthiness Assessment. He is also interested in spatio-temporal databases and data management in large-scale distributed environments. Dr. Ghinitas professional service includes participation on the Program Committeeof top database conferences (ACM SIGMOD, PVLDB, ICDE), as well as reviewing for journals such as VLDBJ, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TMC, IEEE TDSC, and GeoInformatica. See less