PhD Programme Computer Science, HKBU Query Authentication in Data Outsourcing and Integration Services

Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) Established in 1956 – the 2nd oldest university in Hong Kong 香港歷史第二悠久的大學 Ranked 27th worldwide in 2019 QS Top 50 under 50 QS世界年輕大學 2019年度排名全球第27位 Ranked 55th in Asia in 2018 Times Higher Education 泰晤士高等教育 2018年度亞洲區排名第55位 International faculty 具國際學術背景的一流師資 Query Authentication in Data Outsourcing and Integration Services

Faculty Profile of Computer Science 18 professors and 7 lecturers with PhD degrees awarded by world renowned universities in US, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, UK, HK http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/v1/?page=faculty 3 IEEE Fellows; 8 IEEE / ACM Senior Members Associate Editors of various top-tier journals ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems IEEE Access IEEE Internet of Things Journal IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB)

Departmental Academic Advisors Prof. Anil Jain University Distinguished Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS, IAPR and SPIE Prof. Maria Gini Professor in Computer Science and Engineering University of Minnesota Fellow of ACM and IEEE

Focused Research Areas Health Informatics Media Communication FinTech & Smart City Applications AI & Computational Intelligence Databases & Information Management Pattern Recognition & Machine Learning Systems and Networking Research Focuses Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Theme NIPD-HKBU Joint Lab Lenovo-HKBU Joint Platform Blockchain & FinTech Laboratory HPC Center Infrastructure

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Recently Funded Research Projects Collaborative Research Fund Security and Privacy-enhancing Technologies for Cloud Storage of Big Data (Co-I: Jianliang Xu; CityU / HKBU, PolyU, HKU) General Research Fund Uncovering Spatiotemporal Patterns of Disease Diffusion through Data-Driven Phylogeographic Inference (PI: Jiming Liu) Two Research Issues in Long-Term Visual Tracking: Target Re-detection and Robustness (PI: PC Yuen) Joint Embedding of Sequential Data and Knowledge Graphs with application to Predictive Analytics in Healthcare (PI: William Cheung) Verifiable Publish/Subscribe Queries over Outsourced Data Streams (PI: Jianliang Xu) Efficient Graph Search Algorithms for Public-Private Social Networks (PI: Huang Xin) Privacy-preserving Linear Algebra Framework for Graph Query Algorithms for Massive Networks (PI: Byron Choi) Research on eliciting users’ implicit feedback for constructing their multi-attribute preferences in complex decision support (PI: Li Chen) Energy-efficient Training of Multiple Deep Learning Models on GPU Clusters (PI: Xiaowen Chu) Learning Deep Video Manifolds from Multiple Cameras for Abnormal Crowd Behavior Recognition (PI: Yang Liu)

Research Outputs Over half of research outputs are recognized as world leading or internationally excellent 4-Star: world leading 3-Star: internationally excellent 2-Star: internationally standing 1-Star: regional standing

CSRankings: AI – 64th in the World

CSRankings: DB – 52th in the World

High-tech and Advanced Computer Facilities Big Data Cluster Hadoop + Spark More than 200TB of storage GPU Cluster 12 nodes with 24 Nvidia Tesla K80 Research Cluster More than 40 dual-Xeon servers Top-500 Supercomputer (256- nodes) under the Science Faculty

PhD Programme Structure Normal period of study 4 years Requirement: 22 units course work + a research project Typically, 3 units @ course Guaranteed overseas exchange Perform 6-month research in an overseas university and have a cultural exchange with students/researchers in other countries

Scholarship and Financial Support Studentships are provided to full-time PhD students Current stipend: HK$16,660 per month for 4 years Financial support for carrying out research-related activities such as attending overseas conferences and joining exchange programmes / attachments in world-renowned universities At least HK$55,000 during the study period More details on the incentive schemes: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/v1/?page=rpg_scheme

Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) Outstanding applicants (e.g., national scholarship awardees and/or top 5% of the class) will be recommended for nomination to the HKPFS scheme HKPFS Applicants Scholarship Nominated by HKBU and awarded by HK Government HKD 1,640,000-1,820,000 during 4-year PhD study (Plus up to HKD 219,100 tuition fee waive & overseas conference/attachment support)* Nominated by HKBU but not awarded by HK Government HKD 920,000-960,000 during 4-year PhD study (Plus up to HKD 55,000 overseas conference/attachment support)* * Visit http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/hkpfs for a detailed breakdown

Why Applying HKPFS via HKBU? Additional Support by HKBU Tuition Waiver # (#HK$42,100 per academic year)  Nil First year tuition waiver; tuition waivers for second and third years of study subject to satisfactory academic progress Stipend  HK$903,600 Additional HK$736,000 ~ HK$916,000 for 4-year study Support for Research-related Activities HK$37,800 Additional HK$55,000 Support for Outstanding PhD Graduates Postdoctoral Research Fellowships for furthering research in top overseas universities

Where Our PhD Come and Go? Query Authentication in Data Outsourcing and Integration Services

Enquiry: Ms. Kristina Tsang Email: kristina@comp.hkbu.edu.hk Website: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/