Dr. Gabriel Ghinita

Associate Professor

Email

gghinita@hbku.edu.qa

Dr. Gabriel Ghinita

Associate Professor

Educational Qualifications

PhD in Computer Science

BSc in Computer Science

Entity

College of Science and Engineering

Division

Information & Computing Technology

Biography

Dr. Gabriel Ghinita is an Associate Professor with the ICT Division, College of Science and Engineering, HBKU. Previously, he was a Tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science at UMass Boston, Visiting Professor at University of Southern California; and Research Associate with Purdue Cyber Center and Purdue Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS).

 

PhD in Computer Science

National University of Singapore, Singapore

2008

BSc in Computer Science

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

2003

Associate Professor

Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Boston

2016 - 2022

Visiting Associate Professor

Computer Science Department, University of Southern California

2018 - 2019

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Boston

2011 - 2016

Research Associate

Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), Purdue University

2008 - 2011

S. Zeighami, R. Ahuja, G. Ghinita, C. Shahabi; A Neural Database for Differentially Private Spatial Range Queries; In Proceedings of Very Large Data Bases (PVLDB); 2022

S. Zeighami, R. Ahuja, G. Ghinita, C. Shahabi; Secure Dynamic Skyline Queries Using Result Materialization; In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (IEEE ICDE); 2021

H. To, G. Ghinita, L. Fan, C. Shahabi; Differentially Private Location Protection for Worker Datasets in Spatial Crowdsourcing; IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC); 2017

H. To, G. Ghinita, C. Shahabi; A Framework for Protecting Worker Location Privacy in Spatial Crowdsourcing; In Proceedings of Very Large Data Bases (PVLDB); 2014

S. Choi, G. Ghinita, H.-S. Lim, E. Bertino; Secure kNN Query Processing in Untrusted Cloud Environments; IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), 2014

  • 2012, Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Orlando, USA
  • 2009, Outstanding Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL GIS), Seattle, USA
  • 2016, Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (IEEE MDM), Hong Kong, China
  • 2020, Outstanding Reviewer Award, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Dallas, USA