Balaji Palanisamy
Assistant Professor
135 N. Bellefield Avenue, Room 704
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Email: bpalan@pitt(-dot--edu)
Phone: 412.624.0232
I am an Assistant Professor in the School
of Information Science in University of Pittsburgh. My
research broadly spans the areas of Distributed Systems and Data Privacy. At
Pitt, I co-direct research in the
Laboratory for Education and Research on Security Assured Information Systems
(LERSAIS). .Prior to joining
University of Pittsburgh, I received my Ph. D. degree in Computer Science from Georgia
Institute of Technology.
PhD positions: I am looking for self-motivated and dedicated Ph.D students interested in my research areas. If you are
interested in pursuing research under my supervision, please apply to
our graduate program. More information on our research program can be found at
our lab website: LERSAIS
Publications Teaching Students CV Contact
· INFSCI 2750 –Cloud Computing (Spring 2016, Spring 2017)
· INFSCI 2955 – Special topics Systems - Cloud Computing (Spring 2015)
· INFSCI 1074 – Computer Security (Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016)
· INFSCI 2150 – Information Security & Privacy (Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2017)
· Chao Li - PhD advisee since Fall 2014, Research focus:
Multi-level Data and Location Privacy
·Jinlai Xu -PhD advisee since Fall 2015, Research focus: Contracts-based Federated Cloud Computing
BOOK CHAPTER:
· Balaji Palanisamy, James Joshi, “Protecting Privacy in Indoor Positioning Systems”, in “Indoor Wayfinding and Navigation”, 2015. (Book Editor: Hassan Karimi et. al)
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:
· Nathalie Baracaldo, Balaji
Palanisamy, James Joshi , “G-SIR: An Insider Attack
Resilient Geo-Social Access Control Framework “ in IEEE
Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC 2017). (Pdf)
· Qiulei Guo,
Balaji Palanisamy, Hassan A. Karimi and Liming Zhang "Distributed
Algorithms for Spatial Retrieval Queries in Geospatial Analysis” in Services Transactions on Cloud Computing (STCC 2016). (Pdf)
· Kisung Lee, Ling Liu, Balaji Palanisamy and Emre Yigitoglu, "Road Network-Aware Spatial Alarms" in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC 2016). (Pdf)
· Balaji Palanisamy and Ling Liu, "Attack-resilient Mix-zones over Road Networks: Architecture and Algorithms" in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC 2015). (Pdf)
· Balaji Palanisamy,
Aameek Singh and Ling Liu, "Cost-effective
Resource Provisioning for MapReduce in a Cloud", in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS 2015). (Pdf)
· Balaji Palanisamy, Ling Liu, Kisung Lee, Shicong Meng, Yuzhe Tang and Yang Zhou, "Anonymizing Continuous Queries with Delay-tolerant Mix-zones on Road Networks", Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD 2014). (Pdf)
· Balaji Palanisamy and Ling Liu, "Effective Mix-zone Anonymization for Mobile Travelers”, Geoinformatica 2014. (Pdf)
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS:
· Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy, "Emerge: Self-emerging
Data Release using Cloud Data Storage", Proc. of 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing,
Honolulu, USA. (IEEE CLOUD 2017). (Pdf)
· Jinlai Xu and Balaji Palanisamy, “Cost-aware resource management for federated clouds using resource sharing contracts”, Proc. of 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, Honolulu, USA. (IEEE CLOUD 2017). (Pdf)
· Jinlai Xu and Balaji Palanisamy, Heiko
Ludwig, and Qingyang Wang, “Zenith: Utility-aware Resource Allocation for Edge
Computing.”, Proc.
of 1st IEEE International Conference on
Edge Computing, Honolulu, USA. (IEEE EDGE 2017). (Pdf)
· Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy and James Joshi,
"Differentially Private Trajectory Analysis for Points-of-Interest
Recommendation", Proc. of 6th IEEE
International Congress on Big Data , Honolulu, USA.
(IEEE
BigData Congress 2017), (Pdf)
· Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy, "Timed-release of Self-emerging
Data using Distributed Hash Tables", Proc. of 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems,
Atlanta, USA. (ICDCS 2017). (Pdf)
· Hui Chen, Qingyang Wang, Balaji Palanisamy, and
Pengcheng Xiong, “DCM: Dynamic
Concurrency Management for Scaling n-Tier Applications in Cloud”, Proc.
of the 37th International Conference on
Distributed Computing Systems, Atlanta, GA, USA. (ICDCS 2017). (Pdf)
· Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy, Aravind
Kalaivanan and Sriram Raghunathan, "ReverseCloak: A Reversible Multi-level
Location Privacy Protection System", Proc.
of 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems,
Atlanta, USA. (ICDCS 2017). (System Demonstration) (Pdf)
· Balaji Palanisamy,
Chao Li and Prashant Krishnamurthy, "Group Differential Privacy-preserving
Disclosure of Multi-level Association Graphs", Proc. of 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing
Systems, Atlanta, USA. (ICDCS 2017) (poster)
(Pdf)
Leila Karimi, Balaji Palanisamy, James Joshi, “A Dynamic
Privacy Aware Access Control Model for Location Based Services”, Proc. of 1st International Workshop on
Privacy in Collaborative & Social Computing, PiCSoC 2016, in conjunction with 2nd IEEE International Conference
on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC
2016) (Pdf)
· Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy and James Joshi, "SocialMix: Privacy-aware Communication in Online Social Networks", Proc. of 23rd IEEE International Conference on Web Services, San Francisco, USA. (ICWS ’16) (Pdf)
· Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy, "ReverseCloak: Protecting Multi-level Location Privacy over Road Networks", Proc. of 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Melbourne, Australia. (CIKM ’15) (Pdf)
· Chao Li and Balaji
Palanisamy, "De-anonymizable Location
Cloaking for Privacy-controlled Mobile Systems", Proc. of 9th International Conference on
Network and System Security (NSS 2015) , New York, USA (Pdf)
· Hardik
Vasa, Anirudh Vasudevan and
Balaji Palanisamy, "Link
Analysis of Wikipedia Documents using MapReduce",
Proc. of 4th IEEE International Workshop
on Data Integration and Mining (DIM),
collocated with 16th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and
Integration, San Franscisco, USA (IRI
2015) (Pdf)
· Qiulei
Quo, Balaji Palanisamy and Hassan
Karimi, "A
Distributed Polygon Retrieval Algorithm using MapReduce",
Proc. of International Symposium on Spatio-temporal Computing, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
(ISSC ’15)
· Balaji Palanisamy and Ling Liu, " Privacy-preserving Data Publishing in the Cloud: A Multi-level Utility Controlled Approach", Proc. of 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, New York, USA. (IEEE CLOUD ’15) (Pdf)
· Qiulei Quo, Balaji Palanisamy and Hassan Karimi, "A MapReduce Algorithm for Polygon Retrieval in Geospatial Analysis", Proc. of 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, New York, USA. (IEEE CLOUD ’15) (Pdf)
· Yang Zhou, Ling Liu, Xianqiang Bao, Kisung Lee, Calton Pu, Balaji Palanisamy, Emre Yigitoglu, Qi Zhang, "Clustering Service Networks with Entity, Attribute and Link Heterogeneity", Proc. of 22nd IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS’ 15), New York, USA. (Pdf)
· Yuzhe Tang, Arun Iyengar, Wei Tan, Liana
Fong, Ling Liu and Balaji Palanisamy, "Lightweight Indexing for
Log-Structured Key-Value Stores", Proc.
of 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (IEEE/ACM CCGrid ’15) (Best Paper
Award) (Pdf)
· Qiulei Quo, Balaji Palanisamy and Hassan Karimi, "A
Distributed Polygon Retrieval Algorithm using MapReduce", Proc. of 10th IEEE International Conference on
Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, (Collaboratecom 2014) , Miami, Florida, USA (Poster) (Pdf)
· Balaji Palanisamy, Sheldon Sensenig, James Joshi and Rose Constantino, "LEAF:A Privacy-conscious
Social Network-based Intervention Tool for IPV Survivors", Proc. of 15th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI 2014) , San Franscisco, USA (Pdf)
· Lei Jin, Balaji Palanisamy and James Joshi, "Compromising
Cloaking-based Location Privacy Preserving Mechanisms with Location Injection
Attacks", Proc. of 21st ACM Conference on Computer and
Communications Security (CCS 2014) , Scottsdale, Arizona, USA (Poster) (Pdf)
· Nathalie
Baracaldo, Balaji Palanisamy and
James Joshi, "Geo-Social-RBAC: A
Location-based Socially Aware Access Control Framework", Proc. of 8th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2014) , Xi’an, China (Pdf)
· Balaji Palanisamy,
Aameek Singh, Nagapramod Mandagere, Gabriel Alatore and
Ling Liu, "VNCache: Map Reduce Analysis for Cloud-archived Data", Proc. of
14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (IEEE/ACM CCGrid ’14) (Pdf)
· Balaji Palanisamy,
Aameek Singh, Ling Liu and Bryan Langston, "Cura: A Cost-Optimized
Model for MapReduce in a Cloud", Proc. of 27th IEEE International Parallel and
Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS
2013). (Pdf)
· Balaji Palanisamy, Sindhuja
Ravichandran, Ling Liu, Binh
Han and Kisung Lee, "Road Network Mix-zones for
Anonymous Location Based Services", Demonstration at 28th IEEE
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE' 13). (Pdf)
· Kisung Lee, Ling Liu, Binh Han, Balaji Palanisamy, "ROADALARM: a Spatial
Alarm System on Road Networks", Demonstration at 28th IEEE
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE' 13). (Pdf)
· Balaji Palanisamy, Ling Liu, Kisung Lee, Aameek Singh and Yuzhe Tang, "Location Privacy with Road Network
Mix-zones", Proc. of 8th IEEE
International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (IEEE
MSN'12). (Pdf)
· Shicong Meng, Arun Iyengar, Isabelle Rouvellou, Ling
Liu, Kisung Lee, Balaji Palanisamy and Yuzhe Tang, "Reliable State Monitoring with
Messaging Quality Awareness", Proc. of IEEE
International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD' 12).
(Pdf) (Received Best Paper Award)
· Kisung Lee, Ling Liu, Shicong Meng, Balaji Palanisamy, "Road Network Aware Spatial Alarm Processing", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS' 12). (Pdf)
· Balaji Palanisamy and Ling Liu, "MobiMix: Protecting Location Privacy with Mix-zones over Road Networks", Proc. of 27th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE' 11). (Pdf)
· Balaji Palanisamy, Aameek Singh, Ling Liu and Bhushan Jain, "Purlieus: Locality-aware Resource Allocation for MapReduce in a Cloud", Proc. of IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC' 11). (Pdf)
· Yuzhe Tang, Ting Wang, Ling Liu, Shicong Meng, Balaji Palanisamy, "Privacy Preserving Indexing for eHealth Information Networks", Proc. of 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM' 11) (Pdf)
· Mustaque Ahamad, Douglas Blough, Ling Liu, David Bauer, Apurva Mohan, Daisuke Mashima, Bhuvan Bamba, Balaji Palanisamy, Ramkumar Krishnan, Italo Dacosta, and Ketan Kalgaonkar, "MedVault: Health Professional Access to Source-Verifiable Patient-Centric PHR Repository", at poster session in 19th Usenix Security Symposium, (USENIX Security' 10).
· Priyanka Prabhu, Shamkant B. Navathe, Stephen Tyler, Venu Dasigi, Neha Narkhede, Balaji Palanisamy, "LITSEEK: Public health literature search by metadata enhancement with External knowledge bases" , in workshop of 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM' 09 ) (Pdf)
· Apurva Mohan , David Bauer, Douglas M. Blough, Mustaque Ahamad, Bhuvan Bamba, Ramkumar Krishnan, Ling Liu, Daisuke Mashima, Balaji Palanisamy, "A Patient-centric, Attribute-based, Source-verifiable Framework for Health Record Sharing", GIT CERCS Technical Report No. GIT-CERCS-09-11, 2009, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. (Pdf)
· N.Sreenath, N. Devendra and Balaji Palanisamy, "Dynamic Routing of Reliability-Differentiated Connections in Optical Burst Switched Networks", in Proc. Managing Complexity in a Distributed World, IISc Centenary Conference, (MCDES' 08).
· Balaji
Palanisamy, T.Siva
Prasad, and N.Sreenath, "Traffic Adaptive
Wavelength Routing in IP-Over-WDM Networks", in Proc. 14th
International conference on Advanced Computing and Communications, (ADCOM'
06) (Received
Best Paper Award)
· N.Sreenath and Balaji
Palanisamy, "An Online Distributed Protocol for the
Restoration of Connectivity in the Virtual topology after Link failure in IP
over WDM networks", in Proc. International conference on Networking and
Services, Silicon Valley, (ICNS' 06) .
· N.Sreenath , Balaji Palanisamy, and S.R.Nadarajan, "Grooming of Multicast Sessions in Sparse Splitting WDM Mesh Networks using Virtual Source Based Trees", in Proc. International Conference on Systems and Networks Communication, (ICSNC' 06).
· N.Sreenath and Balaji Palanisamy, "A Two-Phase
Distributed Reconfiguration Algorithm for Node Failures in IP-Over-WDM Networks",
in Proc. International Conference on Systems and Networks Communication,
(ICSNC' 06).
· Balaji Palanisamy, "PeerTalk: A Secure, fully Decentralized Peer-to-peer Instant Messaging System", in Proc. International Conference on Information Security, (ICIS' 05)
Patents:
· Balaji Palanisamy and Aameek Singh, "Locality-aware Resource Allocation for
Cloud Computing", United States Patent Application No. 13/481,614
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:
· Journal Editorial Boards:
o Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE TSC
o Associate Editor, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, IJCIS
o Editorial Review Board member, Services Transactions on Internet of Things, STIOT
· Journal Review:
o IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE TDSC
o International Journal of Very Large Databases, VLDBJ
o IEEE Transactions on Reliability
o IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE TPDS
o IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, IEEE TLT
o World Wide Web Journal
o Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, JPDC
o ACM Transactions on Database Systems, ACM TODS
o IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE TSC
o Wireless Networks Journal
o ACM Transactions on the Web, ACM TWEB
o IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE TVT
o Journal of Grid Computing
· Conference/Workshop
Chair:
o Program Committee Chair -- 18th
IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI 2017
o Demo/Poster chair - 37th
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2017
o Area Track Chair - Cloud as a
Service - 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, IEEE CLOUD 2016
o Area Track Chair - Security &
Privacy track - 4th International Congress on Big Data, IEEE BigData Congress 2016
o Short paper Track chair - 4th
International Conference on Mobile Services, IEEE MS 2016
o Workshop Chair - 1st and 2nd IEEE
International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Technologies, IEEE CIC
2015 and IEEE CIC 2016
o Best Paper Award Committee - 17th
IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI 2016
o
Publicity Chair – 16th and
17th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and
Integration, IRI 2015 and IRI 2016
o
Publications Chair - 10th
IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking,
Applications and Worksharing, (Collaboratecom
2014)
o Program Committee Chair - 3rd International Workshop on
Collaborative Cloud (CollabCloud 2014), held in
conjunction with Collaboratecom 2014
· Conference Program Committees:
o
35th,
36thand 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed
Computing Systems, ICDCS 2015, ICDCS 2016, ICDCS 2017
o
24th.
25th and 26th ACM International Conference on Information
and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2015, CIKM 2016, CIKM 2017
o
5th
and 6th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy,
CODASPY 2015, CODASPY 2016
o
7th, 8th,
9th and 10th International Conference on Cloud Computing,
IEEE CLOUD 2014, IEEE CLOUD 2015, IEEE CLOUD 2016, IEEE CLOUD 2017
o
16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, CCGrid 2016
o
15th
International Conference on High Performance Computing, HiPC
2015
o
7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud
Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2015
o
20th
International Conference for Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2015
o
21th
& 22nd International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2014
, ICWS 2015
o
15th
& 16th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and
Integration, IRI 2014, IRI 2015
·
IEEE Communications Society:
o
Chair, IEEE Communications
Society, Pittsburgh Chapter, April 2014 - present
Balaji
Palanisamy,
School
of Information Sciences
University
of Pittsburgh
135
N. Bellefield Avenue,
Pittsburgh,
PA 15260
Email:
bpalan@pitt(-dot--edu)
Phone: 412.624.0232