Balaji Palanisamy
Assistant Professor
School of Computing and Information
Department of Informatics & Networked Systems
135 N. Bellefield Avenue, Room 704
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Email: bpalan@pitt(-dot--edu)
Phone: 412.624.0232
CV (September 2017)
I am an Assistant Professor in the School
of Computing and Information 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 the 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 joining our
research group, please apply to
our graduate program.
Publications Teaching Students 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, Fall 2017)
· Chao Li - Research focus:
Self-emerging Data, Multi-level Data Disclosure and Location Privacy
· Jinlai Xu - Research focus: Edge and Cloud Computing, Privacy-aware
Computing
·
Kuheli Sai - Research focus:
Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing
JOURNAL
PUBLICATIONS:
· Privacy-preserving Publishing
of Multi-level Utility Controlled Graph Datasets
Balaji Palanisamy,
Ling Liu, Yang Zhou and Qingyang Wang
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (ACM TOIT 2018)
· G-SIR: An
Insider Attack Resilient Geo-Social Access Control Framework
Nathalie Baracaldo,
Balaji Palanisamy, James Joshi
IEEE Transactions
on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC 2017)
· Distributed
Algorithms for Spatial Retrieval Queries in Geospatial Analysis
Qiulei Guo, Balaji Palanisamy, Hassan A. Karimi and Liming Zhang
Services Transactions on Cloud Computing (STCC 2016).
· Road Network-Aware Spatial Alarms
Kisung Lee, Ling Liu, Balaji Palanisamy and Emre Yigitoglu
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC 2016)
· Attack-resilient
Mix-zones over Road Networks: Architecture and Algorithms
Balaji Palanisamy and Ling Liu
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC 2015)
· Cost-effective
Resource Provisioning for MapReduce in
a Cloud
Balaji
Palanisamy, Aameek Singh and Ling Liu
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and
Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS 2015)
· Anonymizing
Continuous Queries with Delay-tolerant Mix-zones on Road Networks
Balaji Palanisamy, Ling Liu, Kisung Lee, Shicong Meng, Yuzhe Tang and Yang Zhou,
Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD 2014)
· Effective
Mix-zone Anonymization for Mobile Travelers
Balaji Palanisamy and Ling Liu
Geoinformatica 2014.
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS:
· PADS:
Privacy-preserving Auction Design for Allocating Dynamically Priced Cloud
Resources
Jinlai Xu, Balaji Palanisamy, Yuzhe
Tang, S.D. Madhu Kumar
Proc. of 3rd International Conference on Collaboration and
Internet Computing, San Jose, USA. (IEEE CIC 2017)
· Emerge:
Self-emerging Data Release using Cloud Data Storage
Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy
Proc. of 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing,
Honolulu, USA. (IEEE CLOUD 2017)
· Cost-aware
Resource Management for Federated Clouds using Resource Sharing Contracts
Jinlai Xu and Balaji Palanisamy
Proc. of 10th IEEE
International Conference on Cloud Computing, Honolulu, USA. (IEEE
CLOUD 2017)
· Zenith: Utility-aware
Resource Allocation for Edge Computing
Jinlai Xu and Balaji Palanisamy, Heiko
Ludwig, and Qingyang Wang
Proc. of 1st IEEE
International Conference on Edge Computing, Honolulu, USA. (IEEE
EDGE 2017)
· Differentially
Private Trajectory Analysis for Points-of-Interest Recommendation
Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy and James
Joshi
Proc. of 6th
IEEE International Congress on Big Data , Honolulu, USA.
(IEEE
BigData Congress 2017)
Received Best Paper Award
· Timed-release
of Self-emerging Data using Distributed Hash Tables
Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy
Proc. of 37th IEEE International Conference on
Distributed Computing Systems, Atlanta, USA. (ICDCS 2017)
· DCM: Dynamic
Concurrency Management for Scaling n-Tier Applications in Cloud
Hui
Chen, Qingyang Wang, Balaji
Palanisamy, and Pengcheng Xiong
Proc.
of the 37th International Conference on
Distributed Computing Systems, Atlanta, GA, USA. (ICDCS 2017)
· ReverseCloak:
A Reversible Multi-level Location Privacy Protection System (System Demonstration)
Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy, Aravind Kalaivanan and Sriram Raghunathan
Proc. of 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Atlanta, USA. (ICDCS 2017)
· Group
Differential Privacy-preserving Disclosure of Multi-level Association Graphs (poster)
Balaji Palanisamy, Chao Li and Prashant
Krishnamurthy
Proc. of 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing
Systems, Atlanta, USA. (ICDCS 2017)
· SocialMix: Privacy-aware Communication in Online Social Networks
Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy and James Joshi
Proc. of 23rd IEEE International Conference on Web Services, San Francisco, USA. (ICWS ’16)
· ReverseCloak:
Protecting Multi-level Location Privacy over Road Networks
Chao Li
and Balaji Palanisamy
Proc. of 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Melbourne, Australia. (CIKM ’15)
· De-anonymizable
Location Cloaking for Privacy-controlled Mobile Systems
Chao Li
and Balaji Palanisamy
Proc. of 9th International Conference on Network and System Security, New York, USA (NSS 2015)
· A Distributed Polygon Retrieval Algorithm using MapReduce
Qiulei Quo, Balaji Palanisamy and Hassan Karimi
Proc. of International Symposium on Spatio-temporal Computing, Fairfax, Virginia, USA (ISSC 2015)
· Privacy-preserving
Data Publishing in the Cloud: A Multi-level Utility Controlled Approach
Balaji
Palanisamy and Ling Liu
Proc. of 8th IEEE
International Conference on Cloud Computing, New York, USA. (IEEE CLOUD 2015)
· A MapReduce Algorithm for Polygon Retrieval in Geospatial
Analysis
Qiulei Quo, Balaji Palanisamy and Hassan Karimi
Proc. of 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, New York, USA. (IEEE CLOUD 2015)
· Clustering
Service Networks with
Entity, Attribute and Link Heterogeneity
Yang
Zhou, Ling Liu, Xianqiang Bao,
Kisung Lee, Calton Pu, Balaji Palanisamy, Emre Yigitoglu, Qi Zhang
Proc. of 22nd IEEE International Conference on Web Services, New York, USA. (IEEE ICWS 2015)
· Lightweight
Indexing for Log-Structured Key-Value Stores
Yuzhe Tang, Arun Iyengar, Wei Tan, Liana Fong, Ling Liu and Balaji
Palanisamy
Proc. of 15th IEEE/ACM
International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (IEEE/ACM
CCGrid 2015)
Received
Best Paper Award
Part
of this work has been included in IBM InfoSphere BigInsights
· A
Distributed Polygon Retrieval Algorithm using MapReduce (Poster)
Qiulei Quo, Balaji Palanisamy and Hassan Karimi
Proc. of 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, Miami, Florida, USA (Collaboratecom 2014)
· LEAF: A
Privacy-conscious Social Network-based Intervention Tool for IPV Survivors
Balaji
Palanisamy, Sheldon Sensenig, James Joshi and Rose Constantino
Proc. of 15th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, San Franscisco, USA (IRI 2014)
· Compromising
Cloaking-based Location Privacy Preserving Mechanisms with Location Injection
Attacks (Poster)
Lei Jin, Balaji Palanisamy and
James Joshi
Proc. of 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA (CCS 2014)
· Geo-Social-RBAC:
A Location-based Socially Aware Access Control Framework
Nathalie Baracaldo, Balaji Palanisamy and
James Joshi
Proc. of 8th International Conference on Network and System Security, Xi’an, China (NSS
2014)
· VNCache: Map Reduce Analysis for Cloud-archived Data
Balaji
Palanisamy, Aameek Singh, Nagapramod
Mandagere, Gabriel Alatore
and Ling Liu
Proc. of 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, Chicago, USA (IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2014)
· Cura: A Cost-Optimized Model for MapReduce
in a Cloud
Balaji
Palanisamy, Aameek Singh, Ling Liu and Bryan Langston
Proc. of 27th IEEE International Parallel and
Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS
2013)
· Road Network Mix-zones for Anonymous Location Based Services (System Demonstration)
Balaji Palanisamy, Sindhuja Ravichandran, Ling Liu, Binh Han and Kisung Lee
Proc. of 28th
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2013)
· ROADALARM: a Spatial Alarm System on Road Networks (System Demonstration)
Kisung Lee, Ling Liu, Binh Han, Balaji Palanisamy
Proc. of 28th
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2013)
· Location Privacy with Road Network Mix-zones
Balaji Palanisamy, Ling Liu, Kisung Lee, Aameek Singh and Yuzhe Tang
Proc. of 8th IEEE International Conference on
Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (IEEE MSN 2012)
· Reliable State Monitoring with Messaging Quality Awareness
Shicong Meng, Arun Iyengar,
Isabelle Rouvellou, Ling Liu, Kisung
Lee, Balaji Palanisamy and Yuzhe Tang
Proc. of 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2012)
Received Best Paper Award
· Road Network Aware Spatial Alarm Processing
Kisung Lee, Ling
Liu, Shicong Meng, Balaji
Palanisamy
Proc. of 19th
IEEE International Conference on Web
Services (ICWS 2012)
· MobiMix: Protecting Location Privacy with Mix-zones over Road Networks
Balaji Palanisamy and Ling Liu
Proc. of 27th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2011)
· Purlieus: Locality-aware Resource Allocation for MapReduce in a Cloud
Balaji Palanisamy, Aameek Singh, Ling Liu and Bhushan Jain
Proc. of IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC 2011)
· Privacy
Preserving Indexing for eHealth Information Networks
Yuzhe Tang, Ting Wang, Ling Liu, Shicong
Meng, Balaji
Palanisamy
Proc. of 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011)
· MedVault: Health
Professional Access to Source-Verifiable Patient-Centric PHR Repository (Poster)
Mustaque Ahamad, Douglas Blough, Ling Liu, David Bauer, Apurva Mohan, Daisuke Mashima, Bhuvan Bamba, Balaji Palanisamy, Ramkumar Krishnan, Italo Dacosta, and Ketan Kalgaonkar
Poster presentation at the 19th Usenix Security Symposium, (USENIX Security 2010)
· Dynamic Routing of Reliability-Differentiated Connections in Optical Burst Switched Networks
N.Sreenath, N. Devendra and Balaji Palanisamy
Proc. Managing
Complexity in a Distributed World, IISc Centenary
Conference, (MCDES 2008)
· Traffic Adaptive Wavelength Routing in IP-Over-WDM Networks
Balaji Palanisamy, T.Siva Prasad, and N.Sreenath
Proc. 14th
International conference on Advanced Computing and Communications, (ADCOM
2006)
Received Best Paper Award
N.Sreenath and Balaji
Palanisamy
Proc. International
conference on Networking and Services, Santa
Clara, USA (ICNS 2006)
N.Sreenath, Balaji Palanisamy, and S.R.Nadarajan
Proc. International
Conference on Systems and Networks Communication, (ICSNC 2006)
· A Two-Phase
Distributed Reconfiguration Algorithm for Node Failures in IP-Over-WDM Networks
N.Sreenath and Balaji
Palanisamy
Proc. International
Conference on Systems and Networks Communication, (ICSNC 2006)
WORKSHOP
PUBLICATIONS:
· A Dynamic Privacy
Aware Access Control Model for Location Based Services
Leila Karimi,
Balaji Palanisamy, James Joshi
Proc. of 1st International Workshop on
Privacy in Collaborative & Social Computing, Pittsburgh, USA. (PiCSoC 2016)
· Link
Analysis of Wikipedia Documents using MapReduce
Hardik Vasa, Anirudh Vasudevan and Balaji Palanisamy
Proc. of 4th IEEE International Workshop on
Data Integration and Mining, San Franscisco, USA (DIM
2015)
· LITSEEK: Public health literature search by metadata enhancement with External knowledge bases
Priyanka Prabhu, Shamkant B. Navathe, Stephen Tyler,
Venu Dasigi, Neha Narkhede, Balaji Palanisamy
Proc. of the
3rd International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics (DTMBIO
2009)
BOOK CHAPTERS:
· Protecting Privacy in Indoor Positioning Systems
Balaji Palanisamy, James Joshi
Indoor Wayfinding and Navigation, 2015.
TECHNICAL REPORTS:
· A
Patient-centric, Attribute-based, Source-verifiable Framework for Health Record
Sharing
Apurva Mohan , David
Bauer, Douglas M. Blough, Mustaque
Ahamad, Bhuvan Bamba, Ramkumar Krishnan, Ling
Liu, Daisuke Mashima, Balaji Palanisamy
GIT CERCS Technical Report No. GIT-CERCS-09-11, 2009, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
PATENTS:
Locality-aware Resource
Allocation for Cloud Computing
Balaji Palanisamy and Aameek
Singh
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