About Me

I am a senior research assistant in the Computer Science Department at Hong Kong Baptist University. I work with the Database Group and the Blockchain & FinTech Lab. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from the same department, advised by Prof. Jianliang XU. Prior to that, I obtained my Bachelor degree from the School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Research Interests

I am interested in Databases, Cryptography, Information Security and Privacy-Aware Computing. My current focuses include:

• Authenticated query processing for outsourcing cloud computing.
• Searchable blockchain with integrity assurance.
• Privacy preserving query processing and access control.

Publications [Google Scholar] [DBLP]

• C. Xu, C. Zhang, and J. Xu, “vChain: Enabling Verifiable Boolean Range Queries over Blockchain Databases,” in Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD ’19), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2019. Full Paper. [eprint]
• Y. Ji, C. Xu, J. Xu, and H. Hu, “vABS: Towards Verifiable Attribute-Based Search over Shared Cloud Data,” in Proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE ’19), Macau SAR, China, 2019, pp. 2028–2031. Demo Paper. [eprint] [poster]
• S. Guo, J. Xu, C. Zhang, C. Xu, and T. Xiang, “ImageProof: Enabling Authentication for Large-Scale Image Retrieval,” in Proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE ’19), Macau SAR, China, 2019, pp. 1070–1081. Full Paper. [eprint] [slides] [poster]
• C. Zhang, C. Xu, J. Xu, Y. Tang, and B. Choi, “GEM²-Tree: A Gas-Efficient Structure for Authenticated Range Queries in Blockchain,” in Proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE ’19), Macau SAR, China, 2019, pp. 842–853. Full Paper.
• C. Xu, J. Xu, H. Hu, and M. H. Au, “When Query Authentication Meets Fine-Grained Access Control: A Zero-Knowledge Approach,” in Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD ’18), Houston, TX, USA, 2018, pp. 147–162. Full Paper. [pdf] [eprint] [slides] [poster]
• C. Zhang, C. Xu, J. Xu, and B. Choi, “Distributed kNN Query Authentication,” in Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM ’18), Aalborg, Denmark, 2018, pp. 167–176. Full Paper. [pdf] [eprint]
• C. Xu, Q. Chen, H. Hu, J. Xu, and X. Hei, “Authenticating Aggregate Queries over Set-Valued Data with Confidentiality,” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 630–644, Apr. 2018. Full Paper. [pdf] [eprint] [poster]
• C. Xu, Q. Chen, H. Hu, J. Xu, and X. Hei, “Authenticating Aggregate Queries over Set-Valued Data with Confidentiality (Extended Abstract),” in Proceedings of the 34th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE ’18), Paris, France, 2018, pp. 1797–1798. Poster Paper. [pdf] [eprint] [poster]
• Y. Tang, Z. Xing, C. Xu, J. Chen, and J. Xu, “Lightweight Logging over the Blockchain for Data-Intensive Applications,” in 2nd Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts at International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, Santa Barbara Beach Resort, Curaçao, 2018, pp. 308–324. Workshop Paper. [pdf]
• Q. Zhu, H. Hu, C. Xu, J. Xu, and W.-C. Lee, “Geo-social group queries with minimum acquaintance constraints,” The VLDB Journal (VLDBJ), vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 709–727, Jul. 2017. Full Paper. [pdf] [eprint] [poster]

Talks

• Towards Searchable and Verifiable Blockchain, 1st Workshop on Blockchain and Data Management at 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Macau, Apr. 8, 2019. [link] [slides]
• When Query Authentication Meets Fine-Grained Access Control: A Zero-Knowledge Approach, 2018 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Houston, TX, USA, Jun. 12, 2018. [link] [slides]