• School of Humanities & Social Science

    • Dr ZHANG Chen （張晨博士）
    BEng (Harbin University of Science and Technology)
    MEng (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen)
    PhD (CityU)

    Assistant Professor
    Department of Computer Science

    Tel : (852) 3963 5706
    Email :
    czhang@hsu.edu.hk


    Dr. Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK). She received her PhD degree in Computer Science from City University of Hong Kong in 2022; MEng degree in Computer Technology from Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HITSZ) in 2019; and BEng degree in Network Engineering from Harbin University of Science and Technology (HrbUST) in 2017.

    Research InterestsPublicationsAwards
    TopResearch Interests
    Her research interests include federated learning, network security, mobile edge computing, and AI security.
    TopPublications
    Selected journal publications:
    • Chen Zhang, Qingyuan Xie, Mingyue Wang, Yu Guo, and Xiaohua Jia, “Optimal Compression for Encrypted Key-Value Store in Cloud Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Computers (IEEE TC), vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 928-941, 2024.
    • Chen Zhang, Yulong Ming, Mingyue Wang, Yu Guo, and Xiaohua Jia, “Encrypted and Compressed Key-Value Store with Pattern-Analysis Security in Cloud Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE TIFS), vol. 19, pp. 221-234, 2024.
    • Chen Zhang, Yinbin Miao, Qingyuan Xie, Yu Guo, Hongwei Du, and Xiaohua Jia, “Privacy- Preserving Deduplication of Sensor Compressed Data in Fog-Cloud Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2022.
    • Chen Zhang, Yu Guo, Xiaohua Jia, Cong Wang, and Hongwei Du, “Enabling Proxy-Free Privacy-Preserving and Federated Crowdsourcing by Using Blockchain”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ), vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 6624-6636, 2021.
    • Chen Zhang and Hongwei Du, “DMORA: Decentralized Multi-SP Online Resource Allocation Scheme for Mobile Edge Computing”, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 2497-2507, 2021.
    Selected conference publications:
    • Chen Zhang, Boyang Zhou, Zhiqiang He, Zeyuan Liu, Yanjiao Chen, Wenyuan Xu, Baochun Li. “OBLIVION: Poisoning Federated Learning by Inducing Catastrophic Forgetting”, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2023.
    • Chen Zhang, Qingyuan Xie, Yinbin Miao, and Xiaohua Jia, “K-Indistinguishable Data Access for Encrypted Key-Value Stores”, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2022.
    • Chen Zhang, Yu Guo, Hongwei Du, and Xiaohua Jia, “PFcrowd: Privacy-Preserving and Federated Crowdsourcing Framework by Using Blockchain”, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2020.
    • Chen Zhang, Hongwei Du, Qiang Ye, Chuang Liu, and He Yuan, “DMRA: A Decentralized Re- source Allocation Scheme for Multi-SP Mobile Edge Computing”, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2019.
    TopAwards
    • Outstanding Academic Performance Award (CityU)
    • Excellent Graduate Student (HITSZ)
    • National Scholarship for Graduate Students, Ministry of Education, PRC