Ninghui Li

Research Areas

• Information Security and Assurance
• Databases and Data Mining

Education

PhD, New York University, Computer Science (2000)

MS, New York University, Computer Science (1998)

BS, University of Science and Technology of China, Computer Science (1993)

Ninghui Li is a Samuel D. Conte Professor and Associate Department Head in the Computer Science Department at Purdue University. He received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)’s Special Class of Gift Young (SCGY)program in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University in 2000. Before joining the faculty of Purdue University in 2003, he was a Research Associate at Stanford University Computer Science Department from 2000 to 2003.

His research interests are in security and privacy. He has published over 200 referred papers in these areas, and have received multiple best paper wards and test of time awards in security and database conferences. His 2007 paper ``t-Closeness: Privacy Beyond k-Anonymity and l-Diversity'' received the ICDE 2017 Influential Paper award. He has over 27000 citations and an H-index of 77.

He recently served as Editor-in-Chief for ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS) from 2020 to 2024, and has served as Program Chair for several leading conferences in the field, including ACM CCS, ESORICS, ACM ASIACCS, ACM CODASPY, ACM SACMAT, and IFIP TM. He served as Chair of ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) from 2017 to 2021, and is an ACM fellow and an IEEE Fellow.

Selected Publications