Dr. Liyue Fan is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science in the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research is at the intersection of data privacy and databases. She was named one of the "Rising Stars in EECS" by MIT in 2015.

Prior to joining UNC Charlotte, Dr. Fan was an Assistant Professor in Information Technology Management at University at Albany. She spent two years as a postdoc research associate in the Integrated Media System Center at University of Southern California, under the supervision of Prof. Cyrus Shahabi. She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science & Informatics from Emory University (with Prof. Li Xiong) and a B.S.in Mathematics from Zhejiang University (a Chu Kochen ACEE alumna).

Dr. Fan serves the professional community as a PC member for SIGMOD, KDD, ICDM, AAAI, SIGSPATIAL, etc., and as a reviewer for many high impact journals, such as TKDE, TIST, TIFS, TMC, DAPD, and Computer & Security.

Research themes: Dr Fan's research has three pursuits: (1) quantifying the unintended information leakage in novel data sharing applications, (2) developing rigorous privacy-enhancing methods for data sharing and analysis, e.g., by building on the differential privacy model, (3) maximizing the utility of privacy-enhancing methods in practical settings, such as in healthcare and geospatial applications.

I am grateful for the support of:

National Science Foundation for a CAREER award in 2022

National Science Foundation for the DeepDetect project in 2021

CCI for the Innovation Award in 2020

UNC Charlotte for a Faculty Research Grant in 2020

National Science Foundation for an EAGER award in 2019

National Science Foundation for a CRII award in 2018

University at Albany for a FRAP-A Faculty Research Award in 2017

Prospective students: see information here.