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Danfeng Zhang

Associate Professor of Computer Science
Computer Science
308 Research Drive Box 90129, Durham, NC 27704

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor of Computer Science · 2024 - Present Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent Publications


CtChecker: A Precise, Sound and Efficient Static Analysis for Constant-Time Programming

Conference Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs · September 1, 2024 Timing channel attacks are emerging as real-world threats to computer security. In cryptographic systems, an effective countermeasure against timing attacks is the constant-time programming discipline. However, strictly enforcing the discipline manually is ... Full text Cite

RECONSTRUCTION ATTACKS ON AGGRESSIVE RELAXATIONS OF DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY

Journal Article Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality · August 27, 2024 Differential privacy is a widely accepted formal privacy definition that allows aggregate information about a dataset to be released while controlling privacy leakage for individuals whose records appear in the data. Due to the unavoidable tension between ... Full text Cite

EXACT PRIVACY ANALYSIS OF THE GAUSSIAN SPARSE HISTOGRAM MECHANISM

Journal Article Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality · January 1, 2024 Sparse histogram methods can be useful for returning differentially private counts of items in large or infinite histograms or large group-by queries, and more generally, releasing a set of statistics with sufficient item counts. We consider the Gaussian v ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


CAREER: Building Secure Applications with Non-Static Information Flow Policies

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2026

Collaborative Proposal: SaTC: Frontiers: Center for Distributed Confidential Computing (CDCC)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2025

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Education, Training & Certifications


Cornell University · 2015 Ph.D.

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