About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Arizona from Fall 2018, working with Prof. Ming Li. In Summer 2019, I was a research intern at Baidu Security Lab. Before that, I received B.S. (in Mathematics and System Science) and M.S. (in Automation Science and Electrical Engineering) at Beihang University.

My research interest includes privacy-preserving techniques (e.g., Differential Privacy and Secure Multi-Party Computation) and robust machine learning/federated learning (against adversarial examples and poisoning attacks).

This is my up-to-date CV.

Publications

Preprints

1. PRECAD: Privacy-Preserving and Robust Federated Learning via Crypto-Aided Differential Privacy    [paper]
   Xiaolan Gu, Ming Li, and Li Xiong
   arXiv preprint, 2021

Conference Papers

1. PCKV: Locally Differentially Private Correlated Key-Value Data Collection with Optimized Utility    [paper] [slides] [code]
   Xiaolan Gu, Ming Li, Yueqiang Cheng, Li Xiong and Yang Cao
   USENIX Security, 2020. (acceptance rate: 158/972=16.3%)

2. Providing Input-Discriminative Protection for Local Differential Privacy    [paper] [slides] [code]
   Xiaolan Gu, Ming Li, Li Xiong and Yang Cao
   IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2020. (acceptance rate: 129/568=23%)

3. Supporting both Range Queries and Frequency Estimation with Local Differential Privacy [paper] [slides] [code]
   Xiaolan Gu, Ming Li, Yang Cao and Li Xiong
   IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2019. (acceptance rate: 32/115=28%)

Journal Papers

1. Sparse canonical correlation analysis algorithm with alternating direction method of multipliers    [paper]
   Xiaolan Gu and Qiusheng Wang
   Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, pp. 1-17, 2019.

2. Received signal strength indication-based localisation method with unknown path-loss exponent for HVDC electric field measurement    [paper]
   Xiaolan Gu, Yong Cui, Qiusheng Wang, Haiwen Yuan, Luxing Zhao and Guifang Wu
   IET - High Voltage, 2(4), pp. 261-266, 2017.

3. Adaptive notch filter design under multiple identical bandwidths    [paper]
   Qiusheng Wang, Xiaolan Gu and Jinyong Lin
   AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications, 2017(82), pp. 202-210, 2017.

4. Digital multiple notch filter design with Nelder-Mead simplex method    [paper]
   Qiusheng Wang, Xiaolan Gu, Yingyi Liu and Haiwen Yuan
   IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Science, 100(1), pp. 259-265, 2017.

[Last updated: Nov. 2021]