Yuncheng Wu
About Me
I am currently an associate professor at School of Information, Renmin University of China. Prior to that, I was a research assistant professor in School of Computing (SoC), National University of Singapore (NUS), and worked in the Singapore Blockchain Innovation Programme (SBIP). I was part of the Database Systems Research Group, working with Prof. Beng Chin Ooi and Prof. Xiaokui Xiao.
I obtained my PhD degree in Computer Science from Renmin University of China (RUC) in 2018, under the supervision of Prof. Hong Chen. I was a visiting PhD student in Simon Fraser University (SFU), supervised by Prof. Ke Wang. I received my Master’s degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST), advised by Prof. Yongli Wang, and Bachelor’s degree from Southwest University of Science and Technology (SWUST). I also worked in Ant Financial as a senior developer and 724 Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation as a software engineer.
I am looking for highly motivated students to work with me. Please drop me an email if you are interested.
Research Interests
- Data Collaboration: federated learning, data security and privacy, incentive mechanism
- Serverless Computing: performance evaluation, elasticity
News
- [Oct. 2024] Our paper about AI-powered Autonomous Database is accepted by CIDR 2025.
- [Aug. 2024] Our paper about passive inference attacks on split learning is accepted by NDSS 2025.
- [Aug. 2024] Our paper about in-database model slicing for structured data analytics is accepted by VLDB 2025.
- [Aug. 2024] Our paper about privacy and fairness risks in sharing diffusion models is accepted by TIFS 2024.
- [Jul. 2024] Our position paper about AI-powered autonomous data system is accepted by Science China Information Sciences 2024.
- [Apr. 2024] Our paper about cost-aware caching framework for cloud databases is awarded as Best Runner Up Paper by IEEE ICDE 2024.
- [Apr. 2024] Our paper about verifiable data collaboration with zero-knowledge proofs is accepted by VLDB 2024.
- [Feb. 2024] Our vision paper about large language models from data management perspective is accepted by IEEE ICDE 2024.
- [Jan. 2024] I join the School of Information at Renmin University of China as an associate professor.
Selected Publications
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The Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), 2025.Accepted
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The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS), 2025.Accepted
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Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 2025.Accepted
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IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2024.
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Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 2024.
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Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2024.
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Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2024.
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IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), 2024.
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IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2024.
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Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 2023.
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Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 2023.
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ACM Special Interest Group in Management Of Data (SIGMOD), 2023.
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ACM Special Interest Group in Management Of Data (SIGMOD), 2023.
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IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2023.
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ACM Special Interest Group in Management Of Data (SIGMOD), 2022.
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AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022.
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Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2021.
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Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2021.
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IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2021.
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Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 2020.
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Computers & Security, 2020.
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IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2019.
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International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2018.
Patents
Yuncheng Wu, Wenxiang Wang, Le Zhang, and Li Lin. Data processing method and devices. Chinese Patent. Authorized Announcement No.: CN 110162981 B. Hong Chen, Cuiping Li, Yuncheng Wu, Ruoyang Guo, Dan Zhao, Wenjuan Liang, and Yao Wu. Privacy-preserving group nearest neighbor query method and devices. Chinese Patent. Authorized Announcement No.: CN 109688545 B.
Teaching
Co-Lecturer of CS6203 (Advanced Topics in Database Management Systems) in Fall 2022, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
Professional Services
Conference Services
Demonstration Co-chair of VLDB 2024 Workshop Co-chair of BigComp 2023
Conference PC Members
2025: VLDB 2024: VLDB, ICDE, CIKM (SPC) 2023: VLDB, ICDE, EDBT 2022: VLDB, ICDE
Journal Reviewers
Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST) Transactions on Big Data (TBD) Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS) IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) ACM Transactions on Data Science (TDS) IEEE Network Big Data Research Chinese Journal of Computers (CJC)
Invited Talks
"Learning Over Heterogeneous Multi-Party Data: Vertical Federated Learning Concepts, Applications, and Data Privacy Protection", invited talk at Rakuten Institute of Technology, Japan (virtual), January 2022. "Secure and interpretable vertical federated learning", invited talk at the KDD'21 Trust Day, Singapore, Auguest 2021. "Privacy-preserving and incentive-aware vertical federated learning", invited talk at the SBIP seminar, Singapore, June 2021.
Awards
ACM SIGMOD Systems Award, 2024. Apache SINGA: A Distributed Deep Learning System. IEEE ICDE Best Runner Up Paper Award, 2024. LBSC: A Cost-aware Caching Framework for Cloud Databases. Wu Yuzhang Young Scholar, 2024. Renmin University of China.