Dongfang Zhao, Ph.D.
Dr. Dongfang Zhao joined the faculty of University of Washington (UW)
Tacoma School of Engineering and Technology in 2023.
He is also an adjunct professor of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.
Technical Services
- Associate Editor: Journal of Big Data (Springer)
- Editorial Board: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
- Senior Program Committee: AAAI Conferenceon Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- Book Reviewer: Introduction to Algebraic Geometry, by Brendan Hassett (Brown University)
- Open-source Contributor (HPDIC):
- Meta/Facebook Faiss (C/C++ and CUDA)
- Microsoft DiskANN (C++ main branch)
Recent papers (selected since 2023; some older papers can be found here)
- [ICDE'26] QPAD: Quantile-Preserving Approximate Dimension Reduction for Nearest Neighbors Preservation in High-Dimensional Vector Search
- [CVPR'26] BadRSSD: Backdoor Attacks on Regularized Self-Supervised Diffusion Models
- [WWW'26] Reliable Non-Leveled Homomorphic Encryption for Web Services (acceptance rate 20%)
- [AAAI'26] Order-Preserving Dimension Reduction for Multimodal Semantic Embedding (acceptance rate 17%)
- [ICDM'25] ProHD: Projection-Based Hausdorff Distance Approximation (acceptance rate 13%)
- [ECAI'25] IPBA: Imperceptible Perturbation Backdoor Attack in Federated Self-Supervised Learning (acceptance rate 23%)
- [ICWS'24] Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence on Edge Devices: A Homomorphic Encryption Approach (acceptance rate 19%)
- [PAKDD'24] Towards Nonparametric Topological Layers in Neural Networks
- [SIGMOD'23] Toward Efficient Homomorphic Encryption for Outsourced Databases through Parallel Caching
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