Faculty Profiles - ZHOU Mingxun | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Mingxun ZHOU
周銘洵

PhD in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University, 2025

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Google Scholar

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ORCID

0000-0001-6034-9245

ResearcherID

LUA-0691-2024

Scopus ID

57376815800

Research Interest

Applied cryptography
Algorithms
Machine learning

Publications

2026 3

Bifrost: A Much Simpler Secure Two-Party Data Join Protocol for Secure Data Analytics

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, v. 19, (6), p. 1156-1169
CHEN, Shuyu; ZHOU, Mingxun; Niu, Haoyu; Lin, Guopeng; Han, Weili
Conference paper

Continual Learning With Participation Privacy: An Auditable Buffering-Aggregation Recipe

Proceedings of the 43 rd International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2026,
Hubert Chan, T. H.; Shi, Elaine; Zhao, Mengshi; ZHOU, Mingxun
Conference paper

ZELDA: Efficient Multi-Server Preprocessing PIR with Unconditional Security

Proceedings - 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2026 / edited by Oprea Alina; Nita-Rotaru Cristina; Papernot Nicolas. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2026, p. 1403-1422article number 11573400
Ghoshal, Ashrujit; Zhou, Mingxun; Peng, Bo; Shi, Elaine
Conference paper

2025 2

Pacmann: Efficient Private Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search

13th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2025, International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR, 2025, p. 99396-99416
Zhou, Mingxun; Shi, Elaine; Fanti, Giulia
Conference paper

Pseudorandom Functions with Weak Programming Privacy and Applications to Private Information Retrieval

Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2025 - 44th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Proceedings / edited by Fehr Serge; Fouque Pierre-Alain. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2025, p. 284-313
Ghoshal, Ashrujit; Zhou, Mingxun; Shi, Elaine; Peng, Bo
Conference paper

2024 4

Advanced Composition Theorems for Differential Obliviousness

15th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference, ITCS 2024 / edited by Guruswami Venkatesan. Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing, 2024, article number 103
Zhou, Mingxun; Zhao, Mengshi; Hubert Chan, T. H.; Shi, Elaine
Conference paper

Conan: Distributed Proofs of Compliance for Anonymous Data Collection

CCS 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2024, p. 914-928
Zhou, Mingxun; Fanti, Giulia; Shi, Elaine
Conference paper

Efficient Pre-processing PIR Without Public-Key Cryptography

Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2024 - 43rd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, 2024, Proceedings / edited by Joye Marc; Leander Gregor. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2024, p. 210-240
Ghoshal, Ashrujit; Zhou, Mingxun; Shi, Elaine
Conference paper

Piano: Extremely Simple, Single-Server PIR with Sublinear Server Computation

Proceedings - 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2024, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024, p. 4296-4314
Zhou, Mingxun; Park, Andrew; Zheng, Wenting; Shi, Elaine
Conference paper

2023 3

A Theory of Composition for Differential Obliviousness

Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2023 - 42nd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, 2023, Proceedings / edited by Hazay Carmit; Stam Martijn. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023, p. 3-34
Zhou, Mingxun; Shi, Elaine; Chan, T. H.Hubert; Maimon, Shir
Conference paper

Mercury: Fast Transaction Broadcast in High Performance Blockchain Systems

INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023, article number 10228972
Zhou, Mingxun; Zeng, Liyi; Han, Yilin; Li, Peilun; Long, Fan; Zhou, Dong; Beschastnikh, Ivan; Wu, Ming
Conference paper

Optimal Single-Server Private Information Retrieval

Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2023 - 42nd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Proceedings / edited by Hazay Carmit; Stam Martijn. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023, p. 395-425
Zhou, Mingxun; Lin, Wei Kai; Tselekounis, Yiannis; Shi, Elaine
Conference paper

2022 1

Locally Differentially Private Sparse Vector Aggregation

Proceedings - 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2022, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022, p. 422-439article number 9833635
Zhou, Mingxun; Wang, Tianhao; Chan, T. H.Hubert; Fanti, Giulia; Shi, Elaine
Conference paper

2021 1

SquirRL: Automating Attack Analysis on Blockchain Incentive Mechanisms with Deep Reinforcement Learning

28th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2021, The Internet Society, 2021,
Hou, Charlie; Zhou, Mingxun; Ji, Yan; Daian, Phil; Tramèr, Florian; Fanti, Giulia; Juels, Ari
Conference paper

2019 1

Vacuum filters: More space-efficient and faster replacement for bloom and cuckoo filters

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, v. 13, (2), p. 197-210
Wang, Minmei; Zhou, Mingxun; Shi, Shouqian; Qian, Chen
Conference paper

Conference paper 3

Bifrost: A Much Simpler Secure Two-Party Data Join Protocol for Secure Data Analytics

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, v. 19, (6), p. 1156-1169
CHEN, Shuyu; ZHOU, Mingxun; Niu, Haoyu; Lin, Guopeng; Han, Weili

Continual Learning With Participation Privacy: An Auditable Buffering-Aggregation Recipe

Proceedings of the 43 rd International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2026,
Hubert Chan, T. H.; Shi, Elaine; Zhao, Mengshi; ZHOU, Mingxun

ZELDA: Efficient Multi-Server Preprocessing PIR with Unconditional Security

Proceedings - 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2026 / edited by Oprea Alina; Nita-Rotaru Cristina; Papernot Nicolas. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2026, p. 1403-1422article number 11573400
Ghoshal, Ashrujit; Zhou, Mingxun; Peng, Bo; Shi, Elaine

Conference paper 2

Pacmann: Efficient Private Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search

13th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2025, International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR, 2025, p. 99396-99416
Zhou, Mingxun; Shi, Elaine; Fanti, Giulia

Pseudorandom Functions with Weak Programming Privacy and Applications to Private Information Retrieval

Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2025 - 44th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Proceedings / edited by Fehr Serge; Fouque Pierre-Alain. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2025, p. 284-313
Ghoshal, Ashrujit; Zhou, Mingxun; Shi, Elaine; Peng, Bo

Conference paper 4

Advanced Composition Theorems for Differential Obliviousness

15th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference, ITCS 2024 / edited by Guruswami Venkatesan. Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing, 2024, article number 103
Zhou, Mingxun; Zhao, Mengshi; Hubert Chan, T. H.; Shi, Elaine

Conan: Distributed Proofs of Compliance for Anonymous Data Collection

CCS 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2024, p. 914-928
Zhou, Mingxun; Fanti, Giulia; Shi, Elaine

Efficient Pre-processing PIR Without Public-Key Cryptography

Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2024 - 43rd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, 2024, Proceedings / edited by Joye Marc; Leander Gregor. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2024, p. 210-240
Ghoshal, Ashrujit; Zhou, Mingxun; Shi, Elaine

Piano: Extremely Simple, Single-Server PIR with Sublinear Server Computation

Proceedings - 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2024, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024, p. 4296-4314
Zhou, Mingxun; Park, Andrew; Zheng, Wenting; Shi, Elaine

Conference paper 3

A Theory of Composition for Differential Obliviousness

Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2023 - 42nd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, 2023, Proceedings / edited by Hazay Carmit; Stam Martijn. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023, p. 3-34
Zhou, Mingxun; Shi, Elaine; Chan, T. H.Hubert; Maimon, Shir

Mercury: Fast Transaction Broadcast in High Performance Blockchain Systems

INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023, article number 10228972
Zhou, Mingxun; Zeng, Liyi; Han, Yilin; Li, Peilun; Long, Fan; Zhou, Dong; Beschastnikh, Ivan; Wu, Ming

Optimal Single-Server Private Information Retrieval

Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2023 - 42nd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Proceedings / edited by Hazay Carmit; Stam Martijn. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023, p. 395-425
Zhou, Mingxun; Lin, Wei Kai; Tselekounis, Yiannis; Shi, Elaine

Conference paper 1

Locally Differentially Private Sparse Vector Aggregation

Proceedings - 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2022, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022, p. 422-439article number 9833635
Zhou, Mingxun; Wang, Tianhao; Chan, T. H.Hubert; Fanti, Giulia; Shi, Elaine

Conference paper 1

SquirRL: Automating Attack Analysis on Blockchain Incentive Mechanisms with Deep Reinforcement Learning

28th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2021, The Internet Society, 2021,
Hou, Charlie; Zhou, Mingxun; Ji, Yan; Daian, Phil; Tramèr, Florian; Fanti, Giulia; Juels, Ari

Conference paper 1

Vacuum filters: More space-efficient and faster replacement for bloom and cuckoo filters

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, v. 13, (2), p. 197-210
Wang, Minmei; Zhou, Mingxun; Shi, Shouqian; Qian, Chen

2019 1

Vacuum filters: More space-efficient and faster replacement for bloom and cuckoo filters

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, v. 13, (2), p. 197-210
Wang, Minmei; Zhou, Mingxun; Shi, Shouqian; Qian, Chen
Conference paper

Teaching Assignment

COMP2711	Discrete Mathematical Tools for Computer Science
COMP6922T	Research Project

COMP4971A

Independent Work

No Teaching Assignments

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2023 to December 2026 (As of 10 September 2026)

Current RPGs

Doctor of Philosophy

FANG, Yijia
Computer Science and Engineering
ZHANG, Yue
Computer Science and Engineering

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

Towards Practical Secure Server-Client Computation: A Private Retrieval-Centered Perspective

實用的伺服器客戶端安全計算：以私隱資訊查詢為核心的方法 Leading

RGC - Early Career Scheme
Project Team (HKUST)
ZHOU Mingxun (Lead)
2026 -
Continual Learning Methods and Application Technologies for Multilingual Large Language Models in Cross-Domain Scenarios

面向跨域場景的多語言大模型持續學習方法和應用技術 Participating

Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
Project Team (HKUST)
FUNG May Yi Ren

SONG Yangqiu

ZHOU Mingxun
2025 -

Research Interest

Publications

2026 3

2025 2

2024 4

2023 3

2022 1

2021 1

2019 1

Conference paper 3

Conference paper 2

Conference paper 4

Conference paper 3

Conference paper 1

Conference paper 1

Conference paper 1

2019 1

Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2023 to December 2026 (As of 10 September 2026)

Current RPGs

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

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