Sheng Zhong

Publication List Details

Period

1994 - 2009

Number

79

Co-Authors

Incentive-Compatible Opportunistic Routing for Wireless Networks ABSTRACT (2009)

Fan Wu, Tingting Chen, Sheng Zhong, Li Erran, Li Yang, Richard Yang

User-contributed wireless mesh networks are a disruptive technology that may fundamentally change the economics of edge network access and bring the benefits of a computer network infrastructure to...

Body Sensor Network Security: An Identity-Based Cryptography Approach ABSTRACT (2009)

Chiu C. Tan, Sheng Zhong

A body sensor network (BSN), is a network of sensors deployed on a person’s body, usually for health care monitoring. Since the sensors collect personal medical data, security and privacy are...

Towards a Theory of Robust Localization Against Malicious Beacon Nodes (2009)

Sheng Zhong, Murtuza Jadliwala, Shambhu Upadhyaya, Chunming Qiao

Abstract—Localization in the presence of malicious beacon nodes is an important problem in wireless networks. Although significant progress has been made on this problem, some fundamental...

Notes (2009)

Jan-hermen Dannenberg, Gregory David, Sheng Zhong, Wing H. Wong, Ronald A, ...

mSin3A corepressor regulates diverse transcriptional networks

Cooperation-Optimal Protocols: A New Solution Framework for Designing Incentive-Compatible Routing and Forwarding Protocols in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks (2008)

Sheng Zhong, Li (erran Li, Yanbin Grace Liu, Yang Richard Yang

The functioning of many civilian ad-hoc networks depends on the assumption that nodes in the network forward each other’s traffic. However, because forwarding packets consumes scarce resources such...

ABSTRACT Body Sensor Network Security: An Identity-Based Cryptography Approach (2008)

Chiu C. Tan, Sheng Zhong

A body sensor network (BSN), is a network of sensors deployed on a person’s body, usually for health care monitoring. Since the sensors collect personal medical data, security and privacy are...

Inferring gene regulatory networks by thermodynamic modeling (2008)

Chen, Chieh-Chun, Zhong, Sheng

Abstract Background To date, the reconstruction of gene regulatory networks from gene expression data has primarily relied on the correlation between the expression of transcription regulators and...

Summary (2008)

Huck-hui Ng, Sheng Zhong, Bing Lim

Stem cells are specialized progenitor cells that have the ability to develop into different somatic cell types in the body. Among the different stem cells, embryonic stem (ES) cells are considered...

The balance of reproducibility, sensitivity, and specificity of lists of differentially expressed genes in microarray studies (2008)

Shi, Leming, Jones, Wendell D, Jensen, Roderick V, Harris, Stephen C, Perkins, Roger G, Goodsaid, Federico M, ...

Abstract Background Reproducibility is a fundamental requirement in scientific experiments. Some recent publications have claimed that microarrays are unreliable because lists of differentially...

IOS Press An Efficient and Secure Cryptosystem for Encrypting Long Messages (2008)

Sheng Zhong

Abstract. Traditionally, due to efficiency considerations, when encrypting long messages using an asymmtric cryptosystem, one needs to use a symmetric cryptosystem in addition. To eliminate this...

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Zhiqiang Yang, Sheng Zhong, Rebecca N. Wright

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Distributed Data Mining Protocols for Privacy: A Review of Some Recent Results ⋆ (2008)

Rebecca N. Wright, Zhiqiang Yang, Sheng Zhong

Abstract. With the rapid advance of the Internet, a large amount of sensitive data is collected, stored, and processed by different parties. Data mining is a powerful tool that can extract knowledge...

UBIC 2 – Towards Ubiquitous Bio-Information Computing: Data Protocols, Middleware, and Web Services for Heterogeneous Biological Information Integration and Retrieval (2008)

Pengyu Hong, Sheng Zhong, Wing H. Wong

The Ubiquitous Bio-Information Computing (UBIC 2) project aims to disseminate protocols and software packages to facilitate the development of heterogeneous bio-information computing units that are...

Privacy-Preserving Queries on Encrypted Data ⋆ (2008)

Zhiqiang Yang, Sheng Zhong, Rebecca N. Wright

Abstract. Data confidentiality is a major concern in database systems. Encryption is a useful tool for protecting the confidentiality of sensitive data. However, when data is encrypted, performing...

Towards Privacy-Preserving Model Selection ⋆ (2008)

Zhiqiang Yang, Sheng Zhong, Rebecca N. Wright

Abstract. Model selection is an important problem in statistics, machine learning, and data mining. In this paper, we investigate the problem of enabling multiple parties to perform model selection...

On Designing Collusion-resistant Routing Schemes for Non-cooperative Wireless Ad Hoc Networks ∗ (2008)

Sheng Zhong, Fan Wu

In wireless ad hoc networks, routing requires cooperation of nodes. Since nodes often belong to different users, it is highly important to provide incentives for them to cooperate. However, most...

COMPUTING: DATA PROTOCOLS, MIDDLEWARE, AND WEB SERVICES FOR HETEROGENEOUS BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION INTEGRATION AND RETRIEVAL (2008)

Pengyu Hong, Sheng Zhong, Wing H. Wong

The Ubiquitous Bio-Information Computing (UBIC 2) project aims to disseminate protocols and software packages to facilitate the development of heterogeneous bio-information computing units that are...

Selection of thermodynamic models for combinatorial control of multiple transcription factors in early differentiation of embryonic stem cells (2008)

Chen, Chieh-Chun, Zhu, Xin-Guang, Zhong, Sheng

Abstract Background Transcription factors (TFs) have multiple combinatorial forms to regulate the transcription of a target gene. For example, one TF can help another TF to stabilize onto regulatory...

Towards a Theory of Data Entanglement ⋆ (Extended Abstract) (2008)

James Aspnes, Joan Feigenbaum, R Yampolskiy, Sheng Zhong

Abstract. We give a formal model for systems that store data in entangled form. We propose a new notion of entanglement, called all-ornothing integrity (AONI) that binds the users ’ data in a way...

Towards a Theory of Data Entanglement ⋆,⋆⋆ Abstract (2008)

James Aspnes, Joan Feigenbaum, R Yampolskiy, Sheng Zhong

We give a formal model for systems that store data in entangled form. We propose a new notion of entanglement, called all-or-nothing integrity (AONI) that binds the users ’ data in a way that makes...

Towards a Theory of Robust Localization against Malicious Beacon Nodes (2008)

Zhong, Sheng, Jadliwala, Murtuza, Upadhyaya, Shambhu, Qiao, Chunming

Localization in the presence of malicious beacon nodes is an important problem in wireless networks. Although significant progress has been made on this problem, some fundamental theoretical...

Research Inferring gene regulatory networks by thermodynamic modeling (2008)

Bmc Genomics, Chieh-chun Chen, Sheng Zhong

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License

Cross-species de novo identification of cis-regulatory modules with GibbsModule: Application to gene regulation in embryonic stem cells (2008)

Xie, Dan, Cai, Jun, Chia, Na-Yu, Ng, Huck H., Zhong, Sheng

We introduce the GibbsModule algorithm for de novo detection of cis-regulatory motifs and modules in eukaryote genomes. GibbsModule models the coexpressed genes within one species as sharing a core...

Research Statement (2007)

Sheng Zhong

I have broad interest in cryptography, security, and networking, both theoretical and practical aspects thereof. I am also interested in incentive-compatible computing, i.e., computational problems...

Cross-species microarray analysis with the OSCAR system suggests an INSR->Pax6->NQO1 neuro-protective pathway in aging and Alzheimer's disease (2007)

Lu, Yue, He, Xin, Zhong, Sheng

OSCAR is a web platform for cluster and cross-species analysis of microarray data. It provides a comprehensive but friendly environment to both users and algorithm developers. For users, OSCAR...

The Reproducibility of Lists of Differentially Expressed Genes in Microarray Studies (2007)

Leming D. Shi, Wendell D. Jones, Roderick V. Jensen, Stephen C. Harris, Roger G. Perkins, Federico M. Goodsaid, ...

Reproducibility is a fundamental requirement in scientific experiments and clinical contexts. Recent publications raise concerns about the reliability of microarray technology because of the apparent...

The Reproducibility of Lists of Differentially Expressed Genes in Microarray Studies (2007)

Leming Shi, Wendell D. Jones, Roderick V. Jensen, Stephen C. Harris, Roger G. Perkins, Federico M. Goodsaid, ...

Reproducibility is a fundamental requirement in scientific experiments and clinical contexts. Recent publications raise concerns about the reliability of microarray technology because of the apparent...

TagSmart: analysis and visualization for yeast mutant fitness data measured by tag microarrays (2007)

Kim, Chulyun, Kim, Sangkyum, Dorer, Russell, Xie, Dan, Han, Jiawei, Zhong, Sheng

Abstract Background A nearly complete collection of gene-deletion mutants (96% of annotated open reading frames) of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been systematically constructed. Tag...

Privacy-preserving algorithms for distributed mining of frequent itemsets (2007)

Sheng Zhong

Standard algorithms for association rule mining are based on identification of frequent itemsets. In this paper, we study how to maintain privacy in distributed mining of frequent itemsets. That is,...

Privacy-preserving algorithms for distributed mining of frequent itemsets (2007)

Sheng Zhong

Standard algorithms for association rule mining are based on identification of frequent itemsets. In this paper, we study how to maintain privacy in distributed mining of fre-quent itemsets. That is,...

Inactivation of Wnt inhibitory factor-1 (WIF1) expression by epigenetic silencing is a common event in breast cancer (2006)

Ai, Lingbao, Tao, Qian, Zhong, Sheng, Fields, C.Robert, Kim, Wan-Ju, Lee, Michael W., ...

The Wnt signaling pathway is a powerful and prominent oncogenic mechanism dysregulated in numerous cancer types. While evidence from transgenic mouse models and studies of human tumors clearly...

Inactivation of Wnt inhibitory factor-1 (WIF1) expression by epigenetic silencing is a common event in breast cancer (2006)

Ai, Lingbao, Tao, Qian, Zhong, Sheng, Fields, C. Robert, Kim, Wan-Ju, Lee, Michael W., ...

The Wnt signaling pathway is a powerful and prominent oncogenic mechanism dysregulated in numerous cancer types. While evidence from transgenic mouse models and studies of human tumors clearly...

Inactivation of Wnt inhibitory factor-1 (WIF1) expression by epigenetic silencing is a common event in breast cancer (2006)

Ai, Lingbao, Tao, Qian, Zhong, Sheng, Fields, C. Robert, Kim, Wan-Ju, Lee, Michael W., ...

The Wnt signaling pathway is a powerful and prominent oncogenic mechanism dysregulated in numerous cancer types. While evidence from transgenic mouse models and studies of human tumors clearly...

Privacy-Preserving Classification of Customer Data without Loss of Accuracy (2005)

Zhiqiang Yang, Sheng Zhong, Rebecca N. Wright

Privacy has become an increasingly important issue in data mining. In this paper, we consider a scenario in which a data miner surveys a large number of customers to learn classification rules on...

Anonymity-preserving data collection (2005)

Zhiqiang Yang, Sheng Zhong, Rebecca N. Wright

Protection of privacy has become an important problem in data mining. In particular, individuals have become increasingly unwilling to share their data, frequently resulting in individuals either...

Privacy-enhancing k-anonymization of customer data (2005)

Sheng Zhong

In order to protect individuals ’ privacy, the technique of kanonymization has been proposed to de-associate sensitive attributes from the corresponding identifiers. In this paper, we provide...

Privacy-enhancing k-anonymization of customer data (2005)

Sheng Zhong

In order to protect individuals ’ privacy, the technique of kanonymization has been proposed to de-associate sensitive attributes from the corresponding identifiers. In this paper, we provide...

Anonymity-preserving data collection (2005)

Zhiqiang Yang, Sheng Zhong, Rebecca N. Wright

Protection of privacy has become an important problem in data mining. In particular, individuals have become increasingly unwilling to share their data, frequently resulting in individuals either...

mSin3A corepressor regulates diverse transcriptional networks governing normal and neoplastic growth and survival (2005)

Dannenberg, Jan-Hermen, David, Gregory, Zhong, Sheng, Van Der Torre, Jaco, Wong, Wing H., DePinho, Ronald A.

mSin3A is a core component of a large multiprotein corepressor complex with associated histone deacetylase (HDAC) enzymatic activity. Physical interactions of mSin3A with many sequence-specific...

EU ANTI-DUMPING POLICY-A Study in the CTV Case (2004)

ZHONG, SHENG

After integration for approximate half of century, EU, which compasses 25 Member State on 1st May, 2004, grows its influence on global economy day by day. There has been a significant increase of...

Privacy-preserving locationbased services for mobile users in wireless networks (2004)

Sheng Zhong, Li (erran Li, Yanbin Grace Liu, Yang Richard Yang

Abstract — Mobility is key to personal freedom. With the increasing availability of mobile devices, many providers begin to offer location-based services. Although these services greatly enrich our...

Abstract Privacy, Integrity, and Incentive-Compatibility in Computations with Untrusted Parties (2004)

Sheng Zhong

In this dissertation, I study privacy, integrity, and incentive compatibility in com-putations with untrusted parties. The study of privacy and integrity belongs to the research area of secure...

Towards a Theory of Data Entanglement (2004)

Joan Feigenbaum, Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Sheng Zhong, James Aspnes, James Aspnes, Joan Feigenbaum Aleks, ...

We propose a formal model for data entanglement as used in storage systems like Dagster [25] and Tangler [26]. These systems split data into blocks in such a way that a single block becomes a part of...

Towards a Theory of Data Entanglement (2004)

Exte Nd Ed, James Aspnes, Joan Feigenbaum, R Yampolskiy, Sheng Zhong

We give a formal model for systems that store data in entangled form. We propose a new notion of entanglement, called all-or-nothing integrity (AONI) that binds the users' data in a way that...

YALEU/DCS/TR-1277 (2004)

James Aspnes, Joan Feigenbaum, Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Sheng Zhong

aleksandr.yampolskiy@yale.edu. Supported by NSF.

Comparative analysis of gene sets in the gene ontology space under the multiple hypothesis testing framework (2004)

Sheng Zhong, Lu Tian, Cheng Li, Kai-florian Storch, Wing H. Wong

The Gene Ontology (GO) resource can be used as a powerful tool to uncover the properties shared among, and specific to, a list of genes produced by high-throughput functional genomics studies, such...

Towards a Theory of Data Entanglement (2004)

James Aspnes, Joan Feigenbaum, Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Sheng Zhong

We propose a formal model for data entanglement as used in storage systems like Dagster [25] and Tangler [26]. These systems split data into blocks in such a way that a single block becomes a part of...

ChipInfo: software for extracting gene annotation and gene ontology information for microarray analysis (2003)

Zhong, Sheng, Li, Cheng, Wong, Wing Hung

To date, assembling comprehensive annotation information for all probe sets of any Affymetrix microarrays remains a time-consuming, error-prone and challenging task. ChipInfo is designed for...

Verifiable distributed oblivious transfer and mobile agent security. DialM-POMC 2003 (2003)

Sheng Zhong

The mobile agent is a fundamental building block of the mobile computing paradigm. In mobile agent security, oblivious transfer (OT) from a trusted party can be used to protect the agent’s privacy...

Sprite: A Simple, Cheat-Proof, Credit-Based System for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (2003)

Sheng Zhong

Abstract — Mobile ad hoc networking has been an active research area for several years. How to stimulate cooperation among selfish mobile nodes, however, is not well addressed yet. In this paper,...

Sprite: A Simple, Cheat-Proof, Credit-Based System for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (2003)

Sheng Zhong

Abstract — Mobile ad hoc networking has been an active research area for several years. How to stimulate cooperation among selfish mobile nodes, however, is not well addressed yet. In this paper,...

Verifiable distributed oblivious transfer and mobile agent security. DialM-POMC 2003 (2003)

Sheng Zhong, Yang Richard Yang

The mobile agent is a fundamental building block of the mobile computing paradigm. In mobile agent security, oblivioustransfer(OT)fromatrustedpartycanbeusedtoprotect the agent’s privacy and the...

Verifiable distributed oblivious transfer and mobile agent security. DialM-POMC 2003 (2003)

Sheng Zhong, Yang Richard Yang

The mobile agent is a fundamental building block of the mobile computing paradigm. In mobile agent security, oblivious transfer (OT) from a trusted party can be used to protect the agent’s privacy...

ChipInfo: software for extracting gene annotation and gene ontology information for microarray analysis (2003)

Zhong, Sheng, Li, Cheng, Wong, Wing Hung

To date, assembling comprehensive annotation information for all probe sets of any Affymetrix microarrays remains a time-consuming, error-prone and challenging task. ChipInfo is designed for...

Optimistic mixing for exit-polls (2002)

Sheng Zhong, Dan Boneh, Markus Jakobsson, Ari Juels

Abstract. We propose a new mix network that is optimized to produce a correct output very fast when all mix servers execute the mixing protocol correctly (the usual case). Our mix network only...

Optimistic Mixing for Exit-Polls (2002)

Philippe Golle Sheng, Sheng Zhong, Dan Boneh, Markus Jakobsson, Ari Juels

We propose a new mix network that is optimized to produce a correct output very fast when all mix servers execute the mixing protocol correctly (the usual case). Our mix network only produces an...

Adaptive hierarchical vector quantization for image coding (1994)

Sheng Zhong, Francis Chin, Qing Yun Shi

Vector quantization (VQ) techniques have been widely used in the area of image coding because of their ability to achieve a low bit rate. ' VQ techniques achieve a low bit rate by exploiting the...

ChipInfo: software for extracting gene annotation and gene ontology information for microarray analysis

Zhong, Sheng, Li, Cheng, Wong, Wing Hung

To date, assembling comprehensive annotation information for all probe sets of any Affymetrix microarrays remains a time-consuming, error-prone and challenging task. ChipInfo is designed for...

mSin3A corepressor regulates diverse transcriptional networks governing normal and neoplastic growth and survival

Dannenberg, Jan-Hermen, David, Gregory, Zhong, Sheng, Van Der Torre, Jaco, Wong, Wing H., DePinho, Ronald A.

mSin3A is a core component of a large multiprotein corepressor complex with associated histone deacetylase (HDAC) enzymatic activity. Physical interactions of mSin3A with many sequence-specific...

Reliable prediction of transcription factor binding sites by phylogenetic verification

Li, Xiaoman, Zhong, Sheng, Wong, Wing H.

We present a statistical methodology that largely improves the accuracy in computational predictions of transcription factor (TF) binding sites in eukaryote genomes. This method models the...

ChipInfo: software for extracting gene annotation and gene ontology information for microarray analysis

Zhong, Sheng, Li, Cheng, Wong, Wing Hung

To date, assembling comprehensive annotation information for all probe sets of any Affymetrix microarrays remains a time-consuming, error-prone and challenging task. ChipInfo is designed for...

mSin3A corepressor regulates diverse transcriptional networks governing normal and neoplastic growth and survival

Dannenberg, Jan-Hermen, David, Gregory, Zhong, Sheng, Van Der Torre, Jaco, Wong, Wing H., DePinho, Ronald A.

mSin3A is a core component of a large multiprotein corepressor complex with associated histone deacetylase (HDAC) enzymatic activity. Physical interactions of mSin3A with many sequence-specific...

Reliable prediction of transcription factor binding sites by phylogenetic verification

Li, Xiaoman, Zhong, Sheng, Wong, Wing H.

We present a statistical methodology that largely improves the accuracy in computational predictions of transcription factor (TF) binding sites in eukaryote genomes. This method models the...

Cross-species microarray analysis with the OSCAR system suggests an INSR->Pax6->NQO1 neuro-protective pathway in aging and Alzheimer's disease

Lu, Yue, He, Xin, Zhong, Sheng

OSCAR is a web platform for cluster and cross-species analysis of microarray data. It provides a comprehensive but friendly environment to both users and algorithm developers. For users, OSCAR...

Cross-species de novo identification of cis-regulatory modules with GibbsModule: Application to gene regulation in embryonic stem cells

Xie, Dan, Cai, Jun, Chia, Na-Yu, Ng, Huck H., Zhong, Sheng

We introduce the GibbsModule algorithm for de novo detection of cis-regulatory motifs and modules in eukaryote genomes. GibbsModule models the coexpressed genes within one species as sharing a core...