Bradley A. Malin

b {dot} malin [at] vanderbilt {dot} edu

Office
2525 West End Ave, Suite 600
Nashville, TN 37203
tel: +1 615 343 9096
fax: +1 615 322 0502

Mail
Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
Vanderbilt University
2209 Garland Ave, 4th Floor
Eskind Biomedical Library
Nashville, TN 37232

Academic Positions

Education

Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D. in Computation, Organizations & Society, School of Computer Science, 2006
     Dissertation: Trail Re-identification and Unlinkability in Distributed Databases (Chair: Latanya Sweeney)
M.Phil. in Public Policy and Management; Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, 2003
M.S. in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; School of Computer Science, 2002
B.S. in Biological Sciences; Mellon College of Science, 2000

Service

Honors and Awards

Publications

Book Chapters

  1. Privacy protection: regulations and technologies, opportunities and threats. In Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy, Berlin: Springer. 2008 (with D. Pedreschi, F. Bonchi, F. Turini, V. Verykios, M. Atzori, B. Moelans and Y. Saygin).

Peer Reviewed Journals

  1. Model-Based Design of Clinical Information Systems. Methods of Information in Medicine, Forthcoming (with J. Mathe, J. Werner, Y. Lee, and A. Ledeczi).
  2. A Cryptographic Approach to Securely Share and Query Genomic Sequences. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Forthcoming (with M. Kantarcioglu, W. Jiang, and Y. Liu).
  3. K-Unlinkability: A Privacy Protection Model for Distributed Data. Data and Knowledge Engineering, 2008; 64(1): 294-311.
  4. Towards the Security and Privacy Analysis of Patient Portals. ACM SIGBED Review, 2007; 4(2): 5-9. (with J. Mathe, S. Duncavage, J. Werner, A. Ledeczi, and J. Sztipanovits).
  5. A Computational Model to Protect Patient Data from Location-Based Re-identification. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2007; 40(3): 223-239.
  6. A Longitudinal Social Network Analysis of the Editorial Boards of Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics Journals. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2007; 14(3): 340 - 348 (with K. Carley).
  7. Protecting Genomic Sequence Anonymity with Generalization Lattices. Methods of Information in Medicine, 2005; 44(5): 687-692.
  8. A Network Analysis Model for Disambiguation of Names in Lists. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 2005; 11(2): 119-139 (with E. Airoldi and K. Carley).
  9. Betrayed By My Shadow: Learning Data Identity via Trail Matching. Journal of Privacy Technology, 2005; 20050609001.
  10. An Evaluation of the Current State of Genomic Data Privacy Protection Technology and a Roadmap for the Future. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2005; 12(1): 28-34.
  11. Preserving Privacy by De-identifying Facial Images. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2005; 17(2): 232-243 (with E. Newton and L. Sweeney).
  12. How (Not) to Protect Genomic Data Privacy in a Distributed Network: Using Trail Re-identification to Evaluate and Design Anonymity Protection Systems. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2004; 37(3): 179-192 (with L. Sweeney). Award: Republished in 2006 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics.

Peer Reviewed Conferences and Workshops

  1. A Privacy Preserving Framework for Integrating Person-Specific Databases. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Privacy in Statistical Databases, vol. TBD, Istanbul, Turkey. 2008. (with M. Kantarcioglu and W. Jiang).
  2. A Modeling Environment for Patient Portals. Proceedings of the 2007 American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Chicago, IL. 2007: 201-206. (with J. Werner, J. Mathe, S. Duncavage, A. Ledeczi, and J. Sztipanovits).
  3. Implementing a Model-Based Design Environment for Clinical Information Systems. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Model-Based Trustworthy Health Information Systems, in conjunction with the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, Nashville, TN. 2007. (with J. Mathe, S. Duncavage, J. Werner, A. Ledeczi, and J. Sztipanovits).
  4. Platform-based Design for Clinical Information Systems. Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Vienna, Austria. 2007; 2: 749-755. (with J. Werner, J. Mathe, S. Duncavage, A. Ledeczi, J. Jirjis, and J. Sztipanovits).
  5. Confidentiality Preserving Audits of Electronic Medical Record Access. Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics - Medinfo 2007, Brisbane, Australia. IOS Press. 2007; 127: 320-324. (with E. Airoldi).
  6. Re-identification of Familial Database Records. Proceedings of the 2006 American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Washington, DC. 2006: 524 - 528.
  7. The Effects of Location Access Behavior on Re-identification Risk in a Distributed Environment. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Proceedings of the 6th Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET), Revised Selected Papers, vol. 4258, 2006: 413-429 (with E. Airoldi).
  8. Composition and Disclosure of Unlinkable Distributed Databases. Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Atlanta, Georgia, 2006: 118 (with L. Sweeney).
  9. A Secure Protocol to Distribute Unlinkable Health Data. Proceedings of the 2005 American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, 2005: 485-489 (with L. Sweeney). Award: Student Paper Competition Finalist.
  10. Email Alias Detection Using Social Network Analysis. Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Link Discovery: Issues, Approaches, and Applications (Link-KDD), held in conjunction with the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Chicago, IL. 2005 (with R. Holzer and L. Sweeney).
  11. Integrating Utility into Face De-identification. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Proceedings of the 5th Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET), Revised Selected Papers, vol. 3856. 2005: 227-252 (with R. Gross, E. Airoldi, and L. Sweeney).
  12. Unsupervised Name Disambiguation via Social Network Similarity. Proceedings of the SIAM Workshop on Link Analysis, Counterterrorism, and Security, held in conjunction with the 2005 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. Newport Beach, CA. 2005: 93-102.
  13. Configurable Security Protocols for Multi-party Data Analysis with Malicious Participants. Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering. Tokyo, Japan. 2005: 533-544 (with E. Airoldi, S. Edoho-Eket, and Y. Li).
  14. Technologies to Defeat Fraudulent Schemes Related to Email Requests. Proceedings of the 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium on AI Technologies for Homeland Security. Palo Alto, CA. 2005 (with E. Airoldi and L. Sweeney).
  15. Data Mining Challenges for Electronic Safety: The Case of Fraudulent Intent Detection in E-mails. Proceedings of the Workshop on Privacy and Security Aspects of Data Mining, held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. Brighton, England, 2004: 57-66 (with E. Airoldi).
  16. Data and Collocation Surveillance Through Location Access Patterns. Proceedings of the 2004 North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. 2004.
  17. Correlating Web Usage of Health Information with Patient Medical Data. Proceedings of the 2002 American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium. San Antonio, TX. 2002: 484-488.
  18. Inferring Genotype from Clinical Phenotype Through a Knowledge-based Algorithm. Proceedings of the 2002 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Lihue, HI. 2002: 41 - 52 (with L. Sweeney).
  19. Re-identification of DNA Through an Automated Linkage Process. Proceedings of the 2001 American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium. Washington, DC. 2001: 423-427 (with L. Sweeney). Award: Student Paper Competition Finalist.
  20. Determining the Identifiability of DNA Database Entries. Proceedings of the 2000 American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium. Washington, DC. 2000: 547 - 551 (with L. Sweeney). Award: Student Paper Competition Finalist.

Other Publications

  1. Editorial: Recent advances in preserving privacy while mining data. Data and Knowledge Engineering, 2008: 65(1):1-4. (with F. Bonchi and Y. Saygin).
  2. First International Workshop on the Model-Based Design of Trustworthy Health Information Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Workshops and Symposia at MoDELS 2007, Nashville, TN, USA, September 30 - October 5, 2007, Reports and Revised Selected Papers, vol. 5002, 2008: 115-117. (with A. Ledeczi, R. Breu, and J. Sztipanovits).
  3. PinKDD'07: Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD Post-Workshop Report. ACM SIGKDD Explorations, 2007: 9(2): 93-95. (with F. Bonchi, E. Ferrari, and Y. Saygin).

Teaching Experience

Selected Invited Lectures, Talks, and Testimonies