2026 Gabriel Ghinita: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	32	12926	12545	23	23	138	7050

Overview

Gabriel Ghinita is affiliated with Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar and has contributed extensively to the fields of computer science, engineering, and social sciences. Their research primarily concentrates on privacy-preserving technologies, human mobility, cryptography, and secure data management within spatial and temporal contexts.

Their work covers several main fields of study including:

Computer Science
Engineering
Social Sciences

Within these fields, Ghinita's subfields of research encompass:

Artificial Intelligence
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Transportation
Building and Construction
Safety Research

The scientist's primary research topics include:

Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
Cryptography and Data Security
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques

Ghinita has published numerous papers spanning multiple venues, with frequent contributions to:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems
Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence

Recent publications by Gabriel Ghinita include:

A neural database for differentially private spatial range queries (2022), Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Mobility Data Science: Perspectives and Challenges (2024), ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems
A Neural Approach to Spatio-Temporal Data Release with User-Level Differential Privacy (2023), Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data
HTF: Homogeneous Tree Framework for Differentially Private Release of Large Geospatial Datasets with Self-tuning Structure Height (2022), ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems
Models and mechanisms for spatial data fairness (2022), Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Collaborative work is an essential component of Ghinita's research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

Cyrus Shahabi
Sina Shaham
Ritesh Ahuja
Sepanta Zeighami
John Krumm

Best Publications

Private queries in location based services: anonymizers are not necessary

Gabriel Ghinita;Panos Kalnis;Ali Khoshgozaran;Cyrus Shahabi

1070
Citations
Preventing Location-Based Identity Inference in Anonymous Spatial Queries

P. Kalnis;G. Ghinita;K. Mouratidis;D. Papadias

983
Citations
PRIVE: anonymous location-based queries in distributed mobile systems

Gabriel Ghinita;Panos Kalnis;Spiros Skiadopoulos

587
Citations
A framework for protecting worker location privacy in spatial crowdsourcing

Hien To;Gabriel Ghinita;Cyrus Shahabi

424
Citations
Fast data anonymization with low information loss

Gabriel Ghinita;Panagiotis Karras;Panos Kalnis;Nikos Mamoulis

382
Citations
On the Anonymization of Sparse High-Dimensional Data

G. Ghinita;Yufei Tao;P. Kalnis

277
Citations
MobiHide: A Mobilea Peer-to-Peer System for Anonymous Location-Based Queries

Gabriel Ghinita;Panos Kalnis;Spiros Skiadopoulos

260
Citations
MOBIHIDE: a mobilea peer-to-peer system for anonymous location-based queries

Gabriel Ghinita;Panos Kalnis;Spiros Skiadopoulos

260
Citations
Private record matching using differential privacy

Ali Inan;Murat Kantarcioglu;Gabriel Ghinita;Elisa Bertino

210
Citations
Preventing velocity-based linkage attacks in location-aware applications

Gabriel Ghinita;Maria Luisa Damiani;Claudio Silvestri;Elisa Bertino

158
Citations
Differentially Private Location Protection for Worker Datasets in Spatial Crowdsourcing

Hien To;Gabriel Ghinita;Liyue Fan;Cyrus Shahabi

152
Citations
Enabling search services on outsourced private spatial data

Man Lung Yiu;Gabriel Ghinita;Christian S. Jensen;Panos Kalnis

151
Citations
Access Control for Databases: Concepts and Systems

Elisa Bertino;Gabriel Ghinita;Ashish Kamra

137
Citations
Anonymous Publication of Sensitive Transactional Data

Gabriel Ghinita;Panos Kalnis;Yufei Tao

136
Citations
A framework for efficient data anonymization under privacy and accuracy constraints

Gabriel Ghinita;Panagiotis Karras;Panos Kalnis;Nikos Mamoulis

118
Citations
Large-scale frequent subgraph mining in MapReduce

Wenqing Lin;Xiaokui Xiao;Gabriel Ghinita

113
Citations
Secure kNN Query Processing in Untrusted Cloud Environments

Sunoh Choi;Gabriel Ghinita;Hyo-Sang Lim;Elisa Bertino

105
Citations
A reciprocal framework for spatial K-anonymity

Gabriel Ghinita;Keliang Zhao;Dimitris Papadias;Panos Kalnis

105
Citations
Privacy for Location-based Services

Gabriel Ghinita

104
Citations
A Lightweight Secure Scheme for Detecting Provenance Forgery and Packet DropAttacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

Salmin Sultana;Gabriel Ghinita;Elisa Bertino;Mohamed Shehab

103
Citations
A privacy-enhancing content-based publish/subscribe system using scalar product preserving transformations

Sunoh Choi;Gabriel Ghinita;Elisa Bertino

86
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Elisa Bertino Purdue University West Lafayette

Cyrus Shahabi University of Southern California

Panos Kalnis King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Murat Kantarcioglu The University of Texas at Dallas

Ninghui Li Purdue University West Lafayette

Christian S. Jensen Aalborg University

Jennifer Neville Purdue University West Lafayette

Nikos Mamoulis University of Ioannina

Man Lung Yiu Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Peter Scheuermann Northwestern University

External Links

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