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China
2026

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Computer Science

D-Index
102
Citations
56597
World Ranking
332
National Ranking
40

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award
  • 2020 - ACM Fellow For contributions to wireless system security and cloud data security
  • 2017 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2016 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to security and privacy in cloud computing and wireless networks

Overview

Kui Ren is affiliated with Zhejiang University in China and has an extensive publication record in computer science, with a particular focus on security, privacy, and machine learning. Their research spans several subfields, including artificial intelligence, information systems, computer networks and communications, signal processing, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Their work covers a variety of major topics such as adversarial robustness in machine learning, cryptography and data security, privacy-preserving technologies in data, advanced malware detection techniques, anomaly detection techniques and applications, internet traffic analysis and secure e-voting, as well as blockchain technology applications and security.

Kui Ren has published research in leading venues, frequently contributing to:

  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

The scientist often collaborates with several coauthors, frequently working with Feng Lin, Zhongjie Ba, Zhibo Wang, Zhan Qin, and Li Lü.

Among Kui Ren's recent papers are:

  • Adversarial Attacks and Defenses in Deep Learning, 2020, published in Engineering
  • Feature Importance-aware Transferable Adversarial Attacks, 2021, presented at the 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
  • AVoiD-DF: Audio-Visual Joint Learning for Detecting Deepfake, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • Detection and Mitigation of DoS Attacks in Software Defined Networks, 2020, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • e-PoS: Making Proof-of-Stake Decentralized and Fair, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Kui Ren's contributions to the fields of wireless system security and cloud data security have been formally recognized. The scientist was named an ACM Fellow in 2020 and an IEEE Fellow in 2016 for their work in security and privacy in cloud computing and wireless networks. Additionally, they received the ACM Distinguished Member designation in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Privacy-Preserving Multi-Keyword Ranked Search over Encrypted Cloud Data

    Ning Cao;Cong Wang;Ming Li;Kui Ren

  • Privacy-Preserving Public Auditing for Data Storage Security in Cloud Computing

    Cong Wang;Qian Wang;Kui Ren;Wenjing Lou

  • Achieving Secure, Scalable, and Fine-grained Data Access Control in Cloud Computing

    Shucheng Yu;Cong Wang;Kui Ren;Wenjing Lou

  • Ensuring Data Storage Security in Cloud Computing.

    Cong Wang;Qian Wang;Kui Ren;Wenjing Lou

  • Privacy-Preserving Public Auditing for Secure Cloud Storage

    Cong Wang;S. S. M. Chow;Qian Wang;Kui Ren

  • Enabling Public Auditability and Data Dynamics for Storage Security in Cloud Computing

    Qian Wang;Cong Wang;Kui Ren;Wenjing Lou

  • Scalable and Secure Sharing of Personal Health Records in Cloud Computing Using Attribute-Based Encryption

    Ming Li;Shucheng Yu;Yao Zheng;Kui Ren

  • Enabling public verifiability and data dynamics for storage security in cloud computing

    Qian Wang;Cong Wang;Jin Li;Kui Ren

  • Fuzzy Keyword Search over Encrypted Data in Cloud Computing

    Jin Li;Qian Wang;Cong Wang;Ning Cao

  • Security Challenges for the Public Cloud

    Kui Ren;Cong Wang;Qian Wang

  • Secure Ranked Keyword Search over Encrypted Cloud Data

    Cong Wang;Ning Cao;Jin Li;Kui Ren

  • Attribute based data sharing with attribute revocation

    Shucheng Yu;Cong Wang;Kui Ren;Wenjing Lou

  • Toward Secure and Dependable Storage Services in Cloud Computing

    Cong Wang;Qian Wang;Kui Ren;Ning Cao

  • Enabling Personalized Search over Encrypted Outsourced Data with Efficiency Improvement

    Zhangjie Fu;Kui Ren;Jiangang Shu;Xingming Sun

  • Data security and privacy in wireless body area networks

    Ming Li;Wenjing Lou;Kui Ren

  • Enabling Secure and Efficient Ranked Keyword Search over Outsourced Cloud Data

    Cong Wang;Ning Cao;Kui Ren;Wenjing Lou

  • A Privacy-Preserving and Copy-Deterrence Content-Based Image Retrieval Scheme in Cloud Computing

    Zhihua Xia;Xinhui Wang;Liangao Zhang;Zhan Qin

  • Securing Personal Health Records in Cloud Computing: Patient-Centric and Fine-Grained Data Access Control in Multi-owner Settings

    Ming Li;Shucheng Yu;Kui Ren;Wenjing Lou

  • Toward publicly auditable secure cloud data storage services

    Cong Wang;Kui Ren;Wenjing Lou;Jin Li

  • Adversarial Attacks and Defenses in Deep Learning

    Kui Ren;Tianhang Zheng;Zhan Qin;Xue Liu

  • Efficient verifiable fuzzy keyword search over encrypted data in cloud computing

    Jianfeng Wang;Hua Ma;Qiang Tang;Jin Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Wenjing Lou
Wenjing Lou Virginia Tech
Cong Wang
Cong Wang City University of Hong Kong
Zhan Qin
Zhan Qin Zhejiang University
Shucheng Yu
Shucheng Yu Stevens Institute of Technology
Jin Li
Jin Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kai Zeng
Kai Zeng George Mason University
Andreas H. Hielscher
Andreas H. Hielscher New York University
Lu Su
Lu Su Purdue University West Lafayette
Yanchao Zhang
Yanchao Zhang Arizona State University
Xiaohua Jia
Xiaohua Jia City University of Hong Kong

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