Fuming Shih

 MIT CSAIL
32 Vassar St, G386
Cambridge, MA 02139

email: my first name at mit.edu
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"You know who you are you just have to believe it."- Elizabeth Scott

fuming Fuming Shih is a PhD student in CSAIL at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of Decentralized Information Group, and is fortunate to have Hal Abelson as his advisor and a group of outstanding researchers as his colleagues. Fuming's research is about privacy and accountability for collection and uses of personal data, especially those from our connected personal devices. His work involves understanding human behavior in privacy, modeling people's preferences for disclosing personal data, and developing tools to support user-centric privacy framework. The research adopts a cross-disciplinary approach (policy, law, and technology) to address privacy issues with feasible solutions. Prior to MIT, Fuming worked as an associate researcher in Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan. He joined several large scale research projects such as developing applications for city-wide Wi-Fi network in Taipei and drafting the call for proposals on WiMAX/Wireless technology for Taiwan High Speed Rail. Fuming obtained his bachelor degree and master degree in Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University.

Recent Events

16 January 2014 : Just finished teaching an IAP class (Unlocking smartphone data for research purpose).

30 September 2013 : Our project about building smartphone apps for disaster relief featured on MIT News!

11 September 2013 : Paper on Unlocking Smartphone Data for Educational Use in Teaching and Learning Environment (joint work with Weihua Li) accepted to Smart Univesity Workshop in Eighth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, 2013.

25 Augugst 2013 : Paper on No Surprises: Measuring Intrusiveness of Smartphone Applications By Detecting Objective Context Deviations accepted to Twelfth Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society

22 July 2013: Paper on Understanding People's Preferences for Disclosing Contextual Information to Smartphone Apps received best paper award in 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (thematic area: Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy and Trust)

31 May 2013: Paper on Democratizing Mobile App Development for Disaster Management accepted to Workshop on Semantic Cities at IJCAI 2013

20 February 2013: Presenting privacy research on Privacy Fingerprint of Smartphone Apps in Federal Trade Commission office in Washington, DC.

17 January 2013: Invited talk on New Challenges of Personal Privacy in the age of Big data (in Chinese) at Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan

4 September 2012: Fox News Boston interviewed me about my research in smartphone privacy. Interview video clip

2 September 2012: Boston Globe reported my research on Privacy Fingerprint (joint work with Frances Zhange)

Publications

Shih, Fuming and Boortz, Julia. Understanding People's Preferences for Disclosing Contextual Information to Smartphone Apps. 1st International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy and Trust, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 2013. [ PAPER ]
Frances, Zhang, Shih, Fuming, and Weitzner, Daniel. No Surprises: Measuring Intrusiveness of Smartphone Applications By Detecting Objective Context Deviations Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society. in 20th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, November 2013. [ PAPER ]
Fuming Shih, Oshani Seneviratne, Daniela Miao, Ilaria Liccardi, Lalana Kagal, Evan Patton, Patrick Meier and Carlos Castillo. Democratizing Mobile App Development for Disaster Management. IJCAI 2013 Workshop on Semantic Cities, Beijing, China, July 2013. [ PAPER ]
Kuo, Yen-Ling, Shih, Fuming, and Hsu, Jane. Contextual commonsense knowledge acquisition from social content by crowd-sourcing explanations. 4th AAAI Workshop on Human Computation (HCOMP'12), Toronto, July. 2012. [ PAPER ]
Paradesi, Sharon and Shih, Fuming. GlobalInferencer: Linking Personal Social Content with Data on the Web. ICWSM-11 Workshop on The Future of Social Web, Barcelona, July 2011. [ PAPER ]
Pato, Joe, Paradesi, Sharon, Jacobi, Ian, Shih, Fuming, and Wang, Sam Aintno: Demonstration of Information Accountability on the Web . Third IEEE International Conference on Information Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT'11), Boston, October 2011. [ PAPER ]
Shih, Fuming, Narayanan, Vidya, and Kuhn, Lukas. Enabling Semantic Understanding of Situations from Contextual Data In A Privacy-Sensitive Manner. AAAI-11 Workshop on Activity Context Representation: Techniques and Languages, San Francisco, August 2011. [ PAPER ]
Shih, Fuming and Zhang, Mi. Towards Supporting Contextual Privacy in Body Sensor Networks for Health Monitoring Service. W3C Workshop on Privacy and data usage control, Cambridge, October 2010. [ PAPER ]
Shih, Fuming and Paradesi, Sharon. Saveface: Save George's faces in Social Networks where Contexts Collapse. IAB/W3C Internet Privacy Workshop, Cambridge, December 2010. [ PAPER ]
Shih, Fuming and Kagal, Lalana. Policy-Aware Pipes: Support Accountability in Mashup Service of Linked Data. 3rd International SMR2 Workshop on Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web, Cambridge, October 2009. [ PAPER ]

Talks

Information and Communication Lab, ITRI. Challenges of Personal Privacy in the Big Data Era. Jan 2013
Graduate school of Shenzhen Hsinghua University. Privacy for Personal Sensing on Smartphones. Jan 2013
Federal Trade Commission office, AppWindow: Monitoring Apps Behaviors for Contextual Privacy. Feb 2013

Contact


Office: G386 Stata Center, Massachusett Institute of Technology