Dr. Hongxia Jin

Research Staff Member

Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1999

Research: Computer Security

Content Protection Group and Computer Science

IBM Almaden Research Center

650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA, 95120

• Short Bio

  • I became a Research Staff Member at IBM T.J.Watson Research Center in 1999 after I obtained my Ph.D in Computer Science from the Johns Hopkins University. I am currently a Research Staff Member in Content Protection Group at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA. I am leading research on key management, broadcast encryption ad traitor tracing technologies. The key management and forensic technologies I developed have been adopted by several content protection industry standards including 4C, Content Protection for Recordable Media and AACS, a new content protection standard for managing content stored on next generation high definition Blu-ray DVDs. I have filed about twenty patents in this area and won IBM's Oustanding Innovation Award for my work on broadcast encryption and traitor tracing.

• Research Interests

  • Content Protection, Digital Rights Management, Broadcast Encryption, Traitor Tracing
  • Multimedia Security, Software Security
  • Healthcare security and privacy
  • Web 2.0 Security and Privacy
  • Machine Learning, Collabration Software

• Most Recent Papers

  • Hongxia Jin and Jeff Lotspiech. Unifying Broadcast Encryption and Traitor Tracing for Content Protection ACSAC 09, December, 2009.
  • Qihua Wang, Hongxia Jin, Ninghui Li. Usable Access Control in Collaborative Environments: Authorization Based on People-Tagging ESORICS 2009.
  • Hongxia Jin and Jeff Lotspiech. Broadcast Encryption for Differently Priviledged IFIP International Conference on Information Security (SEC'09) , May 18-20, 2009, Cyprus.
  • Hongxia Jin and Jeff Lotspiech. Defending Against Pirate Evolution Attack ISPEC 09, April, 2009.
  • Hongxia Jin, Jeff Lotspiech, Michael Nelson and Nimrod Megiddo. Adaptive Traitor Tracing for Large Anonymous Attack ACM Digital Rights Management (DRM'08) , Oct. 27, 2008, Alexandria, VA.
  • Hongxia Jin, Jeff Lotspiech, and Nimrod Megiddo. Efficient Coaltion Detection for Traitor Tracing IFIP International Conference on Information Security (SEC'08) , Sept 9-12, 2008, Milan, Italy. Preliminary version is here .
  • Avinash Varna and Hongxia Jin. Generalized Traitor Tracing for Nested Codes. in the 2008 IEEE conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'08) , June 23-26, 2008, Hanover, Germany
  • Hongxia Jin and Jeff Lotspiech. Renewable Traitor Tracing: a Trace-Revoke-Trace System for Anonymous Attack. in the12th European Symposium on Research on Computer Security (ESORICS'07) , Oct 7-12, 2007, Dresden, Germany.
  • Philip Zigoris and Hongxia Jin. Bayesian Methods for Practical Traitor Tracing. in the Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS'07) , June, 2007, China
  • Hongxia Jin and Mario Blaum. Combinatorial Properties for Traceability Codes Using Error Correcting Codes. In IEEE Transactions on Information Security. Volume 53, Issue 2, 2007.

• Recent Invited Talks and Tutorials

  • Tutorial Cryptographic Techniques for Digital Rights Management . at 24th Annual Computer Security Application Conference (ACSAC). Anaheim, CA, December 8, 2008.
  • Combinatorial Approaches for Efficient Traitor Detection. DIMACS workshop on Internet Privacy. Sept, 2008.
  • Key Management for Content Protection. Carnegie Mellon University. Sept, 2008.
  • Traitor Tracing for Anonymous Attack for AACS. Stanford University. June, 2008.
  • Broadcast Encryption and Traitor Tracing for Digital Rights Managements. University of California at Berkeley. March 13, 2008.
  • Tutorial Broadcast Encryption and Traitor Tracing for Digital Rights Managements . at 23th Annual Computer Security Application Conference (ACSAC). Miami, FL, December 10, 2007.
  • Tutorial: Forensic Techniques for Content Protection . A tutorial at the 14th ACM Conference On Computer And Communication Security (CCS). Alexandria, VA, Octber 30, 2007.
  • Tutorial: Multimedia Security Technologies for Digital Rights Management . at 2007 IEEE Conference On Multimedia and Expo (ICME). Beijing, China, June 30, 2007.
  • Broadcast Encryption and Traitor Tracing for Content Protection. Information Security Institute, Johns Hopkins University. November, 2007.
  • Broadcast Encryption and Traitor Tracing for Content Protection, Chinese Academy of Science, State Key Lab for Information Security, Beijing, China. July 2007
  • Traitor Tracing for Anonymous Attack, University of California at Urvine. February 18, 2007.

• Recent Activities

  • Associate Editor, International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics, 2008.
  • Program Committee or chairs
    • DRM: 9th ACM Digital Rights Management (2009) (PC Chair)
    • ICME workshop on Multimedia Security and Content Protection (2009), (PC Chair)
    • ACSAC: The 16th Annual Computer Security Application Conference (2009) (PC member and poster chair).
    • ACSAC: The 15th Annual Computer Security Application Conference (2008).
    • SecureComm: IEEE conference on Secure Communication and Network (2008)
    • ICICS: The Eighth International Conference on Information and Communications Security (2008).
    • ICME: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo(2007, 2008) .
    • DRM: ACM Digital Rights Management (2008)
    • ISPEC: International conference on Information Security and Practice (2008).
    • QoP: International workshop on Quality of Protection, security measurement and metrics (2007, 2008)
  • Reviewer for Journals: ACM TISSEC, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Journal of Computer Security, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia