Kui Ren

35.4k total citations · 19 hit papers
370 papers, 22.5k citations indexed

About

Kui Ren is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Kui Ren has authored 370 papers receiving a total of 22.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 220 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 113 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 107 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Kui Ren's work include Cryptography and Data Security (109 papers), Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (84 papers) and Cloud Data Security Solutions (43 papers). Kui Ren is often cited by papers focused on Cryptography and Data Security (109 papers), Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (84 papers) and Cloud Data Security Solutions (43 papers). Kui Ren collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Kui Ren's co-authors include Wenjing Lou, Cong Wang, Qian Wang, Shucheng Yu, Ning Cao, Jin Li, Ming Li, Zhan Qin, Xingming Sun and Zhangjie Fu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Proceedings of the IEEE and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

In The Last Decade

Kui Ren

347 papers receiving 20.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Achieving Secure, Scalable, and Fine-grained Data Access Control in Cloud Computing
    2010 1000 citations Cong Wang, Kui Ren et al. profile →
  2. Enabling Public Auditability and Data Dynamics for Storage Security in Cloud Computing
    2010 977 citations Qian Wang, Cong Wang et al. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems profile →
  3. Privacy-Preserving Public Auditing for Data Storage Security in Cloud Computing
    2010 888 citations Cong Wang, Qian Wang et al. profile →
  4. Privacy-Preserving Public Auditing for Secure Cloud Storage
    2011 882 citations Cong Wang, Qian Wang et al. profile →
  5. Privacy-Preserving Multi-Keyword Ranked Search over Encrypted Cloud Data
    2013 808 citations Cong Wang, Kui Ren et al. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems profile →
  6. Scalable and Secure Sharing of Personal Health Records in Cloud Computing Using Attribute-Based Encryption
    2012 779 citations Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou et al. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems profile →
  7. Security Challenges for the Public Cloud
    2012 554 citations Kui Ren, Cong Wang et al. profile →
  8. Fuzzy Keyword Search over Encrypted Data in Cloud Computing
    2010 551 citations Qian Wang, Cong Wang et al. profile →
  9. Enabling Personalized Search over Encrypted Outsourced Data with Efficiency Improvement
    2015 531 citations Kui Ren, Xingming Sun et al. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems profile →
  10. A Privacy-Preserving and Copy-Deterrence Content-Based Image Retrieval Scheme in Cloud Computing
    2016 524 citations Zhihua Xia, Xinhui Wang et al. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security profile →
  11. Ensuring data storage security in Cloud Computing
    2009 472 citations Cong Wang, Qian Wang et al. profile →
  12. Secure Ranked Keyword Search over Encrypted Cloud Data
    2010 451 citations Cong Wang, Kui Ren et al. profile →
  13. Toward Efficient Multi-Keyword Fuzzy Search Over Encrypted Outsourced Data With Accuracy Improvement
    2016 432 citations Chaowen Guan, Xingming Sun et al. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security profile →
  14. Data security and privacy in wireless body area networks
    2010 408 citations Wenjing Lou, Kui Ren et al. profile →
  15. Attribute based data sharing with attribute revocation
    2010 405 citations Cong Wang, Kui Ren et al. profile →
  16. Toward Secure and Dependable Storage Services in Cloud Computing
    2011 403 citations Cong Wang, Qian Wang et al. profile →
  17. Modeling Load Redistribution Attacks in Power Systems
    2011 397 citations Kui Ren et al. profile →
  18. Enabling Secure and Efficient Ranked Keyword Search over Outsourced Cloud Data
    2011 353 citations Cong Wang, Kui Ren et al. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems profile →
  19. Privacy-preserving multi-keyword ranked search over encrypted cloud data
    2011 341 citations Cong Wang, Kui Ren et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Kui Ren 14.5k 12.0k 6.2k 3.0k 2.9k 370 22.5k
Debiao He 8.3k 0.6× 11.6k 1.0× 9.6k 1.5× 1.6k 0.5× 3.1k 1.1× 431 17.3k
Wenjing Lou 12.6k 0.9× 10.7k 0.9× 8.0k 1.3× 1.6k 0.5× 3.2k 1.1× 331 20.3k
Jianfeng Ma 7.4k 0.5× 6.3k 0.5× 5.9k 1.0× 1.8k 0.6× 2.5k 0.9× 787 15.3k
Michael R. Lyu 9.9k 0.7× 14.1k 1.2× 9.3k 1.5× 5.2k 1.7× 1.1k 0.4× 626 26.6k
Jin Li 9.2k 0.6× 7.2k 0.6× 5.6k 0.9× 2.2k 0.7× 1.1k 0.4× 432 15.7k
Adi Shamir 14.9k 1.0× 6.3k 0.5× 5.7k 0.9× 6.0k 2.0× 2.1k 0.7× 93 20.5k
Rongxing Lu 10.3k 0.7× 6.6k 0.5× 10.1k 1.6× 1.6k 0.5× 7.0k 2.4× 633 20.9k
Xiaojiang Du 7.0k 0.5× 7.1k 0.6× 11.0k 1.8× 2.1k 0.7× 5.0k 1.8× 628 19.8k
Hai Jin 5.5k 0.4× 9.5k 0.8× 11.9k 1.9× 3.7k 1.2× 2.3k 0.8× 1.5k 20.4k
Adrian Perrig 11.7k 0.8× 6.6k 0.6× 23.3k 3.8× 2.0k 0.7× 5.5k 1.9× 314 31.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kui Ren

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kui Ren

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kui Ren. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kui Ren based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kui Ren. Kui Ren is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mao, Xiaofeng, et al.. (2025). S-Eval: Towards Automated and Comprehensive Safety Evaluation for Large Language Models. Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.. 2(ISSTA). 2136–2157.
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Liu, Jian, et al.. (2025). LookAhead: Preventing DeFi Attacks via Unveiling Adversarial Contracts. Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.. 2(FSE). 1847–1869.
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Benedict, Lorin X., et al.. (2024). MM_Mix: An equation of state generation code for dense mixtures. AIP conference proceedings. 3066. 500002–500002.
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Chen, Wenqing, et al.. (2024). Self-Para-Consistency: Improving Reasoning Tasks at Low Cost for Large Language Models. CityU Scholars. 14162–14167.
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Liu, Jinfei, et al.. (2024). Share: Stackelberg-Nash based Data Markets. 3573–3586.
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Liu, Jinfei, et al.. (2024). When Data Pricing Meets Non-Cooperative Game Theory. 5548–5559. 1 indexed citations
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Chu, Zhixuan, et al.. (2024). A Causal Explainable Guardrails for Large Language Models. 1136–1150. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Tiantian, Feng Lin, Chenhan Xu, et al.. (2023). WavoID: Robust and Secure Multi-modal User Identification via mmWave-voice Mechanism. 1–15. 8 indexed citations
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Ren, Kui, et al.. (2023). Privacy-Preserving Industrial Control System Anomaly Detection Platform. Security and Communication Networks. 2023. 1–12. 2 indexed citations
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Cui, Yong, Ningwei Dai, Zeqi Lai, et al.. (2019). TailCutter: Wisely Cutting Tail Latency in Cloud CDNs Under Cost Constraints. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 27(4). 1612–1628. 16 indexed citations
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Gu, Zhaoquan, Yuexuan Wang, Wei Shi, et al.. (2019). A Practical Neighbor Discovery Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks. Sensors. 19(8). 1887–1887. 4 indexed citations
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Zhu, Jie, Qi Li, Cong Wang, et al.. (2018). Enabling Generic, Verifiable, and Secure Data Search in Cloud Services. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 29(8). 1721–1735. 78 indexed citations
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Mohaisen, Aziz, Zhongshu Gu, Kui Ren, et al.. (2018). Look-Aside at Your Own Risk: Privacy Implications of DNSSEC Look-Aside Validation. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 17(4). 745–759. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Leo Yu, et al.. (2018). You Can Access but You Cannot Leak: Defending Against Illegal Content Redistribution in Encrypted Cloud Media Center. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 17(6). 1218–1231. 27 indexed citations
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Cui, Yong, Jian Song, Kui Ren, et al.. (2017). Software Defined Cooperative Offloading for Mobile Cloudlets. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 25(3). 1746–1760. 62 indexed citations
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Fan, Jingyuan, Chaowen Guan, Kui Ren, Yong Cui, & Chunming Qiao. (2017). SPABox: Safeguarding Privacy During Deep Packet Inspection at a MiddleBox. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 25(6). 3753–3766. 34 indexed citations
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Xia, Zhihua, et al.. (2016). A Privacy-Preserving and Copy-Deterrence Content-Based Image Retrieval Scheme in Cloud Computing. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 11(11). 2594–2608. 524 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Cong, Qian Wang, Kui Ren, & Wenjing Lou. (2009). Ensuring data storage security in Cloud Computing. 1–9. 472 indexed citations breakdown →

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