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Privacy-Preserving AI: Encryption and Differential Privacy

Submission Deadline: 30 September 2026 View: 2560 Submit to Special Issue

Guest Editor(s)

Assoc. Prof. Wen-Chen Hu

Email: wen.chen.hu@und.edu

Affiliation: School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, United States

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Research Interests: (mobile) data research and applications such as (mobile) data security & mining, and mobile/smartphone/spatial/web computing

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Dr. Sanjaikanth E Vadakkethil Somanathan Pillai

Email: s.evadakkethil@und.edu

Affiliation: School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, United States

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Research Interests: artificial intelligence, machine learning, security, privacy, mobile networks

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Prof. Piyush Kumar Pareek

Email: piyush.kumar@nmit.ac.in

Affiliation: Department of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India

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Research Interests: software engineering, data Science, data compression, image processing, deep learning

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Assist. Prof. Preetisudha Meher

Email: preetisudha@nitap.ac.in

Affiliation: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering National Institute of Technology, Arunachal Pradesh, India

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Research Interests: low power VLSI, digital VLSI, embedded systems, IoT, bioinformatics , AIML

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Summary

As artificial intelligence systems increasingly process sensitive personal and organizational data, the need for robust privacy-preserving techniques has become paramount. Encryption and differential privacy have emerged as foundational pillars for securing AI applications, enabling computation on protected data while providing mathematical guarantees against information leakage.


This special issue aims to bring together cutting-edge research addressing the intersection of encryption technologies and differential privacy mechanisms in modern computing systems. We seek contributions that advance both theoretical foundations and practical implementations, fostering innovation in privacy-preserving computation.

 
Suggested Themes
· Homomorphic Encryption for Machine Learning
· Differential Privacy in Deep Learning and Data Analytics
· Secure Multi-Party Computation Protocols
· Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
· Encrypted Search and Database Systems
· Post-Quantum Cryptographic Solutions
· Privacy Budget Management and Composition Theorems


Keywords

encryption, differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, secure multi-party computation, privacy-preserving machine learning, cryptographic protocols, data confidentiality, federated learning

Published Papers


  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    GuardML: A Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption Framework for Privacy-Preserving Federated Deep Learning

    Saadaldeen Rashid Ahmed, Fatima Abu Siryeh, Mohammed Shamar Yadkar, Oguz Bayat, Abu Saleh Musa Miah, Fahmid Al Farid, Hezerul Abdul Karim
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.082782
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Privacy-Preserving AI: Encryption and Differential Privacy)
    Abstract Privacy-preserving federated learning (FL) has emerged as an effective paradigm for collaborative model training across distributed data sources while maintaining data confidentiality. However, protecting sensitive information during model aggregation remains a significant challenge in distributed deep learning environments. This paper introduces GuardML, a secure federated learning framework that integrates a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) with Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption (HHE) to enable privacy-preserving learning on high-dimensional distributed datasets. In the proposed system, client nodes perform local model training using encrypted data representations, ensuring that raw data remains protected during the learning process. Encrypted model updates are… More >

  • Open Access

    REVIEW

    Privacy-Preserving Cryptography for Machine Learning: A Comprehensive Review of Homomorphic Encryption, Differential Privacy, Secure Computation, and Post-Quantum Foundations

    Quang-Vinh Dang, Dat Le, Minh Ngoc Dinh, Ngoc-Son-An Nguyen
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.087848
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Privacy-Preserving AI: Encryption and Differential Privacy)
    Abstract Deploying machine learning on sensitive data has made privacy a first-order design constraint. Over the past five years privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) has matured from isolated proofs of concept into an ecosystem of cryptographic and statistical techniques, each occupying a distinct point in the trade-off space among confidentiality, integrity, utility, cost and trust. This review surveys that ecosystem for a research audience. We examine homomorphic encryption, including several currently available bootstrapping styles and encrypted transformer inference; differential privacy in deep learning, analytics and the private fine-tuning of large language models; privacy budget management through composition… More >

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