“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”-Proverbs 9:10

Hi! I am a Dr. Kamal Macwan, currently working as Research Associate at university of Wollongong, NSW, Australia. Previously, I worked as Postdoc Researcher and as Research Engineer at Inria, France.

I have been active as Researcher, Reviewer, Session Chair/Speaker in several training progrmans/conferences. In free time, like to play guitar and to listen some soft music, exploring new places, cooking(sometimes;) and spending time with my lovely family(Wife+Daughter).

Research Interest : Social Network Data Privacy, Security, Diiferential Privacy, Machine Learning
Associate Research Fellow 2024

May"24 to Till date
University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia

PostDoc Researcher 2023

Jan"23 to Sep"23
Inria, Lille, France

Researcher 2022

Jan"22 to Dec"22
Loria, Nancy, France

Assistant Professor 2021

April"21 to Dec"21
Nirma University, Gujarat, India

Assistant Professor 2020-2021

Oct"20 to April"21
ITM(SLS) Baroda University, Gujarat, India

PhD Scholar 2015-2019

July"15 to Dec"19
SVNIT, Surat, Gujarat, India

Assistant Professor 2013-2015

Sep"13 to May"15
VIER, Kotambi, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

Publications

1. Kamalkumar Macwan, Sankita Patel, “k-degree Anonymity Model for Social Network Data Publishing”, Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 117-124, 2017. (SCI Journal)

2. Kamalkumar Macwan, Sankita Patel, “k-NMF Anonymization in Social Network Data Publishing”, The Computer Journal, Oxford press, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 601- 613, 2018. (SCI Journal)

3. Kamalkumar Macwan, Sankita Patel, “Mutual Friend Attack Prevention in Social Network Data Publishing”, in proceedings of 7th International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering, SPACE"17, Springer LNCS, Vol. 10662, pp:210-225, 2017, Goa, India.

4. Kamalkumar Macwan, Sankita Patel, “Node Differential Privacy in Social Graph Degree Publishing”, Procedia Computer Science (SCOPUS), Elsevier, Vol. 143, 2018, pp:786-793, September 2018, Cochin, India.

5. Kamalkumar Macwan, Sankita Patel, “Privacy Preserving Approach in Dynamic Social Network Data Publishing”, in proceedings of 15th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, ISPEC"19, Springer LNCS, Vol. 11879, pp:381-398, November 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

6. Kamalkumar Macwan, Sankita Patel, “Privacy Preservation Approaches for Social Network Data Publishing”, Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security: Methods, Issues and Possible Horizons or Opportunities. Springer, Cham, 2021. 213-233. (Book Chapter)

7. K. Macwan, A. Imine and M. Rusinowitch, "Privacy Preserving Recommendations for Social Networks," 2022 Ninth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS), IEEE, pp. 1-8, Milan, Italy, 2022.

8. K. Macwan, A. Imine, M. Rusinowitch, “Differentially Private Friends Recommendation”. In: Jourdan, GV., Mounier, L., Adams, C., Sèdes, F., Garcia-Alfaro, J. (eds) Foundations and Practice of Security. FPS 2022, Springer LNCS, vol 13877, December 2022.