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most citedAdvancing privacy in learning analytics using differential privacy

21 citations · 24 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2026

PEG-Tab: Sampling-Time Record Repair and Release Control for Tabular Synthesis

Pengfei Li, QinYi Liu, Mohammad Khalil

Pretrained tabular generators can reproduce training records even when aggregate utility remains high. When retraining is unavailable or too costly, sampling and release are the re…

cs.LG2026★ 1 cited

Causal Pre-training Under the Fairness Lens: An Empirical Study of TabPFN

Qinyi Liu, Mohammad Khalil, Naman Goel

Foundation models for tabular data, such as the Tabular Prior-data Fitted Network (TabPFN), are pre-trained on a massive number of synthetic datasets generated by structural causal…

cs.CY2026

Brief but Impactful: How Human Tutoring Interactions Shape Engagement in Online Learning

Conrad Borchers, Ashish Gurung, Qinyi Liu +3

Learning analytics can guide human tutors to efficiently address motivational barriers to learning that AI systems struggle to support. Students become more engaged when they recei…

cs.CY2026

Measuring the Impact of Student Gaming Behaviors on Learner Modeling

Qinyi Liu, Lin Li, Valdemar Švábenský +2

The expansion of large-scale online education platforms has made vast amounts of student interaction data available for knowledge tracing (KT). KT models estimate students' concept…

cs.CR2026

Quality Degradation Attack in Synthetic Data

Qinyi Liu, Dong Liu, Sam Urmian +2

Synthetic Data Generation (SDG) can be used to facilitate privacy-preserving data sharing. However, most existing research focuses on privacy attacks where the adversary is the rec…

cs.LG2025

Towards Privacy-Preserving Data-Driven Education: The Potential of Federated Learning

Mohammad Khalil, Ronas Shakya, Qinyi Liu

The increasing adoption of data-driven applications in education such as in learning analytics and AI in education has raised significant privacy and data protection concerns. Whil…

cs.LG2025

Creating Artificial Students that Never Existed: Leveraging Large Language Models and CTGANs for Synthetic Data Generation

Mohammad Khalil, Sam Urmian, Ronas Shakya +1

In this study, we explore the growing potential of AI and deep learning technologies, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Large Language Models (LLMs), for gene…

cs.CR2025★ 21 cited

Advancing privacy in learning analytics using differential privacy

Qinyi Liu, Ronas Shakya, Mohammad Khalil +1

This paper addresses the challenge of balancing learner data privacy with the use of data in learning analytics (LA) by proposing a novel framework by applying Differential Privacy…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Can Synthetic Data be Fair and Private? A Comparative Study of Synthetic Data Generation and Fairness Algorithms

Qinyi Liu, Oscar Deho, Sam Urmian +3

The increasing use of machine learning in learning analytics (LA) has raised significant concerns around algorithmic fairness and privacy. Synthetic data has emerged as a dual-purp…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Scaling While Privacy Preserving: A Comprehensive Synthetic Tabular Data Generation and Evaluation in Learning Analytics

Qinyi Liu, Mohammad Khalil, Ronas Shakya +1

Privacy poses a significant obstacle to the progress of learning analytics (LA), presenting challenges like inadequate anonymization and data misuse that current solutions struggle…