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Roberto Yus
Roberto Yus

Assistant Professor

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University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, 342 ITE, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, United States

Dr. Roberto Yus is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, Irvine working with Prof. Sharad Mehrotra in the ISG group and a Ph.D. student at the University of Zaragoza under Prof. Eduardo Mena. He was also a visiting research student at UMBC in 2014 and 2015. His research focuses on the design of semantic data management solutions to empower IoT systems to understand user information requirements and user privacy preferences and adapt their operations taking those into account. He is broadly interested in IoT contexts spanning from smart buildings and spaces to smart water systems. In the past, he also worked in agent systems, location-dependent queries, context-awareness, and multimedia and has have interests in those. I'm also interested in the development and deployment of systems and tools based on my research in the real world. My work on IoT systems at UC Irvine has been deployed in several US campuses.

Roberto Yus

Publications

2024

  1. A. Hamid, H. R. Samidi, T. Finin, P. Pappachan, and R. Yus, "GenAIPABench: A Benchmark for Generative AI-based Privacy Assistants", Article, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, July 2024, 564 downloads.

2023

  1. A. Hamid, H. R. Samidi, T. Finin, P. Pappachan, and R. Yus, "PrivacyLens: A Framework to Collect and Analyze the Landscape of Past, Present, and Future Smart Device Privacy Policies", Article, CoRR abs/2308.05890, August 2023, 308 downloads.

2022

  1. P. Gupta, S. Mehrotra, S. Sharma, R. Yus, and N. Venkatasubramanian, "Sentaur: Sensor Observable Data Model for Smart Spaces", InProceedings, 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), October 2022, 248 downloads.
  2. D. Ghosh, P. Gupta, S. Dixit, and R. Yus, "JENNER: Just-in-time Enrichment in Query Processing", InProceedings, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, September 2022, 489 downloads.
  3. R. Yus, G. Bouloukakis, S. Mehrotra, and N. Venkatasubramanian, "The SemIoTic Ecosystem: A Semantic Bridge between IoT Devices and Smart Spaces", Article, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, August 2022, 289 downloads.
  4. A. Chio, D. Jiang, P. Gupta, G. Bouloukakis, R. Yus, S. Dixit, and N. Venkatasubramanian, "SmartSPEC: Customizable Smart Space Datasets via Event-driven Simulations", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), March 2022, 271 downloads.
  5. A. Chio, D. Jiang, P. Gupta, G. Bouloukakis, R. Yus, S. Mehrotra, and N. Venkatasubramanian, "Artifact: SmartSPEC: Customizable Smart Space Datasets via Event-driven Simulations", InProceedings, 20th International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, March 2022, 234 downloads.

2016

  1. A. L. Kashyap, L. Han, R. Yus, J. Sleeman, T. W. Satyapanich, S. R. Gandhi, and T. Finin, "Robust Semantic Text Similarity Using LSA, Machine Learning and Linguistic Resources", Article, Language Resources and Evaluation, March 2016, 2413 downloads.

2015

  1. P. Pappachan, R. Yus, P. K. Das, S. Mehrotra, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Building a Mobile Applications Knowledge Base for the Linked Data Cloud", InProceedings, 1st International Workshop on Mobile Deployment of Semantic Technologies (MoDeST 2015), co-located with the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015), Bethlehem, PA (USA), October 2015, 1416 downloads.
  2. P. Pappachan, R. Yus, P. K. Das, S. Mehrotra, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Mobipedia: Mobile Applications Linked Data", InProceedings, 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015), Bethlehem, PA (USA), October 2015, 1436 downloads.

2014

  1. P. Pappachan, R. Yus, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Rafiki: A Semantic and Collaborative Approach to Community Health-care in Underserved Areas", InProceedings, 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2014), October 2014, 1718 downloads.
  2. R. Yus, V. Mulwad, T. Finin, and E. Mena, "Infoboxer: Using Statistical and Semantic Knowledge to Help Create Wikipedia Infoboxes", InProceedings, 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), Riva del Garda (Italy), October 2014, 1240 downloads.
  3. R. Yus, P. Pappachan, P. K. Das, T. Finin, A. Joshi, and E. Mena, "Semantics for Privacy and Shared Context", InProceedings, Second International Workshop on Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology (PrivOn 2014), Riva del Garda (Italy), October 2014, October 2014, 1374 downloads.
  4. P. Pappachan, R. Yus, P. K. Das, T. Finin, E. Mena, and A. Joshi, "A Semantic Context-Aware Privacy Model for FaceBlock", InProceedings, Second International Workshop on Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology (PrivOn 2014), Riva del Garda (Italy), October 2014, 3056 downloads.
  5. T. Finin, A. Joshi, P. Pappachan, R. Yus, P. K. Das, and E. Mena, "Privacy in a World of Mobile Devices", InProceedings, NSF Workshop on Big Data Security and Privacy, September 2014, 1480 downloads.
  6. A. L. Kashyap, L. Han, R. Yus, J. Sleeman, T. W. Satyapanich, S. R. Gandhi, and T. Finin, "Meerkat Mafia: Multilingual and Cross-Level Semantic Textual Similarity systems", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, August 2014, 4222 downloads.
  7. R. Yus, P. Pappachan, P. K. Das, E. Mena, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "FaceBlock: Privacy-Aware Pictures for Google Glass", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, June 2014, 3479 downloads.