Zhongtian Jia

Zhongtian Jia


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Academic Career Length

16Years (2011-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 October 2015 in Physics Letters A
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HLHong Lai
Hong Lai
MOMehmet A. Orgun
Mehmet A. Orgun
Josef PieprzykJosef Pieprzyk
Josef Pieprzyk
JXJinghua Xiao
Jinghua Xiao
LXLiyin Xue
Liyin Xue
ZJZhongtian Jia
Zhongtian Jia

10 March 2011 in Security and Communication Networks
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ZJZhongtian Jia
Zhongtian Jia
SLShudong Li
Shudong Li
HPHaipeng Peng
Haipeng Peng
YYYixian Yang
Yixian Yang
SGShize Guo
Shize Guo

1 April 2026 in Information
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JLJunyu Lu
Junyu Lu
Shengnan ZhaoShengnan Zhao
Shengnan Zhao
HYHuang Yuchen
Huang Yuchen
ZJZhongtian Jia
Zhongtian Jia
LZLili Zhang
Lili Zhang
Chuan ZhaoChuan Zhao
Chuan Zhao
Keyword Private Information Retrieval (Keyword PIR) enables private querying over keyword-based databases, which are typically sparse, as opposed to the dense arrays used in standard Index PIR. However, existing Keyword PIR schemes are limited to single-keyword queries and generally assume that keywords serve as unique identifiers, making them inadequate for practical scenarios where keywords are non-unique attributes and clients need to retrieve records matching multiple keywords simultaneously. To bridge this gap, we propose MkCwPIR, the first single-round, exact-match multi-keyword PIR protocol that supports conjunctive keyword queries while preserving strict keyword privacy against the server. Our construction employs Constant-weight codes and Newton–Girard identities to encode multi-keyword selection into a compact algebraic representation, representing a functional extension of CwPIR (Usenix Security ’22). While this functional expansion introduces additional computational overhead due to the processing of multiple keywords, we further introduce VMkCwPIR—an optimized variant leveraging BFV vectorized homomorphic encryption. Experimental results demonstrate that although the base MkCwPIR incurs higher latency due to its enhanced logical capabilities, the vectorized optimizations in VMkCwPIR effectively close this performance gap. Consequently, VMkCwPIR achieves a performance level comparable to the single-keyword CwPIR. Experimental results demonstrate that when processing a query with eight keywords, VMkCwPIR achieves a server-side execution time comparable to executing only four independent single-keyword queries in CwPIR, while maintaining constant communication overhead for up to 16 keywords.