His research interests lie in the area of data security and privacy, with a focus on privacy-preserving transformation of microdata, private queries in location-based services and privacy-preserving sharing of sensitive datasets. Prior to joining the University of Massachusetts, Dr. Ghinita was a research associate with the Cyber Center at Purdue University, and a member of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). He also held visiting researcher appointments with the National University of Singapore, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong University. Dr. Ghinita has served as reviewer for top journals and conferences such as IEEE TPDS, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TMC, VLDBJ, VLDB, WWW, ICDE and ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS.