Libertas: Privacy-Preserving Computation for Decentralised Personal Data Stores Rui Zhao, Naman Goel, Nitin Agrawal, Jun Zhao, Jake Stein, Wael Albayaydh, Ruben Verborgh, Reuben Binns, Tim Berners-Lee, Nigel Shadbolt
(Accepted by) The 28th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2025) [Paper][Repo][Protocol Spec]
Position: Current Model Licensing Practices are Dragging Us into a Quagmire of Legal Noncompliance
Moming Duan, Mingzhe Du, Rui Zhao, Mengying Wang, Yinghui Wu, Nigel Shadbolt, Bingsheng He
The 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025)
Trouble in Paradise? Understanding Mastodon Admin’s Motivations, Experiences, and Challenges Running Decentralised Social Media
Zhilin Zhang, Jun Zhao, …, Rui Zhao, …, Nigel Shadbolt
The 27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2024) [Paper]
Perennial Semantic Data Terms of Use for Decentralized Web Rui Zhao, Jun Zhao
Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024 (WWW 2024) [Paper][Repo][Protocol Spec]
SocialGenPod: Privacy-Friendly Generative AI Social Web Applications with Decentralised Personal Data Stores
Vidminas Vizgirda, Rui Zhao, Naman Goel
Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024 (WWW 2024) [Paper][Repo]
‘You are you and the app. There’s nobody else.’: Building Worker-Designed Data Institutions within Platform Hegemony’
Jake Stein, Vidminas Vizgirda, …, Rui Zhao, …, Nigel Shadbolt
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023) [Paper]
Dr.Aid: supporting data-governance rule compliance for decentralized collaboration in an automated way Rui Zhao, Malcolm Atkinson, Petros Papapanagiotou, Federica Magnoni, Jacques Fleuriot
The 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2021) [Paper][Repo]
An Automated Framework for Supporting Data-Governance Rule Compliance in Decentralized MIMO Contexts Rui Zhao
Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021), Doctoral Consortium
Towards a Computer-Interpretable Actionable Formal Model to Encode Data Governance Rules Rui Zhaom Malcolm Atkinson
Proceedings of 2019 15th International Conference on eScience (eScience 2019), BC2DC
Preprints / Working Papers
Let’s Measure the Elephant in the Room: Facilitating Personalized Automated Analysis of Privacy Policies at Scale Rui Zhao, Vladyslav Melnychuk, Jun Zhao, Jesse Wright, Nigel Shadbolt [Paper]
“They’ve Stolen My GPL-Licensed Model!”: Toward Standardized and Transparent Model Licensing’
Moming Duan, Rui Zhao, Linshan Jiang, Nigel Shadbolt, Bingsheng He [Paper]
Decentralised, Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Data Generation
Vishal Ramesh, Rui Zhao and Naman Goel [Paper]
A Logical Formalization of a Data-Use Policy Language for Data-Flow Graphs Rui Zhao, Malcolm Atkinson, Petros Papapanagiotou and Jacques Fleuriot
CEUR & Other
Introduce an Auditing Layer to Web Science Rui Zhao and Jesse Wright
In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Web Science Conference Companion 2025
Me Want Cookie! Towards Automated and Transparent Data Governance on the Web’
Jesse Wright, Beatriz Esteves, and Rui Zhao
NXDG, SEMANTiCS 2024
Long-living Service for Cooperative Knowledge Use in Decentralized Data Stores Rui Zhao, Jun Zhao, and Zimeng Zhou
TrusDeKW, ESWC’23
Computer-supported ethical rules for collaboratively sharing data Rui Zhao, Malcolm Atkinson, Petros Papapanagiotou, Jacques Fleuriot, and Christian Pagé
Ethics in Design, 23rd ACM Conference on CSCW (CSCW 2020)