Publications

Papers, book chapters, posters, and thesis

For the complete and current list of publications, see my Google Scholar profile.

Journal articles

  1. The influence of ethnic name characteristics on string similarities when linking large heterogeneous population databases Yashithi Dharmawimala, Peter Christen, Sumayya Ziyad, Anushka Vidanage, Joseph Lam, Rainer Schnell International Journal of Population Data Science, 11 (5), 2026.
  2. Diversity of record pairs and mental models in clerical review: What reviewers use to decide matches Yashithi Dharmawimala, Peter Christen, Sumayya Ziyad, Joseph Lam, Anushka Vidanage, Rainer Schnell International Journal of Population Data Science, 11 (5), 2026.
  3. The use of differential privacy for privacy-preserving record linkage: Protecting the bits but not the people Sumayya Ziyad, Peter Christen, Rainer Schnell, Lucas Lange, Anushka Vidanage Information Systems Journal, 102726, 2026.
  4. Information leakage in the practical linking of sensitive data: Parties, protocols, and adversaries Peter Christen, Rainer Schnell, Anushka Vidanage Information Systems Journal, 102720, 2026.
  5. Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage using Reference Set based Encoding: A Single Parameter Method Sumayya Ziyad, Peter Christen, Anushka Vidanage, Charini Nanayakkara, Rainer Schnell Information Systems Journal, 102569, 2025.
  6. A Vulnerability Assessment Framework for Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Anushka Vidanage, Peter Christen, Thilina Ranbaduge, Rainer Schnell ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 26 (3), 2022.
  7. A Taxonomy of Attacks on Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Anushka Vidanage, Thilina Ranbaduge, Peter Christen, Rainer Schnell Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality (JPC), 12 (1), 2022.
  8. A critique and attack on Blockchain-based privacy-preserving record linkage Peter Christen, Rainer Schnell, Thilina Ranbaduge, Anushka Vidanage Information Systems Journal, 101930, 2021.
  9. A Privacy Attack on Multiple Dynamic Match-key based Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Anushka Vidanage, Thilina Ranbaduge, Peter Christen, Sean Randall International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS), 5 (1), 2020.

Conference papers / posters

  1. Implementing Encrypted Private Data Sharing between Personal Data Vaults Anushka Vidanage, Jess Moore, Dawei Chen, Graham Williams, Sergio José Rodríguez Méndez, Tony Chen 4th Privacy & Personal Data Management Session at Solid Symposium, 2026.
  2. Rio: Federated Privacy-First Data Collection in Medical Research Clinical Trials using Personal Online Datastores Sergio José Rodríguez Méndez, Anushka Vidanage, Dawei Chen, Yang Chen, Caley Sullivan, Graham Williams Solid Symposium, 2026 (Poster).
  3. Packages for Developing Apps for Data Sovereignty and Privacy with the Solid specification and the Flutter Web Framework Jess Moore, Anushka Vidanage, Dawei Chen, Tony Chen, Sergio José Rodríguez Méndez, Graham Williams Solid Symposium, 2026 (Poster).
  4. Vulnerability-Aware Hardening for Secure Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Sumayya Ziyad, Peter Christen, Anushka Vidanage, Charini Nanayakkara, Rainer Schnell 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 4582-459, 2025.
  5. A Method and APP for Measuring the Heterogenous Costs and Benefits of Justice Processes Matthew Manning, Gabriel T.W. Wong, Chris Mahony, Anushka Vidanage Frontiers in Psychology, 1094303, 2023.
  6. Engineering Secure Smart Health Software with Consent Using Personal Online Datastores Anushka Vidanage, Jessica Moore, Graham Williams Australian Data Science Network Conference, 2023 (Poster).
  7. Building Health Software on Decentralised Health Data Using Personal Online Datastores Jess Moore and Anushka Vidanage PyCon AU, 2023.
  8. Privacy Focused Health Data Storage and Access Control Through Personal Online Datastores Anushka Vidanage, Jess Moore, Sergio Rodriguez-Mendez, Graham Williams, Jason King Vocabulary Symposium, 2023.
  9. Unlocking health data for personal access and reuse Jessica C. Moore, S. Rodríguez-Méndez, Anushka Vidanage, Graham Williams Vocabulary Symposium, 2022.
  10. A Graph Matching Attack on Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Anushka Vidanage, Thilina Ranbaduge, Peter Christen, Rainer Schnell ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Ireland, 1485–1494, 2020.
  11. Efficient Pattern Mining Based Cryptanalysis for Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Anushka Vidanage, Thilina Ranbaduge, Peter Christen, Rainer Schnell IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Macau, 1698–1701, 2019.

Tutorials

  1. A Practical Introduction to Data Wallets for Privacy-First Analytics and AI Anushka Vidanage, Graham Williams, Dawei Chen, Sergio J. Rodríguez Méndez 29th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Sydney, Australia, 2025.
  2. Data Privacy: Access and Consent Management using Personal Online Datastores – a Hand's on Primer Anushka Vidanage, Jessica Moore, Graham Williams 21st Australasian Data Mining Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 2023.

Book chapters

  1. Bloom Filter based Encoding Methods Peter Christen, Thilina Ranbaduge, Rainer Schnell, Anushka Vidanage, Christian Borgs In Linking Sensitive Data, Springer, ch. 8, 193–219, 2020.
  2. Attacking and Hardening Bloom Filter Encoding Peter Christen, Thilina Ranbaduge, Rainer Schnell, Anushka Vidanage, Sirintra Vaiwsri In Linking Sensitive Data, Springer, ch. 9, 221–251, 2020.
  3. Empirical Evaluation Peter Christen, Thilina Ranbaduge, Rainer Schnell, Anushka Vidanage, Sirintra Vaiwsri In Linking Sensitive Data, Springer, ch. 12, 323–344, 2020.

Thesis

  1. Efficient Cryptanalysis Techniques for Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Anushka Vidanage PhD thesis, The Australian National University, 2022.

Preprints

  1. Learning from Anonymized and Incomplete Tabular Data Lucas Lange, Adrian Böttinger, Victor Christen, Anushka Vidanage, Peter Christen, and Erhard Rahm arXiv Preprint, 2026.