First, I will review some of my work on theory and systems for efficiently verifying cloud storage queries as well as more expressive queries including conjunctive and disjunctive keyword search, SQL, range search and geometric processing queries, usually appearing in information retrieval and data streaming applications.
Second, I will highlight some of my recent work on cloud privacy concerning efficient and parallel searching of dynamic encrypted data and will finally talk about a private cloud-based email system (Pmail) with searching capabilities that we are developing at Maryland.