Hongyu Gao
CV

Office#: 847-467-5343
Mailing Address: 2145 Sheridan Road, Tech L359, Evanston, IL 60208-3118
E-mail: hygao AT u.northwestern.edu

Greetings. Welcome to Hongyu's Homepage!
I am now a Ph.D. candidate working on computer systems. I am studying the problems related to online social networks, and spam (and spam in online social networks, of course).
I received my B.S. degree from School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science of Peking University in 2008. After that, I moved to Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science of Northwestern University
If everything goes well, I will be kicked out of school with my doctor's degree in 2013.

Still trying to think up something...

Ph.D.		Computer Science		Northwestern University		06/2013(Expected)		Advisor: Prof. Yan Chen
B.S.		Computer Science		Peking University		07/2008

Towards Online Spam Filtering in Social Networks
Hongyu Gao, Yan Chen, Kathy Lee, Diana Palsetia, Alok Choudhary
To appear in NDSS 2012, San Diego, California, February 2012.
Security Issues in Online Social Networks
Hongyu Gao, Jun Hu, Tuo Huang, Jingnan Wang, Yan Chen
IEEE Internet Computing. Vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 56-63. July 2011.
Detecting and Characterizing Social Spam Campaigns
Hongyu Gao, Jun Hu, Christo Wilson, Zhichun Li, Yan Chen, Ben Y. Zhao
In Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Internet measurement (IMC10), Melbourne, Australia, November, 2010.
NetShield: Massive Semantics-based Vulnerability Signature Matching for High-speed Networks
Zhichun Li, Gao Xia, Hongyu Gao, Yi Tang, Yan Chen, Bin Liu, Junchen Jiang, Yuezhou Lv
ACM SIGCOMM 2010, New Delhi, India, August 2010

Ultrapac, a parser generator for highly efficient network protocol parsers. Released together with NetShield.

Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2010/2011/2012

IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2010/2011/2012

IEEE ICDCS 2011

IEEE DSN 2010

IEEE IWQos 2010

ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2010/2011/2012

Winter, 2012	Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Computer Networking, EECS Department, Northwestern University	Recitation 1 slides	Recitation 2 slides	Recitation 3 slides
Fall, 2011	Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Database Systems, EECS Department, Northwestern University
Winter, 2010	Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Computer Programming, EECS Department, Northwestern University