Yinzhi Cao

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60201-3150, USA

Office#: 847-467-6341
E-mail: yinzhi DOT cao AT eecs DOT northwestern DOT edu

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Education

Ph.D.		Computer Science		Northwestern University		09/2008 - Present		Advisor: Prof. Yan Chen
B.S.		Electroncis Engineering		Tsinghua University		09/2004 - 06/2008

Research Interests

Web Security
Network Measurement, Management and Reliability

Publications

Yinzhi Cao, Zhichun Li, Vaibhav Rastogi, Yan Chen, Xitao Wen, Virtual Browser: a Virtualized Browser to Sandbox Third-party JavaScripts with Enhanced Security , in the Proc. of ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2012 (35/159=22%, full paper).
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Yinzhi Cao, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phil Porras, Yan Chen, PathCutter: Severing the Self-Propagation Path of XSS JavaScript Worms in Social Web Networks, in the Proc. of 19th Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2012 (46/258=17.8%).
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Yinzhi Cao, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phil Porras, Yan Chen, POSTER: A Path-cutting Approach to Blocking XSS Worms in Social Web Networks, poster paper in ACM CCS 2011,

Yao Zhao, Yinzhi Cao, Anup Goyal, Yan Chen, and Ming Zhang, Rake: Semantics Assisted Network-based Tracing Framework, in the Proc. of IEEE/ACM IWQoS, 2011 (23/80=28.8%).
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Zhichun Li, Yi Tang, Yinzhi Cao, Vaibhav Rastogi, Yan Chen, Bin Liu, Clint Sbisa, WebShield: Enabling Various Web Defense Techniques without Client Side Modifications, in the Proc. of 18th Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2011 (28/139=20%).
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Yinzhi Cao, Zhichun Li, Vaibhav Rastogi, Yan Chen, Virtual Browser: a Web-Level Sandbox to Protect Third-Party JavaScript without Sacricing Functionality, poster paper in the Proc. of ACM CCS 2010,

Professional Services

External Reviewer

NDSS 2010/2011

IEEE INFOCOM 2009/2010/2011/2012

IEEE ICDCS 2011

IEEE DSN 2010

IEEE IWQoS 2010

Volunteer

CCS 2009/2010/2011

Internship

May, 2011 to Aug, 2011

SRI International, Menlo Park, CA

Mentor: Phillip Porras and Vinod Yegneswaran

Collaborator

Teaching

Fall, 2010		Teaching Assistant, Engineering Analysis-I, EECS Department, Northwestern University
Fall, 2011		Teaching Assistant, EECS 354 - Network Penetration and Security, EECS Department, Northwestern University
Winter, 2012		Teaching Assistant, EECS 211 - Object-Oriented Programming in C++, EECS Department, Northwestern University	Slides for Linked List

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