Graduate Student Northwestern Lab for Internet and Security Technology (LIST) Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,  Northwestern University Office: Ford 2-205 Phone: 847-467-5343 Email: Mail:   Tech Inst. Room L359, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-3118

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Welcome to my home page. I am a PhD candidate under the advisement of Prof. Yan Chen. Before joining Northwestern University, I completed my B.S. in the Department of Physics and my M.S. in the Department of Computer Science & Technology at the Tsinghua University of China. 

News

• I am graduating this year! Here is my job application.
• I spent the summer of 2008 to study performance bottleneck diagnosis of cloud services with Ming Zhang, Albert Greenberg and Yi-min Wang at Microsoft Research.
• I spent the summer of 2006 to study network situational awareness with Vern Paxson at ICIR.

Research interests

• Network Security
• Network Measurement and Diagnosis
• Distributed System Measurement and Diagnosis

Publications - (Click here for full publications)

• Automating Analysis of Large-Scale Botnet Probing Events (ASIACCS 2009)


• Network-based and Attack-resilient Length Signature Generation for Zero-day Polymorphic Worms (IEEE ICNP 2007)


• Hamsa: Fast Signature Generation for Zero-day Polymorphic Worms with Provable Attack Resilience (IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2006)


• Towards Scalable and Robust Distributed Intrusion Alert Fusion with Good Load Balancing (ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Large-Scale Attack Defense 2006)


• Reversible sketches: Enabling monitoring and analysis over high-speed data streams (IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking)


• Reverse Hashing for High-speed Network Monitoring: Algorithms, Evaluation, and Applications (IEEE INFOCOM2006)


• A DoS Resilient Flow-level Intrusion Detection Approach for High-speed Networks (ICDCS 2006)


• Linuxflow: A High Speed Backbone Measurement Facility, Passive and Active Measurement Workshop (PAM2003)

Software

• Hamsa polymorphic worm signature generator


• Reversible Sketch Code


• Linuxflow (include LPF and LFD)

Teaching

• Winter 2005, CS 395/495 - Introduction to Computer Security (Instructor: Professor Yan Chen)
• Spring 2007, EECS 328 - Numerical Methods for Engineers (Instructor: Professor Jorge Nocedal)
  
  

Links

• Curriculum Vitae
• Some homepages of my friends