Yinglian Xie
Researcher
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
1065 La Avenida
Mountain View, CA 94043
Email:yxie at microsoft dot com
Tel. + 1 650.693.1999
Yinglian joined Microsoft Research Silicon Valley in 2006. She received Ph.D from Carnegie Mellon University, with thesis work on network forensics and anomaly detection. Her general research interests are in security, privacy, distributed systems, and networking. Her recent work focuses on improving online service security.
Links: | All publications | Projets on Internet service security |
Professional Services
- Program Committee, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2013
- Program Committee, ICDCS 2013
- Program Committee, NDSS 2013
- Program Committee, ICNP 2012
- Program Committee, AsiaCCS 2012
- Program Committee, DFRWS 2012
- Program Committee, LEET 2011
- Program Committee, Usenix Security 2011
- Program Committee, Sigcomm 2011
- Program Committee, NDSS 2011
- Program Committee, Sigcomm 2010
- Program Committee, LEET 2010
- Program Committee, PAM 2010
- Program Committee, Usenix Annual Techincal Conference 2009
- Program Committee, SecureComm 2009
Recent Publications
- Zhou Li, Sumayah Alrwais, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, and Xiaofeng Wang, Finding the Linchpins of the Dark Web: a Study on Topologically Dedicated Hosts on Malicious Web Infrastructures, in IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2013, to appear, IEEE, 19 May 2013
- Junxian Huang, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Qifa Ke, Martin Abadi, Eliot Gillum, and Z. Morley Mao, SocialWatch: Detection of Online Service Abuse via Large-Scale Social Graphs, in 8th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), to appear, ACM, 7 May 2013
- Martín Abadi, Andrew Birrell, Ilya Mironov, Ted Wobber, and Yinglian Xie, Global Authentication in an Untrustworthy World, in 14th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XIV), USENIX Association, May 2013
- Junjie Zhang, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, David Soukal, and Wenke Lee, Intention and Origination: An Inside Look at Large-Scale Bot Queries, in the 20th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2013, to appear, Internet Society, 26 February 2013
- Junxian Huang, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Qifa Ke, Martin Abadi, Eliot Gillum, and Z. Morley Mao, SocialWatch: Detection of Online Service Abuse via Large-Scale Social Graphs, no. MSR-TR-2013-24, 20 February 2013
- Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Qifa Ke, Martin Abadi, Eliot Gillum, Krish Vitaldevaria, Jason Walter, Junxian Huang, and Z. Morley Mao, Innocent by Association: Early Recognition of Legitimate Users, in ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM, October 2012
- Zhou Li, Kehuan Zhang, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, and Xiaofeng Wang, Knowing Your Enemy: Understanding and Detecting Malicious Web Advertising, in ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM, October 2012
- Chi-Yao Hong, Fang Yu, and Yinglian Xie, Populated IP Addresses: Classification and Applications, in ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM, October 2012
- Zhiyun Qian, Z. Morley Mao, and Yinglian Xie, Collaborative TCP Sequence Number Inference Attack: How to Crack Sequence Number Under A Second, in ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM, October 2012
- Ting-Fang Yen, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Roger Peng Yu, and Martin Abadi, Host Fingerprinting and Tracking on the Web:Privacy and Security Implications, in The 19th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2012, Internet Society, February 2012
- Rina Panigrahy, Marc Najork, and Yinglian Xie, How User Behavior is Related to Social Affinity, in 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), ACM, February 2012
- John P John, Fang Yu, Yinglian Xie, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Martin Abadi, deSEO: Combating Search-Result Poisoning, in Usenix Security Symposium, USENIX, August 2011
- Ding Yuan, Yinglian Xie, Rina Panigrahy, Junfeng Yang, Chad Verbowski, and Arunvijay Kumar, Context-based Online Configuration-Error Detection, in The 2011 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX, June 2011
- Qifa Ke, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Yinglian Xie, Yuan Yu, Jingyue Wu, and Junfeng Yang, Optimizing Data Partitioning for Data-Parallel Computing, in Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XIII), USENIX, May 2011
- John P. John, Fang Yu, Yinglian Xie, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Martin Abadi, Heat-seeking Honeypots: Design and Experience, WWW 2011, March 2011
- Andreas Pitsillidis, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Martin Abadi, Geofferey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage, How to Tell an Airport from a Home: Techniques and Applications, in HotNets 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., October 2010
- John P. John, Fang Yu, Yinglian Xie, Martin Abadi, and Arvind Krishnamurthy, Searching the Searchers with SearchAudit, in USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX, August 2010
- Feng Qian, Abhinav Pathak, Y. Charlie Hu, Z. Morley Mao, and Yinglian Xie, A Case for Unsupervised-Learning-based Spam Filtering (Extended Abstract), in SIGMETRICS 2010, June 2010
- Zhiyun Qian, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Yinglian Xie, and Fang Yu, Investigation of Triangular Spamming: a Stealthy and Efficient Spamming Technique , in IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) 2010, May 2010
- Fang Yu, Yinglian Xie, and Qifa Ke, SBotMiner: Large Scale Search Bot Detection, in ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), February 2010
- Zhiyun Qian, Zhuoqing Mao, Yinglian Xie, and Fang Yu, On Network-level Clusters for Spam Detection, in The 17th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2010, February 2010
- Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, and Martin Abadi, De-anonymizing the Internet Using Unreliable IDs, in ACM SIGCOMM, August 2009
- Yao Zhao, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Qifa Ke, Yuan Yu, Yan Chen, and Eliot Gillum, BotGraph: Large Scale Spamming Botnet Detection, in The 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '09), USENIX, April 2009
- Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Kannan Achan, Rina Panigrahy, Geoff Hulten, and Ivan Osipkov, Spamming Botnet: Signatures and Characteristics, in ACM SIGCOMM 2008, Seattle, WA, August 2008
- Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Kannan Achan, Eliot Gillum, Moisés Goldszmidt, and Ted Wobber, How Dynamic are IP Addresses, in Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Kyoto, Japan, August 2007
