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Yi-Min Wang, Ph.D.
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Quick Bio:
I became a Deputy Managing
Director for Microsoft Research-Redmond (MSR-R) in August 2011. Together with Peter Lee and Eric Horvitz, we form the
Office of Directors (OOD) which supports all 300+ researchers and engineers
in the Lab towards the goals of Agility, Diversity, and Strategy. In November
2012, Eric and I became the Managing Co-Director of the lab when Peter expanded
his responsibility to manage all MSR US Labs.
I was previously Director
of ISRC (Internet Services
Research Center), an R&D organization dedicated to developing technologies
for Search, Ads, and Online Services. Between 2007 and 2011, ISRC had focused
on web-scale data-related technologies
including Search Quality Diagnosis and Metrics, Web-Scale Language Model,
Highly Interactive Dialog Model, Structured Data (e.g., Wolfram|Alpha
answers), and Scalable
Dynamic Crawling. Personally, I have been playing the role of Director of
Search Quality for the Bing team. I invented the Automated Relevance Diagnosis System (ARDS)
which takes hundreds of thousands of user dissatisfaction reports and performs
automated and systematic diagnosis to identify the Search component that is
responsible for causing each of the dissatisfactions. ARDS has been a critical
part of Bing team’s search quality process and is widely recognized for its
contribution to Bing’s significant quality improvement from 2008 to 2011.
Prior to the creation of
ISRC, my research work was primarily in the areas of dependable computing
and web security. I was
elected to IEEE Fellow for my contributions in those two areas. I had published
extensively on checkpointing and rollback-recovery
and was a main co-author of the most influential survey paper on that topic.
In 2005, I invented Strider HoneyMonkey - the first automated system to patrol the Web and hunt
for malicious websites that exploit zero-day vulnerabilities. The HoneyMonkey technique has become the de facto standard for
both the security industry and the search engine industry. In 2007, I invented Strider Search Ranger
– the first search-spam detection system
based on dynamic crawling and traffic analysis. The work was featured on New York Times
and has had an industry-wide impact on wiping out search-spam.
[See my full bio here.]
Managing
Co-Director, Microsoft Research-Redmond, November 2012
Deputy
Managing Director, Microsoft Research-Redmond, August 2011
IEEE
Fellow, Class
of 2010 - for contributions to
Dependable Computing and Web Security
Director, Internet
Services Research Center (ISRC), Microsoft Research-Redmond, July 2009
Director, Search
Quality & Cyber-Intelligence Lab (SQ-CIL), Internet Services Research
Center (ISRC), July 2007
Group
Manager, Cybersecurity& Systems Management (CSM)
Research Group, 2005
Group
Manager, Systems Management (SM) Research
Group, 2004
Ph.D., Electrical
and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993
B.S., Electrical
Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1986
Recent
Professional Activities
- Associate Editor
- IEEE Transactions on
Computers, 2007~2010
- Keynote Speakers
- “Security Challenges in An Increasingly
Connected World,” (Slides in PDF) IEEE International Symposium on
Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), September 28,
2009
- “Adversarial Web
Crawling with Strider Monkeys,” (Slides
in PDF) Internet Services Workshop,
November 6, 2008
- “Online Advertising: The Good, The Bad,
and The Ugly,”
(Slides in PDF)
International Symposium on
Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS),
November 17, 2006
- Program Committee
Member
- WWW 2011
- International Conference on Dependable Systems and
Networks (DSN), 2009
- International Conference on
Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2007
- Sponsored Research
Award
- Yi-Min
Wang and Pi-Yu Chung ECE Research Award Endowed Fund, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, 2008
Recent
Research Projects & Papers
- The Strider
Family of Projects and Their Internal and External Contributions
- Chao
Liu, Hung-chih Yang, Jinliang Fan, Li-Wei He, and Yi-Min Wang,
“Distributed Non-negative Matrix
Factorization for Web-Scale Dyadic Data Analysis on MapReduce,”
International World Wide Web (WWW)
Conference, April 2010
- Zhichun
Li, Ming Zhang, Zhaosheng Zhu, Yan Chen, Albert
Greenberg, and Yi-Min Wang,
“WebProphet: Automating Performance Prediction for Web
Services,” in Proc. USENIX Symposium
on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '10), April 2010.
- Fan Guo, Chao Liu, Anitha Kannan, Tom Minka, Michael Taylor, Yi-Min Wang, Christos Faloutsos,
“Click Chain Model in Web Search,” [PDF] in Proc. International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference, 2009
- Shuo Chen, Ziqing
Mao, Yi-Min Wang, Ming Zhang,
“Pretty-Bad-Proxy: An Overlooked Adversary
in Browsers’ HTTPS Deployments,” [PDF] in Proc. IEEE Symp.
on Security and Privacy (the Oakland Conference), May 2009
- Shuo Chen, Jose Meseguer, Ralf Sasse, Helen
Wang, and Yi-Min Wang
“A Systematic Approach to Uncover GUI Logic Flaws for Web Security,”
[PDF]
in Proc. IEEE Symp. on Security
and Privacy (the Oakland Conference), May 2007
- Samuel T. King, Peter M. Chen,
Yi-Min Wang,
“SubVirt: Implementing malware with virtual
machines,” [PDF] in Proc.
IEEE Symp. on Security and
Privacy (the Oakland Conference), May 2006.
Professional
Activities
- Associate
Editor
o IEEE Transactions on Computers,
2007~2010
·
Keynote
Speaker
o SRDS Opening Keynote:
Security Challenges in An Increasingly
Connected World, September 28, 2009
o Keynote at Internet
Services Workshop: Adversarial Web Crawling with Strider Monkeys, November 6,
2008
o SSS Opening Keynote: Online
Advertising: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, November 17, 2006
·
Program
Chair
o Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Autonomic
Computing (ICAC), 2005
o Program Vice-Chair,
Fault Tolerant and Dependable Computing Track, International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2005
o Program Co-Chair, The 6th Usenix
Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS), 2001
·
Program
Committee Member
o International
Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2011, 2009, 2008, 2007,
2006, 2002, 2001, 2000
o International
Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2007, 2006, 2002, 2000,
1998, 1995
o Usenix Security Symposium,
2007
o Symposium on Reliable
Distributed Systems (SRDS), 2005
o International
Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), 2004
o ACM Symposium on
Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), 2002
Things I like J:
·
Red
crabs crossing road on Christmas Island [video]
Other resources:
·
Microsoft
Bing Translator
[Under
Construction]
- Strider: Cybersecurity & Systems
Management
- Publications (see a complete list of Strider
publications here)
- Yi-Min Wang, Ming Ma, Yuan Niu, and Hao Chen, “Spam
Double-Funnel: Connecting Web Spammers with Advertisers,”
in Proc. International World Wide
Web (WWW) Conference, May 2007
- Y. Niu, Y. M. Wang, H. Chen, M. Ma, and F. Hsu,
“A
Quantitative Study of Forum Spamming Using Context-based Analysis,”
in Proc. Network and Distributed
System Security (NDSS) Symposium, Feb. 2007.
- Chad Verbowski, Emre Kıcıman, Brad
Daniels, Arunvijary Kumar, Yi-Min Wang, Roussi Roussev, Shan Lu,
Juhan Lee, “Flight
Data Recorder: Always-on Tracing and Scalable Analysis of Persistent
State Interactions to Improve Systems and Security Management,”
in Proc. Seventh
Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI),
2006
- Yi-Min Wang,
Doug Beck, Xuxian Jiang, Roussi Roussev, Chad Verbowski, Shuo Chen, and Sam King, “Automated
Web Patrol with Strider HoneyMonkeys: Finding Web Sites That Exploit
Browser Vulnerabilities,” in Proc. Network
and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium,
February 2006.
- Yi-Min Wang, Doug Beck, Binh
Vo, Roussi Roussev, and Chad Verbowski, “Detecting
Stealth Software with Strider GhostBuster,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference
on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2005.
- Helen J. Wang, John Platt, Yu Chen, Ruyun Zhang, and Yi-Min Wang, “Automatic
Misconfiguration Troubleshooting with PeerPressure,” in Proc. Sixth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
(OSDI), Dec. 2004
- Yi-Min Wang, Roussi Roussev, Chad Verbowski, Aaron Johnson, Ming-Wei Wu,
Yennun Huang, and Sy-Yen Kuo, “Gatekeeper:
Monitoring Auto-Start Extensibility Points (ASEPs) for Spyware
Management,” in Proc.
Usenix LISA, Nov. 2004
- Yi-Min Wang,
Chad Verbowski, John Dunagan, Yu Chen, Helen
J. Wang, Chun Yuan, and Zheng Zhang, “STRIDER:
A Black-box, State-based Approach to Change and Configuration Management
and Support,” in Proc.
Usenix LISA (Best Paper), pp. 159-172,
Oct. 2003.
- Yi-Min Wang, Chad Verbowski, and Daniel R.
Simon, “Persistent-state
Checkpoint Comparison for Troubleshooting Configuration Failures,”
in Proc. IEEE DSN, June 2003.
- Presentations
- “STRIDER:
A Computer Genomics Approach to Systems Management and Support,”
- “STRIDER: A New Approach to Configuration and
Security Management”
- Projects Home
Page:
- Strider Gatekeeper Spyware Management System: http://research.microsoft.com/spyware/
- Strider GhostBuster Rootkit Detection System: http://research.microsoft.com/rootkit/
- Strider HoneyMonkey Malicious-Website Detection
System: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/strider/honeymonkey/
- Strider Typo-Patrol and URL Tracer: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/strider/typo-patrol/
& http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/strider/URLTracer/
- Strider Search Ranger Spam-Page Detection
System: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/strider/SearchRanger/
Conference
committee activities
Publications
Talks
Honors
and Awards
Patents
Vita
(Research)
Vita
(Products)
Blog
Previous Research Projects and Papers
- Masquerade: "You can
encrypt, but you can't hide." Traffic patterns tell a lot about the Web sites
that you're browsing.
- Conducted a 100,000-site
experiment to show that traffic information consisting of the number of
Web objects and object sizes suffices to identify many Web sites.
- Publications
- Panorama: Distributed
topology control for wireless multi-hop ad hoc networks, based on
directional information
- Proved that "150 degrees" can be
special - it's a tight upper bound for guaranteeing global network
connectivity!
- Publications
- L. Li, J. Y. Halpern, P. Bahl, Y. M. Wang, and
R. Wattenhofer, "
Analysis of a Cone-based Distributed Topology Control Algorithm for
Wireless Multi-hop Networks," in Proc. ACM PODC,
August 2001. (Conference
presentation slides)
- R. Wattenhofer, L. Li, P. Bahl, and Y. M. Wang, "Distributed
Topology Control for Power Efficient Operation in Multihop Wireless Ad
Hoc Networks," in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, April
2001.
- Aladdin:
Dependable home networks
as an extension of the Web
- You can send secure emails to close your garage
door; you get an Instant Message when an earthquake causes a power outage
at home.
- Articles
- Seattle PI news article: "It was a fishy
way for a scientist to start wiring houses onto Web"
- MSR article: "There's no place like
home"
- Publications
- Y. M. Wang, W. Russell, and A. Arora, "
A Toolkit for Building Dependable and Extensible Home Networking
Applications," in Proc. 4th
USENIX Windows Systems Symposium, August 2000.
- Y. M. Wang, et al., "Towards
Dependable Home Networking: An Experience Report," in Proc.
IEEE DSN/FTCS, June 2000.
- Y. M. Wang, P.
Bahl, and Wilf Russell, "The
SIMBA User Alert Service Architecture for Dependable Alert Delivery,"
in Proc.
IEEE DSN, July 2001.
- A. Arora, R. Jagannathan and Y. M. Wang, "Model-based
Design of Dependability in Distributed Systems", in Workshop
on Concurrency in Dependable Computing, Newcastle, England 2001.
- A. Arora, R. Jagannathan
and Y. M. Wang, "Model-based
Fault Detection in Powerline Networking", in Proc.
International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS),
2002.
- High-level system architecture
- Conference presentation slides
- MobiSys 2003 Panel Presentation Slide Deck
- IEEE ISORC 2005 Panel Presentation Slide Deck
- Millennium Falcon: Fast DCOM over
SAN (System Area Network)
Other Links
·
Yi-Min
Wang (王逸民)
·
MSR
ISRC
·
MSR-ISRCCrawler
·
Prime
Card Restaurants, Prime
Card Restaurants Review
·
Overparenting
(or direct link: Overparenting)
·
Project
2020 (http://project2020.wikispaces.com/)
·
Mathematical
Food for Thought (or direct link: Mathematical
Food for Thought)
·
Gaming
and Art
·
Advanced
Troubleshooting for Windows
·
DSATs
Other Recent Papers
- P. E. Chung, Y. Huang, S. Yajnik,
D. Liang, J. C. Shih, C.-Y. Wang, and Y. M. Wang, "
DCOM and CORBA Side by Side, Step By Step, and Layer by Layer,"
in C++ Report, Jan. 1998.
- Y. M. Wang and Woei-Jyh Lee, "
COMERA: COM Extensible Remoting Architecture," in Proc.
COOTS, April 1998.
- J. Tsai, S.-Y.
Kuo, and Y. M. Wang, "
Theoretical Analysis for Communication-Induced Checkpointing Protocols
with Rollback-Dependency Trackability,
IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Oct. 1998.
- Y. M. Wang and
P.-Y. E. Chung, "
Exploring Customization of Distributed Systems using COM,"
IEEE Concurrency Magazine, July-Sep. 1998.
