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Yi-Min Wang, Ph.D.
Director Internet Services Research Center
(ISRC) Microsoft
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Quick Bio:
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.
Since 2007, I have been focusing on Search and playing
the role of Director of Search Quality for the Bing team. I invented the Automated Relevance Diagnosis System (ARDS) which takes a user
dissatisfaction report and performs automated and systematic diagnosis to
identify the Search component that is responsible for causing the
dissatisfaction. 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 for the past 18 months. I run the ISRC
– Internet Services Research Center where we do world-class basic research (see
publications below) targeting long-term impact, as well as high-value applied research
with medium-term impact and advanced development with short-term deliverables. See my full bio here or here.
IEEE
Fellow, Class
of 2010 - for contributions to
Dependable Computing and Web Security
Director, Internet
Services Research Center (ISRC), Microsoft Research Redmond
Director, Search
Quality & Cyber-Intelligence Lab (SQ-CIL), Internet Services Research
Center (ISRC)
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,
2007~2009
- 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
- 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,” 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,” 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,”
in Proc. IEEE Symp. on Security and
Privacy (the
- Samuel T. King, Peter M. Chen, Yi-Min Wang,
- 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.
- Yi-Min Wang,
- Helen J. Wang,
- Presentations
- “STRIDER: A Computer
Genomics Approach to Systems Management and Support,”
- Invited Talk, Stanford University, May 6, 2003.
- “STRIDER: A New Approach to Configuration and Security
Management”
- Invited Talk, UC Berkeley, Oct. 28, 2004
- Invited
- 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/
Professional
Activities
- Associate Editor
- IEEE
Transactions on Computers, 2007~2009
- Keynote Speakers
- “Security Challenges in
An Increasingly Connected World,” IEEE
International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), September 28, 2009
- “Adversarial Web Crawling
with Strider Monkeys,” Microsoft
Research Asia · Tsinghua University Workshop on Internet Services and
Cloud Computing, November 2008
- “Online Advertising: The
Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”, International
Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems
(SSS), 2006
- Program Chair
- Program Co-Chair, International
Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), 2005
- Program Vice-Chair, Fault Tolerant and Dependable
Computing Track, International Conference on
Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2005
- Program Co-Chair, The 6th Usenix Conference on
Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS), 2001
- Program Committee
Member
- International
Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2009, 2008, 2007,
2006, 2002, 2001, 2000
- International
Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2007, 2006, 2002,
2000, 1998, 1995
- Usenix Security Symposium, 2007
- Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 2005
- International
Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), 2004
- ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed
Computing (PODC), 2002
Conference committee activities
Publications
Talks
Honors and Awards
Patents
Vita
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
- Qixiang Sun, Daniel R. Simon,
- 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)
- Optimizations at all layers:
marshaling, runtime, and transport
- Performance numbers
- 72-microsecond DCOM round-trip latency
- 86.1 megabytes/second DCOM application bandwidth
- 174-microsecond MTS round-trip latency
- Publication
- A. Forin, G. Hunt, L. Li, and
Y. M. Wang, "
High-Performance Distributed Objects over System Area Networks,"
in Proc. 3rd USENIX Windows NT Symp., pp. 21-30, July 1999.
Other
Links
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Yi-Min
Wang
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MSR-ISRCCrawler
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WishUponAHero
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WUAH resources (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/WUAH/)
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Overparenting
(or direct link: Overparenting or an alternative doorway: Overparenting)
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Project
2020 (http://project2020.wikispaces.com/)
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Mathematical
Food for Thought (or direct link: Mathematical
Food for Thought)
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Gaming and
Art
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Advanced
Troubleshooting for Windows
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DSATs
Other Recent Papers
·
E. N. Elnozahy, L.
Alvisi, Y. M. Wang , and D. B. Johnson, A Survey of Rollback-Recovery Protocols in Message-passing
Systems,” ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 34, Issue 3, pp.
375 – 408, Sept. 2002.
- 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.
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