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 August 2006.  She received Ph.D from Carnegie Mellon University, with thesis work on network forensics and anomaly detection.  Her general research interests are in network security, privacy, distributed systems, and networking.

Currently, Yinglian is working on the S-GPS project of detecting large-scale spamming botnets, and the AFP project of automatically fingerprinting program executions from mass event logs.

Research

PhD thesis:

• A Spatiotemporal Event Correlation Approach to Computer Security

Yinglian Xie, Doctoral Thesis, Technical Report CMU-CS-05-175, Carnegie Mellon University, August 2005.

Conference/Workshop Papers:

• Spamming Botnet: Signatures and Characteristics

  Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Kannan Achan, Rina Panigrahy, Geoff Hulten, and Ivan Osipkov

  To appear in ACM SIGCOMM 2008, Seattle, WA, August 17-22, 2008

• How Dynamic are IP Addresses?

  Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Kannan Achan, Eliot Gillum, Moises Goldszmidt, and Ted Wobber

  In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2007, Kyoto, Japan, August 27-31, 2007

• End-to-End Web Application Security

  Úlfar Erlingsson, Benjamin Livshits, and Yinglian Xie

  In Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS'07), San Diego, CA, May 2007.

• Less is More: Compact Matrix Decomposition for Large Sparse Graphs(Best research paper award!)

  Jimeng Sun, Yinglian Xie, Hui Zhang, Christos Faloutsos

  In the 2007 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Minneapolis, MN, Apr 2007.

• Protecting Privacy in Key-Value Search Systems

  Yinglian Xie, David O'Hallaron, Mike Reiter

  In the 2006 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 06), Miami Beach, FL, Dec 2006.

  An earlier version of this paper is available as Technical Report CMU-CS-03-158.

• Forensic Analysis for Epidemic Attacks in Federated Networks

  Yinglian Xie, Vyas Sekar, Mike Reiter, Hui Zhang

  In the 14th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 06), Santa Barbara, CA, Nov 2006.

• Virtual Disk based Centralized Management for Enterprise Networks

  Yuezhi Zhou, Yaoxue Zhang, Yinglian Xie

  To appear in ACM Sigcomm Workshop on Internet Network Managment (INM 06), Pisa, Italy, Sep 2006.

• A Multi-Resolution Approach For Worm Detection and Containment

  Vyas Sekar, Yinglian Xie, David Maltz, Michael Reiter, Hui Zhang

  In IEEE/IFIP DSN 2006, Philadelphia, PA, June 2006.

• Worm Origin Identification Using Random Moonwalks

Yinglian Xie, Vyas Sekar, David Maltz, Michael Reiter, Hui Zhang

In Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, CA, May 2005.

• Toward a Framework For Internet Forensic Analysis

Vyas Sekar, Yinglian Xie, David Maltz, Michael Reiter, Hui Zhang

In Proc. of the ACM SIGCOMM Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets) 2004.

• Seurat: A Pointillist Approach to Anomaly Detection

Yinglian Xie, Hyang-Ah Kim, David O'Hallaron, Michael K. Reiter, Hui Zhang

In Proc. of The Seventh International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), September 2004

An extended version of this paper is available as Technical Report CMU-CS-06-118.

• A Secure Distributed Search System

Yinglian Xie, David O'Hallaron, Michael K. Reiter

In Proc. of The Eleventh IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) 2002.

• Locality in Search Engine Queries and Its Implications for Caching

 

Yinglian Xie, David O'Hallaron

In Proc. of the Infocom 2002

An earlier version of this paper is available as Technical Report CMU-CS-01-128.

• Early Measurements of a Cluster-based Architecture for P2P Systems

Balachander Krishnamurthy, Jia Wang, Yinglian Xie

In Proc. of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop, 2001.

• A Secure, Publisher-Centric Web Caching Infrasture

Andy Myers, John Chuang, Urs Hengartner, Yinglian Xie, Weiqiang Zhuang, Hui Zhang

In Proc. of the Infocom, 2001.

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