Causality reasoning about network events for detecting stealthy malware activities1
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Hao Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Virginia Tech in 2015. He was a member of the Human-Centric Security Laboratory directed by Professor Danfeng Yao. He received his M.S. degree in Computer Science from Villanova University, PA in 2010. He holds a U.S. patent on his network anomaly detection technology. His current research interest is on designing machine learning methods for network and mobile security.
Danfeng (Daphne) Yao is an associate professor and L-3 Faculty Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. She received her Computer Science Ph.D. degree from Brown University in 2007. She received the NSF CAREER Award in 2010 for her work on human-behavior driven malware detection, and most recently ARO Young Investigator Award for her semantic reasoning for mission-oriented security work in 2014. She received the Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award from Virginia Tech College of Engineering in 2012. Dr. Yao has several Best Paper Awards (e.g., ICICS ‘06, CollaborateCom ‘09, and ICNP ‘12) and Best Poster Awards (e.g., ACM CODASPY ‘15). She was given the Award for Technological Innovation from Brown University in 2006. She held a U.S. patent for her anomaly detection technologies. Dr. Yao is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). She serves as PC members in numerous computer security conferences, including ACM CCS. She has over 65 peer-reviewed publications in major security and privacy conferences and journals.
Naren Ramakrishnan is the Thomas L. Phillips Professor of Engineering at Virginia Tech. He directs the Discovery Analytics Center, a university-wide effort that brings together researchers from computer science, statistics, mathematics, and electrical and computer engineering to tackle knowledge discovery problems in important areas of national interest, including intelligence analysis, sustainability, and electronic medical records. He received his PhD in computer sciences from Purdue University.
Zhibin Zhang is an associate professor at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007. His research interests lie in the area of network measurement and security, traffic classification, distributed system and machine learning.
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The preliminary version of this work appeared in the Proceedings of the 9th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Kyoto, Japan, June 2014 (Zhang et al., 2012) and in the Proceedings of 33th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW), San Francisco, CA, May 2012 (Zhang et al, 2012, Zhang et al, 2014). This work was supported in part by an NSF grant CAREER CNS-0953638, ARO YIP W911NF-14-1-0535, and L-3 communications.