Yabing Liu [刘亚冰] College of Computer and Information Science Northeastern University 202 West Village H 360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 Office: 266 West Village H Email: ybliu (at) ccs (dot) neu (dot) edu

Bio

I'm seeking a full-time position in the area of large-scale data analysis, online social networks, user privacy and security, and network measurement.

I recently defended my Ph.D. in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University. My advisor is Alan Mislove. I received my M.S degree in Control Technology and Control Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I did my undergraduate studies in the College of Information Science and Technology at Donghua University, Shanghai, China.

My research interests broadly lie in the area of large-scale data analysis, data mining, especially in online social networks, as well as development of network measurement tools towards understanding and improving user privacy and security.

Updates

• 07/29/16  Our paper on measuring the invalid SSL certificates was accepted at IMC 2016!
• 07/25/15  Our paper on identifying Personal Information in network traffic was accepted at COSN 2015!
• 07/21/15  Our paper on measuring today's SSL certificate revocation was accepted at IMC 2015!
• 10/01/14  Our COSN paper was selected to receive the Community Contribution Award!
• 07/28/14  Our paper on measurement and analysis of OSN ad auctions was accepted at COSN 2014!
• 07/10/14  Our SOUP paper was selected to receive the Distinguished Paper Award!
• 05/05/14  Our paper on social access control lists was accepted at SOUPS 2014!
• 03/10/14  Our paper on studying the long-term evolution of Twitter ecosystem was accepted to ICWSM 2014!
• 02/26/12  The camera-ready version of our WWW demo paper is now available.
• 02/24/12  To learn more about friendlists and Friendlist Manager, please visit Friendlist Manager webpage.
• 02/24/12  Check out our Friendlist Manager application.
• 02/01/12  Our Friendlist Manager application was accepted as a demo at WWW 2012!
• 07/22/11  Our paper on analyzing user privacy expectations on Facebook was accepted to IMC 2011!

Publications

Google Scholar Profile
• Measuring and Applying Invalid SSL Certificates: The Silent Majority
  Taejoong Chung, Yabing Liu, David Choffnes, Dave Levin, Bruce M. Maggs, Alan Mislove, and Christo Wilson.
  In Proceedings of ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'16), Santa Monica, CA, USA, Nov 2016.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]

• Identifying Personal Information in Internet Traffic
  Yabing Liu, Han Hee Song, Ignacio Bermudez, Alan Mislove, Mario Baldi, and Alok Tongaonkar.
  In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN'15), Palo Alto, CA, November 2015.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)]

• An End-to-End Measurement of Certificate Revocation in the Web's PKI
  Yabing Liu, Will Tome, Liang Zhang, David Choffnes, Dave Levin, Bruce Maggs, Alan Mislove, Aaron Schulman, and Christo Wilson.
  In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'15), Tokyo, Japan, October 2015.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)] [Project Link]

• Measurement and Analysis of OSN Ad Auctions   Community Contribution Award
  Yabing Liu, Chloe Kliman-Silver, Robert Bell, Balachander Krishnamurthy, and Alan Mislove.
  In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN'14), Dublin, Ireland, October 2014.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)] [Measurement Data]

• Beyond CPM and CPC: Determining the Value of Users on OSNs
  Diego Saez-Trumper, Yabing Liu, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Balachander Krishnamurthy, and Alan Mislove.
  In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN'14), Dublin, Ireland, October 2014.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]

• Understanding and Specifying Social Access Control Lists   Distinguished Paper Award
  Mainack Mondal, Yabing Liu, Bimal Viswanath, Krishna Gummadi, and Alan Mislove
  In Proceedings of the 10th Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS'14), Menlo Park, CA, July 2014.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]

• The Tweets They are a-Changin': Evolution of Twitter Users and Behavior
  Yabing Liu, Chloe Kliman-Silver, and Alan Mislove
  In Proceedings of the 8th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'14), Ann Arbor, MI, June 2014.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)] [Measurement Data]

• Simplifying Friendlist Management (Demo Paper)
  Yabing Liu, Bimal Viswanath, Mainack Mondal, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Alan Mislove.
  In Proceedings of the 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'12), Lyon, France, April 2012.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)] [Project Link]

• Analyzing Facebook privacy settings: User expectations vs. reality
  Yabing Liu, Krishna P. Gummadi, Balanchander Krishnamurthy, and Alan Mislove.
  In Proceedings of the 11th ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'11), Berlin, Germany, November 2011.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)]

Posters

• Measuring the leakage of PII from web sites and apps
  Yabing Liu, Alan Mislove, Ignacio Bermudez, Han Hee Song, Alok Tongaonkar and Mario Baldi.
  Narus Workshop, Sunnyvale, CA, May 2014.
  [PDF]
• Simplifying Friendlist Management on Facebook
  Yabing Liu, Bimal Viswanath, Mainack Mondal, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Alan Mislove.
  WWW'12, Lyon, France, April 2012.
  [PDF]

Teaching Assistant

• 12S - CS3600 - Systems and Networks
• 11F - CS1800 - Discrete Structures

Courses

• 12F - CS7400 - Principles of Programming Languages
• 12F - CS8982 - Reading Course
• 12S - CS7805 - Theory of Computation
• 12S - CS8982 - Reading Course
• 11F - CS6800 - Applications of Information Theory
  
• 11F - CS5010 - Program Design Paradigms
  
• 11S - CS7600 - Intensive Computer Systems
  
• 11S - CS8982 - Reading Course: Complex Networks & Applications
  
• 10F - CS7800 - Advanced Algorithms
  
• 10F - CS5700 - Fundamentals of Computer Networks