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Biography
I am a Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, working with Prof. Yan Chen. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary in Dec. 2015 under the supervision of Prof. Haining Wang.
[Update] Starting from August 2018, I will join the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences at New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor.
Research Interests
My research focuses on the intersection of Security, Privacy, and Data Analytics. Much of my work aims to secure Internet-scale systems from cyber attacks and protect user privacy and security due to emerging technologies, from a data-driven perspective. My recent and on-going work includes:
- E-crime Investigation and Online Fraud Detection,
- User Privacy Risk Assessment of Emerging Technologies,
- Vulnerability Analysis of IoT (Internet of Things) Devices,
- Malware Detection and Forensic Analysis.
Research Experience
- Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, Dec. 2016 - Apr. 2018
- Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University, Jan. 2016 - Nov. 2016
- Research Intern at Alibaba Group, July 2015 - Nov. 2015
- Research Associate at University of Delaware, Sep. 2014 - June 2015
- Research/Teaching Assistant at College of William and Mary,
Aug. 2010 -
Aug. 2014
Teaching and Mentoring Experience
- Team leader of the DARPA Transparent Computing project at Northwestern University since Jan. 2016
- Co-Instructor, EECS 450 Internet Security, Northwestern University, Fall 2016
- Teaching Assistant, CS 141 Computational Problem Solving in Python, College of William and Mary, Spring 2011
- Teaching Assistant, CS301 Software Development, College of William and Mary, Fall 2010
Publications
- Detecting and Characterizing Web Bot Traffic in a Large E-commerce Marketplace,
Haitao Xu, Zhao Li, Chen Chu, Yuanmi Chen, Yifan Yang, Haifeng Lu, Haining Wang, and Angelos Stavrou,
To appear in Proceedings of the 23rd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS'18),
Barcelona, Spain, Sep. 2018. (Acceptance Rate: 19.8%, 56/283).
- Privacy Risk Assessment on Email Tracking,
Haitao Xu (co-first) , Shuai Hao (co-first), Alparslan Sari, and Haining Wang,
In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'18),
Honolulu, HI, USA, April 2018. (Acceptance Rate: 19.2%, 309/1606).
- An Investigation into Android In-App Ad Practice: Implications for App Developers,
Boyuan He, Haitao Xu, Ling Jin, Guanyu Guo, Yan Chen, and Guangyao Weng,
In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'18),
Honolulu, HI, USA, April 2018. (Acceptance Rate: 19.2%, 309/1606).
- Internet Protocol Cameras with No Password Protection: An Empirical Investigation,
Haitao Xu, Fengyuan Xu, and Bo Chen,
In Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM'18),
Berlin, Germany, March 2018.
- An Empirical Investigation of Ecommerce-Reputation-Escalation-as-a-Service,
Haitao Xu, Daiping Liu, Haining Wang, and Angelos Stavrou,
In ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB'17),
Fast-track, Volume 11 Issue 2, May 2017.
- Privacy Risk Assessment on Online Photos,
Haitao Xu, Haining Wang, and Angelos Stavrou,
In Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID'15),
Kyoto, Japan, Nov. 2015. (Acceptance Rate: 23.5%, 28/119).
- E-commerce Reputation Manipulation: The Emergence of Reputation-Escalation-as-a-Service (Best Paper Award Nomination),
Haitao Xu, Daiping Liu, Haining Wang, and Angelos Stavrou,
In Proceedings of the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'15),
Florence, Italy, May 2015. (Acceptance Rate: 14.1%, 131/929).
- Media, etc.: WSJ, Forbes, ChinaDaily, theaustralian, W&M
- Click Fraud Detection on the Advertiser Side,
Haitao Xu, Daiping Liu, Aaron Koehl, Haining Wang, and Angelos Stavrou,
In Proceedings of the 19th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS'14),
Wroclaw, Poland, Sep. 2014. (Acceptance Rate: 24.8%, 58/234).
Honors & Awards
- Best Paper Award Nomination, International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2015
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International Student Opportunity Scholarship, College of William and Mary, 2015
- Honor Student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2010
- Outstanding Graduates, Zhengzhou University (ranked top 2%), 2007
Invited Talks
- "E-commerce Reputation Manipulation: The Emergence of Reputation-Escalation-as-a-Service", Alibaba Group, Hangzhou, April 26, 2015.
Professional Activities
External Conference Reviewer- ACM CCS '17, '16; IEEE S&P '15; IEEE INFOCOM '16, '15; IEEE/IFIP DSN '16, '15, '14; SECURECOMM '16, '15
- ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC); IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS); Computer Networks; Computers & Security