Xin Hu

Contact

Address

2260 Hayward Avenue
Room 4944 Computer Science Division
Department of EECS
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2121

Phone +1 734-717-5947

E-mail huxin@eecs.umich.edu

Research Interests

My general research interests include computer networks, network security and sensor network. In particular I am interested in understanding various security issues such as software exploits, spam, system intrusion, malware propagation, etc and designing techniques to improve system security and help detection/prevention of such attacks. Much of my recent work emphasize on analyzing spam and botnet behaviors, collecting empirical data and developing accurate detection techniques for spam emails and various bots.

Current Work

I am working on Self-Securing Services for Handset Security project and looking into the problem of securing handheld devices especially smart phones against the emerging worms and viruses. As smart phones are often constrained by limited processing power and storage space, we are investigating the behavioral detection and adaptive containment techniques to achieve efficient malware prevention.

My current research also focuses on understanding the root causes of spams and developing approaches to stemming its growing abuse. We are conducting research on identifying sources of spams (e.g., botnet, dynamic IPs and hijacked prefixes) and developing fine-grained classification of botnet’s spam patterns to facilitate the design of future anti-spam approaches

Publications

Attack-Tolerant Distributed Sensing for Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks
Alexander W. Min, Kang G. Shin and Xin Hu
To appear in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2009), 2009. (Acceptance rate: 36/197=18.3%)

Large-Scale Malware Indexing Using Function-Call Graphs (PDF) (PDF Extended Version)
Xin Hu, Tzi-cker Chiueh, Kang G. Shin
To appear in Proc. of 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'09), 2009

Automatic Generation of String Signatures for Malware Detection (PDF Extended Version)
Kent Griffin, Scott Schneider, Xin Hu, Tzi-cker Chiueh
Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID'09), 2009

RB-Seeker: Auto-detection of Redirection Botnets (PDF) (Slides)
Xin Hu, Matt Knysz, Kang G. Shin
Proceedings of 16th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'09) 2009 (Acceptance ratio:11.7% = 20/171)

Containment of Network Worms via Per-Process Rate-Limiting   (PDF)     
Yuanyuan Zeng, Xin Hu, Abhijit Bose, Haixiong Wang, Kang G. Shin
Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureCom? '08) 2008 (full paper, Acceptance ratio: 21.1% = 26/123)

Behavioral Detection of Malware on Mobile Handsets (PDF)    
Abhijit Bose, Xin Hu, Kang G. Shin, Taejoon Park
Proceedings of ACM/Usenix Mobisys 2008 (Acceptance ratio: 17.9% = 22/123)

Attack-Tolerant Time-Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks (PDF)     
Xin Hu, Taejoon Park, Kang G. Shin
Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2008  (Acceptance ratio: 20.5% = 236/1152)

Wide-Area IP Network Mobility (PDF)      
Xin Hu, Li Li, Z. Morley Mao, Yang Richard Yang 
Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2008. (Acceptance ratio: 20.5% = 236/1152)  

Accurate Real-time Identification of IP Prefix Hijacking (PDF)     
Xin Hu and Z. Morley Mao
Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland'07) 2007 (full paper, Acceptance ratio: 8.1% = 20/246)

Honors and Awards

1. First place in Windows CE Shared Source Contest, a national competition sponsored by Microsoft and WindowsForDevices.com, 2006 ( link)

2. IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland) Student Travel Grant, 2007

3. Mobisys 2008 Travel Award, 2008

4. 2nd place in Symantec Intern Research/Project Competition, 2008

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