Xiaojing Liao

I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Grant Thornton Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington. I received my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. My research interests include data-driven security and privacy, with the specific focus on cyber crime, system security, as well as cyber-physical systems security and privacy. In general, my research interests are to discover and understand critical security issues in a large system through data-oriented security analysis, and then to design and develop innovative solutions to address these issues.

Recent Research Areas & Interests:

Cybercrime:[NDSS'22][S&P'22-2][S&P'22-1][Security'21-1][Security'19-1][S&P'19-1][S&P19-2][NDSS'18][S&P'17][S&P'16][CCS'16][WWW'16][ACSAC'16]
Threat intelligence gathering: [Security'22][CCS'21][NDSS'20][Security'18][CCS'16]
Network security and privacy: [CCS'20-2][Security'19-2][NDSS'19][S&P19][S&P'17][CCS'16]
Vulnerability assessment: [Security'21-2][CCS'20-3][CCS'20-1][Security'19-3][CCS'17][S&P'16][CCS'15]

RA position is available: I am looking for self-motivated students, who have strong interests in computer security, cyber crime or threat intelligence. If you are interested, please send me an Email with your CV.

NEWS:

(08/19/2022) I will serve as an NDSS 2023 workshop co-chair. Please check out the CfW.
(11/17/2021) One paper about classifier with global robustness properties was accepted by CCS'2021 and won Best Paper Award runner-up!
(07/20/2021) Thrilled to announce that our proposal about cross-library data harvesting was funded by Facebook 2021 Privacy Enhancing Technologies program. Thanks Facebook :)
(07/03/2021) One paper about illicit cryptomining on continuous integration service platforms was accepted by Oakland'22
(06/08/2021) The proposal "Usability, Scalability, and Deployment Improvement of VerioT" was awarded by NSF. Thanks NSF :)
(02/17/2021) One paper about dark web opioid trade was accepted by JMIR.
(12/07/2020) One paper about a new type of cybercrime -- cross-libaray data harvesting was accepted by USENIX Security'21.
(10/24/2020) One paper about mobile residential proxy was conditionally accepted by NDSS'21.
(09/08/2020) One paper about automatic API misuse detection via library document analysis was accepted by CCS'20.
(08/04/2020) One paper about an empirical study of real-world Ethereum Dapp attacks was accepted by USENIX Security'21.
(07/28/2020) One paper about menaces of stale NS records in the SLD zone was accepted by CCS'20.
(06/17/2020) I will serve on the program committees of Oakland'21 (CFP), NDSS'21 (CFP), ACSAC'20 (CFP), ASIACCS'21 (CFP) and TTO'20 (CFP).
(06/05/2020) One paper about a security analysis of the app-in-app paradigm was accepted by CCS'20
(10/06/2019) One paper about threat intelligence gathering via chatting with cybercriminals was accepted by NDSS'20
(09/10/2019) One proposal about credible open knowledge network was awarded by NSF. Thanks NSF :)
(05/24/2019) Three papers were accepted by USENIX Security'19.
(05/11/2019) I will serve on the program committees of ACSAC'19, NDSS'20 and AsiaCCS'20.
(02/27/2019) Our work on domain take downs won NDSS 2019 Distinguished Paper Award!
(11/12/2018) I will serve on the program committee of Oakland'20. First submission ddl is Jan. 1st.
(11/17/2018) I will serve as the publicity co-chair of WiSec'19. Paper submission deadline is Jan. 25th.
(11/16/2018) Our paper about adversarial images used by cybercriminals was accepted by Oakland'19
(11/12/2018) I will serve on the program committee of CCS'19. Paper submission deadlines are 02/05 and 05/15
(11/06/2018) Our paper about malicious domains' takedown operations was accepted by NDSS'19
(10/17/2018) Honored to be recognized as ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award runner-up.
(07/20/2018) One proposal about text traces based cybercrime study was awarded by NSF. Thanks NSF :)
(06/27/2018) Our paper about the ecosystem of residential proxy was accepted by Oakland'19