Assistant Professor at University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science Email: ys3kz [at] virginia [dot] edu |
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I am an assistant professor in the department of Computer Science (w/ secondary appointment in Electrical Engineering) at the University of Virginia. My research primarily focuses on network security and privacy.
Before that, I graduated with PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University in Dec. 2019. I was coadvised by Prof. Prateek Mittal and Prof. Mung Chiang. I received B.A degree in Computer Science (Highest Distinction) and Mathematics from the University of Virginia in 2013.
I am broadly interested in network security, privacy, and measurement.
Topics include routing infrastructure, TLS/PKI, DNS, anonymity systems, attack detection, etc..
Fall 2023, CS4501: Privacy in the Internet Age
Spring 2023, CS6501: Network Security and Privacy
Fall 2022, CS4501: Privacy in the Internet Age
Spring 2022, CS6501: Network Security and Privacy
Fall 2021, CS4501: Privacy in the Internet Age
Spring 2021, CS6501: Network Security and Privacy
Fall 2020, CS4501-001: Privacy in the Internet Age
Spring 2020, CS6501-004: Computer Networks
Ph.D. Computer Science, Princeton University, Sep. 2014 - Dec. 2019
M.A. Computer Science, Princeton University, Sep. 2014 - May. 2016
B.A. Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Virginia, Aug. 2009 - May. 2013
Hongying Dong, Hao Shu, Vijay Prakash, Yizhe Zhang, Muhammad Talha Paracha, David Choffnes, Santiago Torres-Arias, Danny Yuxing Huang, Yixin Sun
Behind the Scenes: Uncovering TLS and Server Certificate Practice of IoT Device Vendors in the Wild
IMC, 2023
Yizhe Zhang, Hongying Dong, Alastair Nottingham, Molly Buchanan, Donald Brown, Yixin Sun
Global Analysis with Aggregation-based Beaconing Detection across Large Campus Networks
ACSAC, 2023
Yushan Liu, Xiaokui Shu, Yixin Sun, Jiyong Jang, Prateek Mittal
RAPID: Real-Time Alert Investigation with Context-aware Prioritization for Efficient Threat Discovery
ACSAC, 2022
Henry Birge-Lee, Joel Wanner, Grace Cimaszewski, Jonghoon Kwon, Liang Wang, François Wirz, Prateek Mittal, Adrian Perrig, Yixin Sun
Creating a Secure Underlay for the Internet
USENIX Security, 2022
Yixin Sun, Maria Apostolaki, Henry Birge-Lee, Laurent Vanbever, Jennifer Rexford, Mung Chiang, Prateek Mittal
Securing Internet Applications from Routing Attacks
Communications of the ACM, 2021
Yixin Sun, Kangkook Jee, Suphannee Sivakorn, Zhichun Li, Cristian Lumezanu, Lauri Korts-Parn, Zhenyu Wu, Junghwan Rhee, Chung Hwan Kim, Mung Chiang, Prateek Mittal
Detecting Malware Injection with Program-DNS Behavior
EuroS&P, 2020
Hans Hanley, Yixin Sun, Sameer Wagh, Prateek Mittal
DPSelect: A Differential Privacy Based Guard Relay Selection Algorithm for Tor
PETS, 2019
Suphannee Sivakorn, Kangkook Jee, Yixin Sun, Lauri Korts-Parn, Zhichun Li, Cristian Lumezanu, Lu-An Tang, Ding Li
Countering Malicious Processes with Process-DNS Association
NDSS, 2019
Henry Birge-Lee, Yixin Sun, Anne Edmundson, Jennifer Rexford, Prateek Mittal
Bamboozling Certificate Authorities with BGP
USENIX Security, 2018
Ryan Wails, Yixin Sun, Aaron Johnson, Mung Chiang, Prateek Mittal
Tempest: Temporal Dynamics in Anonymity Systems
PETS, 2018
Henry Birge-Lee, Yixin Sun, Anne Edmundson, Jennifer Rexford, Prateek Mittal
Using BGP to Acquire Bogus TLS Certificates
HotPETS, 2017
Yixin Sun, Anne Edmundson, Nick Feamster, Mung Chiang, Prateek Mittal
Counter-RAPTOR: Safeguarding Tor Against Active Routing Attacks
IEEE S&P, 2017
Yixin Sun, Anne Edmundson, Laurent Vanbever, Oscar Li, Jennifer Rexford, Mung Chiang, Prateek Mittal
RAPTOR: Routing Attacks on Privacy in Tor
USENIX Security, 2015
(Old research..)
Yixin Sun, Kevin Skadron
Prefix Scan and Minimum Spanning Tree with OpenCL
University of Virginia Dept. of Computer Science Tech Report, CS-2013-02
Peng Su, Byungkyu (Brian) Park, Joyoung Lee, Yixin Sun
Proof-of-Concept Study for a Roadway Reservation System
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2381.1 (2013): 1-8.
Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, Jan. 2020 - Present
Research Intern, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Jun. 2017 - Aug. 2017
Research Intern, NEC Labs, May. 2016 - Aug. 2016
Research Intern, Verisign Labs, Jun. 2015 - Aug. 2015
Web Developer, ICF International, Jun. 2012 - Aug. 2012 and Jul. 2013 - Jun. 2014