Advisor: Prof. Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou
OPERA Group, Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
| Address: |
201 North Goodwin Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801 |
| Phone: | (217) 244-0432 (Office)
(217) 265-6582 (Fax) |
| Email: | lintan2 at cs.uiuc.edu |
Software reliability, software bug detection, and software security, particularly applying natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, information retrieval, and data mining techniques to these areas with a focus on operating system code.
| 1. USENIX Security-08 |
AutoISES: Automatically Inferring Security Specifications and Detecting Violations. Acceptance Rate: 16% (27/170). [PDF] [PS] [BIBTEX] |
| 2. SOSP-07 |
/* iComment: Bugs or Bad Comments? */ Acceptance Rate: 19% (25/131). [PDF] [PS] [Slides in PDF] [Slides in PDF with NO animation] [BIBTEX] |
| 3. HotOS-07 |
HotComments: How to Make Program Comments More Useful? Acceptance Rate: 20% (21/105). [PDF] [BIBTEX] |
| 4. ASID-06 |
Have Things Changed Now? - An Empirical Study of Bug Characteristics in Modern Open Source Software. [PDF] [Slides in PDF] [BIBTEX] |
| 5. TOP PICKS-06 |
Architectures for Bit-Split String Scanning in Intrusion Detection. Acceptance Rate: 16% (13/80). [PDF (Unofficial preprint)] [BIBTEX] |
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6. ACM-TACO-06
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Bit-Split String Matching Engines for Intrusion Detection and Prevention. [PDF] [BIBTEX] |
| 7. ISCA-05 |
A High Throughput String Matching Architecture for Intrusion Detection and Prevention. Acceptance Rate: 23% (45/194). [PDF] [Errata] [Slides in PPT] [BIBTEX] |
| 8. SOSP-05 |
Hibernator: Helping Disk Arrays Sleep Through the Winter. Acceptance Rate: 13% (20/155). [PDF] [BIBTEX] |
Recent Honors and Awards:
IBM Ph.D. Fellowship 2008 - 2009
Verizon Fellowship 2007 - 2008
Verizon Fellowship 2006 - 2007
IEEE Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences 2006 (Our String Matching Architecture Paper)
IBM T.J. Waston Resesarch, Summer 2007
Microsoft Research, Redmond, Summer 2006