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	Xinran Wang Ph.D. Networking and Security Research Center Department of Computer Science and Engineering Pennsylvania State University 344 Information Science and Technology Building, State College, PA 16802 Phone: (814) 865-3441 Fax: (814) 865-3176 Email: xinrwang AT cse DOT psu DOT edu Homepage: www.cse.psu.edu/~xinrwang


Biography My name is Xinran Wang. Currently, I am affliated with the Networking and Security Research Center (NSRC), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Pennsylvania State University (PSU). My advisor is Dr. Sencun Zhu. I received my MS and BE degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University , Beijing, China, in 2001 and 1998, respectively. Prior to joining Penn State,I worked as a software engineer for IBM's China Software Development Lab from 2003 to 2004 and Asiainfo Inc. from 2001 to 2003.

Research
Current Interests system and network security, malware analysis, intrusion detection , security and privacy in ad-hoc and sensor networks, intellectual property rights protection.

Publications X. Wang, Y-C Jhi, S. Zhu, P. Liu. Detecting Software Theft via System Call Based Birthmarks In Proc. of the 25th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Dec. 2009 (To appear) X. Wang, Y-C Jhi, S. Zhu, P. Liu. Behavior Based Software Theft Detection In Proc. of the 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '09) (To appear) X. Wang, C. Pan, P. Liu, S. Zhu. SigFree: A Signature-free Buffer Overflow Attack Blocker IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2008. X. Wang, Y-C Jhi, S. Zhu, P. Liu. STILL: Exploit Code Detection via Static Taint and Initialization Analyses Proceedings of 24th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Dec., 2008. X. Wang, Y-C Jhi, S. Zhu, P. Liu. Protecing Web Services from Remote Exploit code: A Static Analysis Approach Poster paper, Proceedings of 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008), Beijing, China, April 2008. Y. Yang, X. Wang, S. Zhu, and G. Cao. SDAP: A Secure Hop-by-Hop Data Aggregation Protocol for Sensor Networks. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), Volume 11 , Issue 4, July 2008. M. Masud, L. Khan, B. Thuraisingham, X. Wang, P. Liu and S. Zhu A Data Mining Technique to Detect Remote Exploits The Fourth IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, 2008. Y. Yang, X. Wang, S. Zhu, and G. Cao. Distributed Software-based Attestation for Node Compromise Detection in Sensor Networks Proceedings of 26^th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), Oct. 2007. X. Wang, C. Pan, P. Liu, S. Zhu. SigFree: A Signature-free Buffer Overflow Attack Blocker Proceedings of USENIX Security'06, Aug. 2006. (Patented) Y. Yang, X. Wang, S. Zhu, and G. Cao. SDAP: A Secure Hop-by-Hop Data Aggregation Protocol for Sensor Networks. Proceedings of ACM MOBIHOC'06, May 2006.