Shinan Liu 刘诗楠

Final-year Ph.D. Candidate

Computer Science, University of Chicago

shinanliu[AT]uchicago[DOT]edu

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Biography

I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science Department at the University of Chicago and my advisor is Prof. Nick Feamster. I received my Master of Science degree within Ph.D. at UChicago in 2022, and my Bachelor of Engineering degree from Yingcai Honors College at UESTC, in 2019. 
 
Before coming to UChicago, I was the CEO of a start-up Dominity Security Co., Ltd. I am a Research Intern at Conviva mentored by Prof. Vyas Sekar, and a Research Consultant at LangSafe.ai, and I also had my internship at FedML, Virginia Tech, Qihoo 360, MSRA(short-term visit), KnowWhy, and Tsinghua NISL.
 
My research lies in the area of Computer Networking and Security, with a focus on developing accessible, reliable, and performant machine learning systems for network data analysis, and employing network data analysis for critical issues in security and privacy. My work often focuses on network traffic analysis, cellular networks, the Internet of Things, and cyber-physical systems. My work has been recognized and published in top conferences and journals such as USENIX Security, NSDI, SIGMETRICS, CoNext, and UbiComp.

I serve as the head of NSF ACTION AI Institute student advisory council. And I also serve ACM IMC and USENIX NSDI as a PC member and a member of the pre-review task force, and I am also a reviewer of NeurIPS, USENIX ATC, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TIFS, IEEE IoTJ, and etc. Additionally, my research has been featured in multiple media outlets, including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and ACM TechNews.

 

Overview of My Research

 

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Selected Manuscripts (Chronological Order)

[1] ServeFlow: A Fast-Slow Model Architecture for Network Traffic Analysis [arXiv]

Shinan Liu, Ted Shaowang, Gerry Wan, Jeewon Chae, Jonatas Marques, Sanjay Krishnan, Nick Feamster (In Submission)

[2] CATO: End-to-end Optimization of ML Traffic Analysis Pipelines [arXiv]

Gerry Wan, Shinan Liu, Francesco Bronzino, Nick Feamster, Zakir Durumeric The 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’25), April 2025

[3] NetDiffusion: Network Data Augmentation Through Protocol-Constrained Traffic Generation [paper] [blog] [code]

Xi Jiang, Shinan Liu, Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Arjun Nitin Bhagoji, Paul Schmitt, Francesco Bronzino, Nick Feamster. ACM SIGMETRICS / IFIP PERFORMANCE 2024(SIGMTRICS’24), June. 2024

[4] AMIR: Active Multimodal Interaction Recognition from Video and Network Traffic in Connected Environments [paper] [website] [data] [pipeline] [model] [blog]

Shinan Liu, Tarun Mangla, Ted Shaowang, Jinjin Zhao, John Paparrizos, Sanjay Krishnan, Nick Feamster Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (UbiComp/IMWUT’23), October 2023

[5] LEAF: Navigating Concept Drift in Cellular Networks [paper] [data]

Shinan Liu, Francesco Bronzino, Paul Schmitt, Arjun Nitin Bhagoji, Nick Feamster, Hector Garcia Crespo, Timothy Coyle, Brian Ward. The 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies(CoNext’23), December 2023

[6] Stars Can Tell: A Robust Method to Defend against GPS Spoofing Attacks Using Off-the-shelf Chipset [paper] [website] [data] [apk release]

Shinan Liu*, Xiang Cheng*, Hanchao Yang, Yuanchao Shu, Xiaoran Weng, Ping Guo, Kexiong (Curtis) Zeng, Gang Wang, Yaling Yang. 30th USENIX Security Symposium(USENIX Security’21), August 2021

[7] All Your GPS Are Belong To Us: Towards Stealthy Manipulation of Road Navigation Systems [paper] [demo][media coverages]

Kexiong (Curtis) Zeng, Shinan Liu, Yuanchao Shu, Dong Wang, Haoyu Li, Yanzhi Dou, Gang Wang and Yaling Yang. 27th USENIX Security Symposium(USENIX Security’18), August 2018