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. And I received my Master of Science degree within Ph.D. at UChicago in the Summer of 2022 and my Bachelor of Engineering degree from Yingcai Honors College at UESTC. 
 
Before coming to UChicago, I was the CEO of a start-up Dominity Security Co., Ltd. I am 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 interests lie in the intersection between ML systems, networking, security & privacy, and measurement. Typical scenarios I’ve explored include Cellular Networks, IoT, and CPS. My dream and what I constantly endeavor is to become a researcher, hacker, poet, and practical idealist.
 

Overview of My Research

(First or co-first authored papers/projects are in Italics.)

Operational ML for Networking

Digital Well-being & Security

 

What’s New?

  • I am very grateful for the warmest welcome extended to me by Prof. Brighten Godfrey and Prof. Tianyin Xu at the UIUC SysNet seminar. The community is super kind and insightful!
  • Immense gratitude to Prof. Zakir Durumeric and Dr. Gerry Wan for hosting my talk at the ESRG of Stanford University! The visit was incredibly welcoming and intellectually enriching.
  • Glad to be invited as a TPC member of IMC 2024! 
  • Our recent work on the highly efficient ML-based traffic analysis system ServeFlow: A Fast-Slow Model Architecture for Network Traffic Analysis is now on arXiv! So are CATO and AC-DC.
  • Recently, I had the privilege of giving a talk on “Operational ML in Networking” at both Carnegie Mellon University and Emerald Inc., extending my sincere thanks to Prof. Peter Steenkiste and Prof. Srinivasan Seshan at CMU, and Prof. Dina Katabi at MIT for their gracious invitations.
  • How to generate high-fidelity PCAP traces using a Generative Model? Our latest work “Generative, High-Fidelity Network Traces” explores this question and has just been accepted by HotNets’23. Our full paper NetDiffusion: Network Data Augmentation Through Protocol-Constrained Traffic Generation has been accepted by SIGMETRICS’24. Huge thanks to Chase, Aaron, Arjun, Paul, Francesco, and Nick for making it happen!
  • Started to serve as the Head of the Student Advisory Council at the ACTION AI Institute. 
  • Our paper “LEAF: Navigating Concept Drift in Cellular Networks” has been accepted by CoNext’23! It is the first end-to-end work to characterize, explain, and mitigate concept drift in networking. Huge shout out to Francesco, Paul, Arjun, Nick, and our Verizon collaborators Hector, Tim, and Brian!!
  • We got our paper “AMIR: Active Multimodal Interaction Recognition from Video and Network Traffic in Connected Environment” accepted at UbiComp/IMWUT 2023. Shout out to Tarun, Ted, Jinjin, John, Sanjay, and Nick! Check out our website for released datasets, processed features, models, and analysis pipelines. 
  • Thanks to the invitation from Prof. Wenke Lee, I shared my research “Towards Data-centric AI for Robust and Secure Operations in Networks” at GaTech. Really glad to have the opportunity to talk to the great minds at GaTech!

Selected Publications

[1] 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

[2] 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

[3] 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

[4] NetDiffusion: Network Data Augmentation Through Protocol-Constrained Traffic Generation [paper]

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

[5] 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