Shinan Liu 刘诗楠
Final-year Ph.D. Candidate
Computer Science, University of Chicago
shinanliu[AT]uchicago[DOT]edu
Google Scholar Page CV (Last updated: Dec. 2024)
I am on the job market for tenure-track faculty positions (2024-2025).
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Biography
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
What’s New?
- We got our paper “CATO: End-to-end Optimization of ML Traffic Analysis Pipelines” accepted at NSDI 2025. Shout out to Gerry, Francesco, Nick, and Zakir! See you guys in Philadelphia!
- Excited to be accepted to attend the NeTS Early Career Investigator Workshop 2025 at NSF Headquarters!
- 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!!
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