Yao Chen Ph.D Student Computer Science Department              Stony Brook University               Email:   yaochen(a-t)cs(dot)sunysb(dot)edu

I am now a Ph.D. student in Computer Science Dept. at Stony Brook University. I am doing research in Network Security and Applied Cryptography Lab, headed by my advisor Prof. Radu Sion. Before I came to Stony Brook, I obtained my B.S. from Zhejiang University.

Research Interests

Cloud Computing, Network Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptography.

Work Experience

Software Engineer Intern, Common Abuse Tools, Google Inc. Mountain View, CA (Summer 2010)

Software Engineer Intern, Gmail Backend, Google Inc. Mountain View, CA (Summer 2011)

Publications

Bogdan Carbunar, Yao Chen, Radu Sion, "Tipping Pennies? Privately. Practical Anonymous Micropayments", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security TIFS 2012

Yao Chen, Radu Sion "To Cloud Or Not To Cloud? Musings On Costs and Viability", The ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing SOCC 2011, Cascais, Portugal (acceptance rate 16.9% 30/178)

Radu Sion, Yao Chen "Fighting Mallory the Insider: Strong Write Once Read Many Storage Assurances", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY, VOL. 7, NO. 2, APRIL 2012

H. Kang, Y. Chen, J. Wong, R. Sion, and J. Wu, Enhancement of Xen's Scheduler for MapReduce Workloads, ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), San Jose, California, 2011 (acceptance rate: 12.9%, 22/170)

Yao Chen, Radu Sion, "On Securing Untrusted Clouds with Cryptography", in the ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society WPES 2010, at CCS

Yao Chen, Radu Sion, Bogdan Carbunar, "XPay: Practical anonymous payments for Tor routing and other networked services", WPES2009

Yao Chen, Yuntao Qian "Semi-supervised Dynamic Counter Propagation Network", International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications 2006

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