Yunjing Xu, University of Michigan

My research focus is to build real world systems to tackle security, reliability, and performance problems for enterprise networks and public clouds.

News: I have defended and joined Square, Inc. to work in the data science and infrastructure team.

Publications

Small is Better: Avoiding Latency Traps in Virtualized Data Centers
Yunjing Xu, Michael Bailey, Brian Noble, and Farnam Jahanian
In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC'13)
Santa Clara, CA, USA (October 2013)
[paper] [presentation]
Bobtail: Avoiding Long Tails in the Cloud
Yunjing Xu, Zachary Musgrave, Brian Noble and Michael Bailey
In Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'13)
Lombard, IL, USA (April 2013)
[paper] [presentation]
An Exploration of L2 Cache Covert Channels in Virtualized Environments
Yunjing Xu, Michael Bailey, Farnam Jahanian, Kaustubh Joshi, Matti Hiltunen, and Richard Schlichting
In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW'11) (full paper),
Chicago, IL, USA (October 2011)
[paper] [presentation]
CANVuS: Context-Aware Network Vulnerability Scanning
Yunjing Xu, Michael Bailey, Eric Vander Weele, and Farnam Jahanian
In Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium On Recent Advances In Intrusion Detection (RAID'10)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (September, 2010)
[paper] [presentation]
A Survey of Botnet Technology and Defenses
Michael Bailey, Evan Cooke, Farnam Jahanian, Yunjing Xu, and Manish Karir
In Proceedings of the Cybersecurity Applications and Technology Conference For Homeland Security (CATCH'09)
Washington, D.C., USA (March 2009)