Fei Shao PhD Student Department of Computer & Data Sciences Case School of Engineering Case Western Reserve University

Advisor: Xusheng Xiao Co-Advisor: Yinghui Wu Lab: RISE lab Email:  fxs128_at_case_dot_edu Homepage: https://feishao315.github.io/

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Research Interests: Computer Security, Software Engineering

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About

I am a Ph.D. student at Case Western Reserve University, under the supervision of Dr. Xusheng Xiao and Dr. Yinghui Wu. My research interests are in the fields of computer security and software engineering.

Research Projects

• EffHunter
  EFFHUNTER is a system that facilitates cyber threat hunting in computer systems using OSCTI. My contribution is to parse and store Sysdig logs and Darpa-TC logs into PostgresSQL and Neo4j for the evaluations.


• WebEvo
  WebEvo is a novel tool to monitor web element changes that can break IR tools and web test scripts. It consists of DOM tree based change detection, history based semantic structure change detection and a novel semantics-based visual search module to find semantic structure changes occuring between different versions of a web page.


• DepGQL
  DepGQL is a graph query language for expressing causality analysis of the system audit logs, so that expert knowledge can be easily incorporated into the analysis for extending the causality analysis.

Publications

• NODLINK: An Online System for Fine-Grained APT Attack Detection and Investigation
  Shaofei Li, Feng Dong, Ding Li, Xusheng Xiao, Haoyu Wang, Fei Shao, Jiedong Chen, Yao Guo, and Xiangqun Chen.
  In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2024), San Diego, California, USA, Feb-Mar 2024.


• DISTDET: A Cost-Effective Distributed Cyber Threat Detection System
  Feng Dong, Liu Wang, Xu Nie, Fei Shao, Haoyu Wang, Ding Li, Xiapu Luo, and Xusheng Xiao.
  In Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2023), May 2023.


• System-Auditing, Data Analysis and Characteristics of Cyber Attacks for Big Data Systems
  Liangyi Huang, Sophia Hall, Fei Shao, Arafath Nihar, Vipin Chaudhary, Yinghui Wu, Roger French and Xusheng Xiao.
  CIKM Demo Track 2022.


• WebEvo: Taming Web Application Evolution via Detecting Semantic Structure Change
  Fei Shao, Rui Xu, Wasif Haque, Jingwei Xu, Ying Zhang, Wei Yang, Yanfang Ye, and Xusheng Xiao.
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2021), Virtual, July 2021.


• Enabling Efficient Cyber Threat Hunting With Cyber Threat Intelligence
  Peng Gao, Fei Shao, Xiaoyuan Liu, Xusheng Xiao, Zheng Qin, Fengyuan Xu, Prateek Mittal, Sanjeev Kulkarni, and Dawn Song.
  In Proceedings of the 37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2021), Virtual, April 2021.


• A System for Efficiently Hunting for Cyber Threats in Computer Systems Using Threat Intelligence
  Peng Gao, Fei Shao, Xiaoyuan Liu, Xusheng Xiao, Zheng Qin, Fengyuan Xu, Prateek Mittal, Sanjeev Kulkarni, and Dawn Song.
  In Proceedings of the 37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2021), Demo Track, Virtual Event, April 2021.


• WEBEVO: Taming Web Application Evolution via Semantic Structure Change Detection
  Fei Shao
  In Proceedings of SRC@ICSE'21.

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