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65
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14230
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Dongyan Xu is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of computer science. Their work focuses on various subfields including computer networks and communications, artificial intelligence, information systems, signal processing, and physical therapy, sports therapy, and rehabilitation.

Their research covers a range of topics that include security and verification in computing, Bluetooth and wireless communication technologies, user authentication and security systems, advanced malware detection techniques, advanced authentication protocols security, balance, gait, and falls prevention, as well as scientific computing and data management.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Dongyan Xu include Antonio Bianchi, Dave Tian, Jianliang Wu, Ruoyu Wu, and Gabriela Ciocarlie.

Dongyan Xu has published in notable venues such as the 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Physiological Measurement, Frontiers in Neurology, and the Proceedings of the 2022 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security.

  • "TRACE: Enterprise-Wide Provenance Tracking for Real-Time APT Detection," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • "Formal Model-Driven Discovery of Bluetooth Protocol Design Vulnerabilities," 2022, 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
  • "A novel gait parameter estimation method for healthy adults and postoperative patients with an ear-worn sensor," 2020, Physiological Measurement
  • "PGPatch: Policy-Guided Logic Bug Patching for Robotic Vehicles," 2022, 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
  • "LIGHTBLUE: Automatic Profile-Aware Debloating of Bluetooth Stacks," 2023, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

In recognition of their contributions to science, Dongyan Xu was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Stealthy malware detection and monitoring through VMM-based “out-of-the-box” semantic view reconstruction

    Xuxian Jiang;Xinyuan Wang;Dongyan Xu

  • Stealthy malware detection through vmm-based "out-of-the-box" semantic view reconstruction

    Xuxian Jiang;Xinyuan Wang;Dongyan Xu

  • PROMISE: peer-to-peer media streaming using CollectCast

    Mohamed Hefeeda;Ahsan Habib;Boyan Botev;Dongyan Xu

  • Automatic reverse engineering of data structures from binary execution

    Zhiqiang Lin;Xiangyu Zhang;Dongyan Xu

  • On peer-to-peer media streaming

    Dongyan Xu;M. Hefeeda;S. Hambrusch;B. Bhargava

  • Guest-Transparent Prevention of Kernel Rootkits with VMM-Based Memory Shadowing

    Ryan Riley;Xuxian Jiang;Dongyan Xu

  • Analysis of a CDN---P2P hybrid architecture for cost-effective streaming media distribution

    Dongyan Xu;Sunil Suresh Kulkarni;Catherine Rosenberg;Heung-Keung Chai

  • Automatic Protocol Format Reverse Engineering through Context-Aware Monitored Execution.

    Zhiqiang Lin;Xuxian Jiang;Dongyan Xu;Xiangyu Zhang

  • Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

    Bhavani Thuraisingham;David Evans;Tal Malkin;Dongyan Xu

  • VIOLIN: virtual internetworking on overlay infrastructure

    Xuxian Jiang;Dongyan Xu

  • Robust Computation of Aggregates in Wireless Sensor Networks: Distributed Randomized Algorithms and Analysis

    J.-Y. Chen;G. Pandurangan;D. Xu

  • GnuStream: a P2P media streaming system prototype

    Xuxian Jiang;Yu Dong;Dongyan Xu;B. Bhargava

  • QoS-aware middleware for ubiquitous and heterogeneous environments

    K. Nahrstedt;Dongyan Xu;D. Wichadakul;Baochun Li

  • Autonomic Live Adaptation of Virtual Computational Environments in a Multi-Domain Infrastructure

    P. Ruth;Junghwan Rhee;Dongyan Xu;R. Kennell

  • DKSM: Subverting Virtual Machine Introspection for Fun and Profit

    Sina Bahram;Xuxian Jiang;Zhi Wang;Mike Grace

  • ProTracer: Towards Practical Provenance Tracing by Alternating Between Logging and Tainting.

    Shiqing Ma;Xiangyu Zhang;Dongyan Xu

  • Collapsar: a VM-based architecture for network attack detention center

    Xuxian Jiang;Dongyan Xu

  • Detecting Attacks Against Robotic Vehicles: A Control Invariant Approach

    Hongjun Choi;Wen-Chuan Lee;Yousra Aafer;Fan Fei

  • Virtual distributed environments in a shared infrastructure

    P. Ruth;X. Jiang;D. Xu;S. Goasguen

  • VioCluster: Virtualization for Dynamic Computational Domains

    P. Ruth;P. McGachey;Dongyan Xu

  • High Accuracy Attack Provenance via Binary-based Execution Partition.

    Kyu Hyung Lee;Xiangyu Zhang;Dongyan Xu

  • An Architectural Approach to Preventing Code Injection Attacks

    Ryan Riley;Xuxian Jiang;Dongyan Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiangyu Zhang
Xiangyu Zhang Purdue University West Lafayette
Xuxian Jiang
Xuxian Jiang PeckShield
Klara Nahrstedt
Klara Nahrstedt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Zhiqiang Lin
Zhiqiang Lin The Ohio State University
Bharat Bhargava
Bharat Bhargava Purdue University West Lafayette
Baochun Li
Baochun Li University of Toronto
Eugene H. Spafford
Eugene H. Spafford Purdue University West Lafayette
Mathias Payer
Mathias Payer École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Catherine Rosenberg
Catherine Rosenberg University of Waterloo

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