Ting Yu Research Director, Cyber Security Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) Email: tyu@hbku.edu.qa Phone: +974 44545706 Office: HBKU Research Complex, Building 1, A146

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Ting Yu is the research director of the cyber security group of Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Before joining QCRI in 2013, he was an associate professor in the faculty of Computer Science Department, North Carolina State University. He obtained his BS from Peking University in 1997, MS from Minnesota University in 1998, and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003, all in computer science. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2007.

His research areas focus on data privacy, security data analytics and network security.

Recent Professional Activities

• Editorial board member:ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TISSEC/TOPS, 2014 - ), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC, 2015 - ), Computer & Security (COSE, 2017 - )
• TPC member: VLDB'22, AsiaCCS'21, ICDE'21, SACMAT'21, WWW'21, ICDE'20, SACMAT'20, CIKM'19, ICDCS'19, ICDE'19, CCS'19

Recent Publications

• RavinduDe Silva, Mohamed Nabeel, Charith Elvitigala, Issa Khalil, Ting Yu, and Chamath Kepptiyagama: "Compromised or Attacker-Owned: A Large Scale Classification and Study of Hosting Domains of Malicious URLs." To appear in USENIX Security, 2021.
• Ningyu He, Ruiyi Zhang, Lei Wu, Haoyu Wang, Xiapu Luo, Yao Guo, Ting Yu, and Xuxian Jiang: "EOSAFE: Security Analysis of EOSIO Smart Contracts." To appear in USENIX Security, 2021.
• Lun-Pin Yuan, Euijin Choo, Ting Yu, Issa Khalil, and Sencun Zhu: "Time-Window Based Group-Behavior Supported Method for Accurate Detection of Anomalous Users." To appear in IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2021.
• Pengcheng Xia, Mohamed Nabeel, Issa Khalil, Haoyu Wang, and Ting Yu: "Identifying and Characterizing COVID-19 Themed Malicious Domain Campaigns." To appear in ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), 2021.
• Mohamed Nabeel, Issa Khalil, Bei Guan, and Ting Yu: "Following Passive DNS Traces to Detect Stealthy Malicious Domains Via Graph Inference." ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS) 23(4):17:1-17:36, 2020.
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Patents

• Mohamed Nabeel, IssaM. Khalil, Ting Yu and Euijin Choo, "Method and system for domain maliciousness assessment via real-time graph inference," US20200382533, Pending.
• Issa Khalil, Ting Yu and Marc C. Dacier, "Method to identify malicious web domain names thanks to their dynamics," US10681070, Issued on June 9, 2020.
• Graham Cormode, Divesh Srivastava, Ting Yu and Qing Zhang, "Method and apparatus for providing anonymization of data," US8590049, issued on Nov. 19, 2013
• Divesh Srivastava, Nikolaos Koudas, Ting Yu and Qing Zhang, "Systems and associated computer program products that disguise partitioned data structures using transformations having targeted distributions," US8209342, issued on Jun. 26, 2012

Honors and Awards

• Best paper award, ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, 2018.
• Best paper award, Annual IFIP WG Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, 2015.
• Best paper award, ACM Conference on Access Control Models and Technologies, 2012.
• Research Scholarship, K.C.Wang Education Foundation, Hong Kong, 2010.
• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2017.
• David J. Kuck Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Awards, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.