Christo Wilson

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• PhD Student, Department of Computer Science, UCSB
• Member of the CURRENT Lab working under Ben Y. Zhao
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My primary interests are complex networks, online social networks (OSNs), security and privacy, and datacenter networks. Much of my work focuses on using measured data to analyze and understand complex networks. OSNs are ideal for these types of studies since they are a tremendous source of massive, rich, dynamic graph data. My interests in security and privacy dovetail nicely with my interest in OSNs, since OSNs have become major targets for malicious activity. Finally, I am interested in the datacenter architectures that power OSNs and other large-scale web services, with a focus on novel network protocols and datacenter-scale applications.

April, 2012
It's official: my days at UCSB are numbered. Starting September 1, I will be Professor Wilson of Northeastern University! Boston, here I come!

January 30, 2012
The crowdturfing paper got accepted to WWW 2012. Lyon, here we come!

January 6, 2012
First post of the new year! Very evocative piece on our crowdturfing work, this time from the Boston Globe.

December 13, 2011
More crowdturfing coverage, this time on Slashdot.

December 12, 2011
MIT Technology Review has an article covering our study (Arxiv pre-print) on evil crowd-sourcing services, a.k.a. crowdturfing. Our study focuses on the so called Chinese "Water Army," but be warned that we have also found crowdturfing sites targeting the U.S. Web as well.

December 6, 2011
The journal version of our Eurosys 2009 paper has been accepted to ACM Transactions on the Web. Links to the new journal version of the paper and publication info will be posted when available.

September 26, 2011
I am TAing the Fall CS 276 class. If you need me, I can be reached by email, and I'm usually in my office (trailer 936, near Phelps, behind Chemistry) during the day. Office hours are at 1 on Thursdays.

August 16, 2011
The paper that resulted from my internship last summer at Microsoft Research Cambridge received the Honorable Mention Award at SIGCOMM 2011. The paper, Better Never than Late: Meeting Deadlines in Datacenter Networks, is available here.

October 22, 2010
Our work on detecting spam on Facebook has been featured in MIT's Technology Review. Click here for the article, which includes one of my Illustrator diagrams.

August 17, 2010
I am one of the featured interns at Microsoft Research for 2010. This article has the story; my section is towards the middle.