I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of California at Santa Barbara. Before UCSB, I completed my M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley (2000, 2004), and received my B.S. degree from Yale University (Branford, 1997). My research spans the areas of networking, security and privacy, distributed systems, simulation and modeling. These days, I spend a lot of time gathering, mining and analyzing online social networks, and the rest of the time thinking about software defined radios. I am a recipient of the National Science Foundation's CAREER award, MIT Tech Review's TR-35 Award (Young Innovators Under 35), and ComputerWorld's Top 40 Technology Innovators.
New and Hopefully Useful
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- The "crowdturfing" paper has been accepted to WWW 2012 (12% accept rate, OUCH!), congrats to Gang, Christo, Xiaohan, Yibo and Manish!!
- Our new work on malicious crowdsourcing has featured in a Boston Globe editorial, Slashdot, and an MIT Technology Review article.
- Our work on 3D wireless links for data centers is featured in an MIT Technology Review article, and in an New York Times article.
- We finally got around to releasing code that allows users to generate synthetic graphs that closely match our Facebook measurement datasets in structure and function. Instructions and code here: http://current.cs.ucsb.edu/socialmodels/.
- Due to time and space constraints, I will not be taking on any Post-docs, visiting scholars, or undergraduate visiting students seeking internships. I am also unable to respond to all e-mails seeking these positions.
- My Erdos number is 3, Erdos -> Michael Saks -> Kirsten Hildrum -> me.
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Teaching
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Research
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- At UCSB, I lead the CURRENT lab for research on Secure and Reliable Networking.
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Recent Papers
- Gelato @ MobiHoc'12
- Opportunistic Spectrum Access @TransNetworking'12
- Crowdturfing @ WWW'12
- 3D Wireless Beamforming @ HotNets'11
- Rigel @ CollaborateCom'11, Download Code
- Cuckoo @ Middleware'11
- DifferentialPrivateGraphs, SybilsInTheWild @ IMC'11
- Silverline @ SoCC'11
- Borealis @MOBICOM'11
- AirLab, Papyrus @CCR'11
- Polaris Mobile Social Network @HotMobile'11
- Facebook Locality @CoNEXT'10
- Renren, Facebook Spam, Freq.Bundles @IMC'10
- Research Areas/Projects
- Privacy and Data Mining in Social Networks
- Graph Analysis and Graph Models
- Cognitive Radio and SDR Networks
- Vehicular Networks
- Anonymous Communication
- Reputations for peer-to-peer systems
- My thesis work on Tapestry structured P2P overlay
- At UCSB, I lead the CURRENT lab for research on Secure and Reliable Networking.
Dates: Travel and CFPs
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Professional Activities
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Contact Info
Prof. Ben Y. Zhao Department of Computer Science University of California Santa Barbara, California 93106-5110 Tel: +1 (805) 893-3417 Fax: +1 (805) 893-8553 Find me on Facebook and Twitter |