{"id":1270,"date":"2015-12-08T09:42:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T14:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2015-12-15T09:25:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T14:25:41","slug":"hao-zhang-successfully-defends-his-dissertation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2015\/12\/08\/hao-zhang-successfully-defends-his-dissertation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissertation Defenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Daphne Yao&#8217;s doctoral student Hao Zhang successfully defended his dissertation on October 8, 2015. Hao&#8217;s research lies in the area of network\u00a0security, and more specifically, traffic\u00a0dependence analysis for network\u00a0anomaly detection. His thesis work detects\u00a0stealthy malware activities through analyzing causal relations among network requests.\u00a0 Applications of this analysis include the detection of data exfiltration, bot and spyware activities. Tools developed in Hao&#8217;s thesis\u00a0research provide rich contextual and structural information associated with network events. They can be used by\u00a0security analysts to\u00a0help reason about the security alerts. He and Dr. Yao\u00a0have a pending continuous-in-part (CIP) patent on this anomaly detection technology. Hao Zhang will join the database security team at Oracle, Redwood Shores CA, starting from January 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Daphne Yao&#8217;s doctoral student Hao Zhang successfully defended his dissertation on October 8, 2015. Hao&#8217;s research lies in the area of network\u00a0security, and more specifically, traffic\u00a0dependence analysis for network\u00a0anomaly detection. His thesis work detects\u00a0stealthy malware activities through analyzing causal relations among network requests.\u00a0 Applications of this analysis include the detection of data exfiltration, bot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graduate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}