Yacin Nadji

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contact info

(my first name at gatech dot edu)

bio

Howdy! I'm a computer security Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Tech. My advisor is Wenke Lee and I work in the areas of network-level threat attribution, DNS security and applied machine learning. My interests are broad and I've also done work in mobile device security, dynamic malware analysis, web security, and information retrieval. I received my undergrad from IIT where I was a member of the IIT Information Retrieval Lab led by Ophir Frieder. My stint in web security was alongside Dawn Song's WebBlaze research group.

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publications

  1. Wei Zhuo, Yacin Nadji. "MalwareVis: Entity-based Visualization of Malware Network Traces." Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) October 15, 2012, Seattle, WA. [PDF]
  2. Manos Antonakakis, Roberto Perdisci, Yacin Nadji, Nikolaos Vasiloglou, Saeed Abu-Nimeh, Wenke Lee, David Dagon. "From Throw-Away Traffic to Bots: Detecting the Rise of DGA-Based Malware." USENIX Security Symposium, Bellevue, WA, August 8–10, 2012. (acceptance rate 19.4% = 43/222) [PDF]
  3. Yacin Nadji, Manos Antonakakis, Roberto Perdisci, Wenke Lee. "Understanding the Prevalence and Use of Alternative Plans in Malware with Network Games." Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2011. (18.5% acceptance rate) [PDF]
  4. Yacin Nadji, Jon Giffin, Patrick Traynor. "Automated Remote Repair for Mobile Malware." Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2011. (18.5% acceptance rate) [PDF]
  5. Yacin Nadji, Prateek Saxena, Dawn Song. "Document Structure Integrity: A Robust Basis for Cross-site Scripting Defense." Network & Distributed System Security Symposium, 2009. (11% acceptance rate) [PDF]

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