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(10/2009) An homage to a classic game -- my homemade
Halloween costume.
(12/2008) A trip to India for SysNet alum Diwaker Gupta's wedding.
(9/2008) My first attempt at cooking pasta with fresh tomato sauce.
(1/2007) Other random
pictures from the past year.
(10/2006) Trip to IMC in
Rio de Janeiro.
(9/2006) Trip to Pisa, and a
5-hour excursion to Florence.
(6/2006-8/2006) Trips to
Chicago,
Toronto, and
Kuala
Lumpur
for judging (with a side trip to Singapore).
(3/2006) The
Perfect Sushi Dinner.
(12/2005) A trip to
Hanoi, Vietnam
to judge at The 8th World Wushu Championships...
(12/2005) Followed by a trip to
Chengdu, China
to see some pandas and visit some historical sites.
Research
My research interests include computer systems and networking with an emphasis
on network security. My current focus is the application of machine learning
to problems in security.
Projects
Recent work
Identifying Suspicious URLs: An Application of Large-Scale Online Learning
Justin Ma, Lawrence K. Saul, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker,
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), pages 681-688, Montreal, Quebec, June 2009.
Talk:
[ODP]
[PPT]
[PDF]
Beyond Blacklists: Learning to Detect Malicious Web Sites from Suspicious URLs
Justin Ma, Lawrence K. Saul, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker,
Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Conference, pages 1245-1253, Paris, France, June 2009.
Talk:
[ODP]
[PPT]
[PDF]
List of Publications
In a nutshell...
I am a PhD candidate advised by Stefan Savage and Geoff Voelker (Systems and Networking),
as well as by Lawrence Saul
(Artificial Intelligence)
in the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering at UCSD.
From 2001-2004, I was an undergrad at the University of Maryland, College Park,
where I earned my bachelor degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics.
