Bio

I am a second year PhD student in the Systems and Networking Group and Security & Crypto Group at UC San Diego. I am advised by Stefan Savage and Hovav Shacham and supported by a Powell Fellowship.

Before moving to the Golden Coast®, I earned my BS in Computer Science in 2009 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I was fortunate enough to work with Fabian Monrose and Diane Pozefsky.

Research

My research interests center (very) broadly on security and privacy in computer networks and systems as well as the web.
I am currently exploring novel attack vectors on commodity computer systems in addition to poking around in the Domain Name System.

(A very lonely, for now) Publication(s)

• Wilson Lian, Fabian Monrose, John McHugh. Traffic Classification Using Visual Motifs: An Empirical Evaluation. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec). p. 70-78. September 2010. DOI BibTeX