Xu Lin
I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Washington State University. My research interests revolve around security and privacy. My objectives are to investigate the Web's threat landscape and develop countermeasures to protect user privacy. Lately, I've been focusing on investigating online tracking techniques and tackling pitfalls in authentication mechanisms. I received my M.Sc. degree from Northeastern University and B.Eng degree from Xiamen University.
If you are interested in funded PhD opportunities, please send me an email with your resume.
News
- (06/01/2023) Your web browsing habits may be less private than you think by Kim Martineau at IBM Blog.
- (02/10/2023) Happy to annouce that I will be joining Washington State University as an assistant professor.
- (12/07/2022) Paper on browser stylistic fingerprinting accepted by S&P 2023.
- (09/15/2022) Invited speaker for Antifraud/Web Payments at W3C's 2022 Annual Conference.
- (08/03/2022) Awarded from Brave for finding a security bug in Brave browser. Bug Bounty
- (05/23/2022) Research internship at IBM Research.
- (02/13/2022) Paper on two-factor authentication accepted by USENIX Security 2022. View More
Publications
Fashion Faux Pas: Implicit Stylistic Fingerprints for Bypassing Browsers' Anti-Fingerprinting Defenses
, Frederico Araujo, Teryl Taylor, Jiyong Jang, and Jason Polakis
in Proceeding of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2023. (Acceptance rate: 17.0%)
[news, slides]
Phish in Sheep's Clothing: Exploring the Authentication Pitfalls of Browser Fingerprinting
, Panagiotis Ilia, Saumya Solanki, and Jason Polakis
in Proceeding of USENIX Security Symposium (Security), 2022. (Acceptance rate: 17.2%=256/1492)
[slides]
Fill in the Blanks: Empirical Analysis of the Privacy Threats of Browser Form Autofill
, Panagiotis Ilia, and Jason Polakis
in the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2020. (Acceptance rate: 16.9%=121/715)
[pdf, project website]
CSAW Applied Research Competition Finalist, 2021