Xu Lin

“Walking to where the water ends, I sit and watch the clouds rise.”

Wang Wei, My Retreat at Mount Zhongnan
Xu Lin

I am drawn to the seams of the web, where intention and exposure quietly diverge. My research traces the implicit signals browsers expose and how they are used to identify, track, and authenticate users, as well as the cat-and-mouse game between defenses and techniques that bypass them, toward a web where what is revealed is only what was meant.

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University.

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Dispatches

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Publications

When Tracking Learns: Learning-Based Browser Fingerprinting Under Anti-Fingerprinting Defenses

Xu Lin

(To appear) In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2026, The Hague, The Netherlands.

Teaching

Students

Bug Bounty