Yanzhi “Aaron” Dou, (in Chinese 窦彦智)

Research Scientist/Engineer at Facebook Contact Info: Address: 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025 Email: aaron.yzdou AT gmail DOT com [CV][Google Scholar][LinkedIn][GitHub]

Welcome

I am a research scientist/engineer at Facebook with work across multiple areas, including product security, real-time data infrastructure, and the Facebook Connectivity Lab (internet.org). My research focuses on securing products and infrastructure by developing novel and effective prevention and detection systems. For prevention, I have been working on hardening the key components of the massive FB codebase by identifying exploitable bugs via program analysis. For detection, I worked on building anomaly detection systems for alerting about unusual data movement and performing root cause analysis on detected anomalies.

Before joining Facebook, I received my PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from Virginia Tech in 2017. My dissertation was about building privacy-preserving dynamic spectrum access systems. I earned my bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University in 2013.

Research Interests

Fuzz testing, anomaly detection, wireless network security, privacy-enhancing technologies, machine learning, applied cryptography.

Selected publications [Full List]

• PeDSS: Privacy Enhanced and Database-Driven Dynamic spectrum Sharing.
  H. Li, Y. Yang, Y. Dou, J. Park, K. Ren. IEEE INFOCOM 2019.

• All Your GPS Are Belong To Us: Towards Stealthy Manipulation of Road Navigation Systems.
  K.C. Zeng, S. Liu, Y. Shu, D. Wang, H. Li, Y. Dou, G. Wang, Y. Yang. USENIX Security 2018.
  Publicity: Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, ACM TechNews, The Cyberwire podcast etc.

• Preserving the Incumbent Users’ Location Privacy in the 3.5 GHz Band.
  H. Li, Y. Dou, C. Lu, D. Zabransky, Y. Yang, J. Park. IEEE DySpan 2018.

• Preserving Incumbent Users’ Privacy in Server-Driven Dynamic Spectrum Access Systems.
  Y. Dou, H. Li, K. C. Zeng, J. Liu, Y. Yang, B. Gao and S. Li. IEEE ICDCS 2017.
  

• A practical GPS location spoofing attack in road navigation scenario.
  K.C. Zeng, Y. Shu, S. Liu, Y. Dou, Y. Yang. ACM HotMobile 2017.

• P2-SAS: Preserving Users’ Privacy in Centralized Dynamic Spectrum Access Systems.
  Y. Dou, K. C. Zeng, H. Li, Y. Yang, B. Gao, C. Guan, K. Ren, and S. Li. ACM MobiHoc 2016.
  Full paper with rigorous security proof was published in IEEE JSAC. [link]

• MadeCR: Correlation-based Malware Detection for Cognitive Radio.
  Y. Dou, K. C. Zeng, Y. Yang and D. Yao. IEEE INFOCOM 2015.
  

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A., 08/2013-11/2017

• M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A., 08/2013-12/2016

• B.E., Electronic and Computer Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 08/2009-06/2013

• Academic Talent Program (Physics and Mathematics) in School of Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 08/2009-06/2011

Awards and Grants

• [2017] Outstanding student award from CESCA.

• [2016] Selected participant of ACM Student Research Competition.

• [2016] Student travel grant from ACM MobiCom, ACM MobiHoc, and IEEE ICDCS.

• [2015] Student travel grant from ACM Mobicom and IEEE INFOCOM.

Community Service

• Reviewer: IEEE INFOCOM 2017, 2016, 2015, IEEE WCNC 2018

• Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Systems Journal

Hobbies

• Billiards (3rd place in 2014 VT-ACSS single 8-ball tournament, 2nd place in 2016 VT-ACSS team 8-ball tournament)

• Golf (Just started)

• Bodybuilding (10 years)