McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University

Yan Chen

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Education

Ph.D. Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA

M.S. Computer Science, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY

B.E. Computer Engineering, Zhejiang University, P.R. China

Research Interests

Computer network security, measurement and diagnosis for large scale networks and distributed systems

Selected Publications

• Liu, B.; Chen, Y.; Wang, Y.; He, K.; Dai, H., “Scalable name lookup in NDN using effective name component encoding”, Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2012 IEEE 32nd International Conference on, (2012)
• C. Hu, B. Liu, S. Wang, J. Tian, Y. Cheng and Y. Chen, “ANLS: Adaptive Non-Linear Sampling Method for Accurate Flow Size Measurement”, Ieee Transactions on Communications, (2012)
• Li, Z.; Chen, Y.; Cao, Y.; Liu, B.; Yi, T., “WebShield: Enabling Various Web Defense Techniques without Client Side Modifications”, Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), (2011)
• Wang, J.; Hu, J.; Chen, Y.; Gao, H.; Huang, T., “Security Issues in Online Social Networks”, IEEE internet computing, (2011)
• Kai Chen;Chengchen Hu;Xin Zhang;Kai Zheng;Yan Chen;Athanasios V. Vasilakos, “Survey on Routing in Data Centers: Insights and Future Directions”, Ieee Network, (2011)
• Zhichun Li;Anup Goyal;Yan Chen;Vern Paxson, “Towards Situational Awareness of Large-Scale Botnet Probing Events”, Ieee Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, (2011)
• Zhang, M.; Zhao, Y.; Chen, Y.; Cao, Y.; Goyal, A., “Rake: semantics assisted network-based tracing framework”, Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2011 IEEE 19th International Workshop on, (2011)
• Zhao, Y.; Chen, Y., “Algebraic Approaches for Scalable End-to-End Monitoring and Diagnosis”, Algorithms for Next Generation Networks, (2010)