Assistant Professor

Email: guofei@cse.tamu.edu
Phone: (979)845-2475
Office: 502C HRBB
Website: http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/guofei

Ph.D. Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008
M.S. Computer Science, Fudan University, 2003
B.E. Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2000

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Network security, system security, intrusion/anomaly detection, malware detection/analysis/defense, web and social network security

SELECTED RESEARCH SUPPORT

"An Active Approach for Botnet Detection," THECB NHARP, 2010-2012

"Coordination- and Correlation-based Botnet Defense," NSF, 2010-2015

AWARDS

NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2010

Best Student Paper Award (with Tielei Wang, Tao Wei, and Wei Zou) in IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland'10), 2010

EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2008 - present

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE

Editorial Board, International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), since 2011

Program committee, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), 2012, 2011, 2009

Program committee and Publicity co-Chair, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2011

Program committee and Publicity Chair, International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), 2009-2011

Program committee, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2011

Program committee, ACM Symposium on Information, Computer & Communication Security (ASIACCS), 2010-2011

Program committee, International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2010

Program committee, European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2009

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Chao Yang, Robert Harkreader, Guofei Gu, "Die Free or Live Hard? Empirical Evaluation and New Design for Fighting Evolving Twitter Spammers." Proc. of the 14th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID'11), California, September 2011.

Seungwon Shin, Raymond Lin, Guofei Gu, "Cross-Analysis of Botnet Victims: New Insights and Implications." Proc. of the 14th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID'11), California, September 2011.

Tielei Wang, Tao Wei, Guofei Gu, Wei Zou, "Checksum-Aware Fuzzing Combined with Dynamic Taint Analysis and Symbolic Execution." To appear in ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), 2011.

Seungwon Shin and Guofei Gu, "Conficker and Beyond: A Large-Scale Empirical Study." Proc. of 2010 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'10), Austin, Texas, December 2010.

Tielei Wang, Tao Wei, Guofei Gu, Wei Zou. "TaintScope: A Checksum-Aware Directed Fuzzing Tool for Automatic Software Vulnerability Detection." Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, Oakland, CA, May 2010.

Guofei Gu, Roberto Perdisci, Junjie Zhang, and Wenke Lee, "BotMiner: Clustering Analysis of Network Traffic for Protocol- and Structure-Independent Botnet Detection." Proceedings of the 17th USENIX Security Symposium, San Jose, CA, 2008.

Guofei Gu, Junjie Zhang, Wenke Lee. "BotSniffer: Detecting Botnet Command and Control Channels in Network Traffic." Proceedings of the 15th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (Security'08), San Diego, CA, February 2008.

Guofei Gu, Phillip Porras, Vinod Yegneswaran, Martin Fong, Wenke Lee, "BotHunter: Detecting Malware Infection Through IDS-Driven Dialog Correlation." Proceedings of the 16th USENIX Security Symposium (Security'07), Boston, MA, August 2007.