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Google's Chrome Antitrust Paradox
Shaoor Munir, Konrad Kollnig, Anastasia Shuba, Zubair Shafiq
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law (JETLaw), Volume 27, 2024.
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A Scientific Approach to Tech Accountability
David Choffnes, Woodrow Hartzog, Scott Jordan, Athina Markopoulou, Zubair Shafiq
Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (JoLT) Volume 37, Number 3, 2024.
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Aragorn: A Privacy-Enhancing System for Mobile Cameras
Hari Venugopalan, Zainul Abi Din, Trevor Carpenter, Jason Lowe-Power, Sam King, Zubair Shafiq
ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT/UbiComp), 2024.
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The Inventory is Dark and Full of Misinformation: Understanding Ad Inventory Pooling in the Ad-Tech Supply Chain
Yash Vekaria, Rishab Nithyanand, Zubair Shafiq
IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (“Oakland”), 2024.
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Auditing YouTube's Recommendation System for Ideologically Congenial, Extreme, and Problematic Recommendations
Muhammad Haroon, Magdalena Wojcieszak, Anshuman Chhabra, Xin Liu, Prasant Mohapatra, Zubair Shafiq
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2023.
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Tracking, Profiling, and Ad Targeting in the Alexa Echo Smart Speaker Ecosystem
Umar Iqbal, Pouneh Nikkhah Bahrami, Rahmadi Trimananda, Hao Cui, Alexander Gamero-Garrido, Daniel Dubois, David Choffnes, Athina Markopoulou, Franziska Roesner, Zubair Shafiq
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2023.
Best Paper Award
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Blocking JavaScript without Breaking the Web
Abdul Haddi Amjad, Zubair Shafiq, Muhammad Ali Gulzar
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2023.
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A Utility-Preserving Obfuscation Approach for YouTube Recommendations
Jiang Zhang, Hadi Askari, Konstantinos Psounis, Zubair Shafiq
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2023.
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CookieGraph: Understanding and Detecting First-Party Tracking Cookies
Shaoor Munir, Sandra Siby, Umar Iqbal, Steven Englehardt, Zubair Shafiq, Carmela Troncoso
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2023.
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AutoFR: Automated Filter Rule Generation for Adblocking
Hieu Le, Salma Elmalaki, Athina Markopoulou, Zubair Shafiq
USENIX Security Symposium (Security), 2023.
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Accuracy-Privacy Trade-off in Deep Ensemble: A Membership Inference Perspective
Shahbaz Rezaei, Zubair Shafiq, Xin Liu
IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (“Oakland”), 2023.
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Harpo: Learning to Subvert Online Behavioral Advertising
Jiang Zhang, Konstantinos Psounis, Muhammad Haroon, Zubair Shafiq
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2022.
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Khaleesi: Breaker of Advertising and Tracking Request Chains
Umar Iqbal, Charlie Wolfe, Charles Nguyen, Steven Englehardt, Zubair Shafiq
USENIX Security Symposium (Security), 2022.
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WebGraph: Capturing Advertising and Tracking Information Flows for Robust Blocking
Sandra Siby, Umar Iqbal, Steven Englehardt, Zubair Shafiq, Carmela Troncoso
USENIX Security Symposium (Security), 2022.
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FP-Radar: Longitudinal Measurement and Early Detection of Browser Fingerprinting
Pouneh Nikkhah Bahrami, Umar Iqbal, Zubair Shafiq
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2022.
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Adversarial Authorship Attribution for Deobfuscation
Wanyue Zhai, Jonathan Rusert, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022.
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On the Robustness of Offensive Language Classifiers
Jonathan Rusert, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022.
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DNN Model Architecture Fingerprinting Attack on CPU-GPU Edge Devices
Kartik Patwari, Syed Mahbub Hafiz, Han Wang, Houman Homayoun, Zubair Shafiq, Chen-Nee Chuah
IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2022.
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Stealthy Inference Attack on DNN via Cache-based Side-channel Attacks
Han Wang, Syed Mahbub Hafiz, Kartik Patwari, Chen-Nee Chuah, Zubair Shafiq, Houman Homayoun
IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2022.
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TrackerSift: Untangling Mixed Tracking and Functional Web Resources
Abdul Haddi Amjad, Danial Saleem, Fareed Zaffar, Muhammad Ali Gulzar, Zubair Shafiq
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2021.
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Fingerprinting the Fingerprinters: Learning to Detect Browser Fingerprinting Behaviors
Umar Iqbal, Steven Englehardt, Zubair Shafiq
IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (“Oakland”), 2021.
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CV-Inspector: Towards Automating Detection of Adblock Circumvention
Hieu Le, Athina Markopoulou, Zubair Shafiq
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2021.
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Eluding ML-based Adblockers With Actionable Adversarial Examples
Shitong Zhu, Zhongjie Wang, Xun Chen, Shasha Li, Keyu Man, Umar Iqbal, Zhiyun Qian, Kevin Chan, Srikanth Krishnamurthy, Zubair Shafiq
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2021.
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Fingerprinting Fine-tuned Language Models in the Wild
Nirav Diwan, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Zubair Shafiq
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2021.
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Through the Looking Glass: Learning to Attribute Synthetic Text Generated by Language Models
Shaoor Munir, Brishna Batool, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan, Fareed Zaffar
European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2021.
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Understanding Incentivized Mobile App Installs on Google Play Store
Shehroze Farooqi, Alvaro Feal, Tobias Lauinger, Damon McCoy, Zubair Shafiq, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2020.
Best Paper Award Candidate
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A Girl Has A Name: Detecting Authorship Obfuscation
Asad Mahmood, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020.
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CanaryTrap: Detecting Data Misuse by Third-Party Apps on Online Social Networks
Shehroze Farooqi, Maaz Musa, Zubair Shafiq, Fareed Zaffar
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2020.
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The TV is Smart and Full of Trackers: Measuring Smart TV Advertising and Tracking
Janus Varmarken, Hieu Le, Anastasia Shuba, Zubair Shafiq, Athina Markopoulou
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2020.
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Inferring Tracker-Advertiser Relationships in the Online Advertising Ecosystem using Header Bidding
John Cook, Rishab Nithyanand, Zubair Shafiq
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2020.
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Measuring and Mitigating OAuth Access Token Abuse by Collusion Networks
Shehroze Farooqi, Fareed Zaffar, Nektarios Leontiadis, Zubair Shafiq
Communications of the ACM (CACM) Research Highlights, 2020.
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Technical Perspective
AdGraph: A Graph-Based Approach to Ad and Tracker Blocking
Umar Iqbal, Peter Snyder, Shitong Zhu, Benjamin Livshits, Zhiyun Qian, Zubair Shafiq
IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (“Oakland”), 2020.
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FlowTrace: A Framework for Active Bandwidth Measurements using In-band Packet Trains
Adnan Ahmed, Ricky Mok, Zubair Shafiq
Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), 2020.
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Optimizing Taxi Driver Profit Efficiency: A Spatial Network-based Markov Decision Process Approach
Xun Zhou, Huigui Rong, Chang Yang, Qun Zhang, Amin Vahedian Khezerlou, Hui Zheng, Zubair Shafiq, Alex Liu
IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2020.
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ShadowBlock: A Lightweight and Stealthy Adblocking Browser
Shitong Zhu, Umar Iqbal, Zhongjie Wang, Zhiyun Qian, Zubair Shafiq, Weiteng Chen
The Web Conference (WWW), 2019.
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Measuring Political Personalization of Google News Search
Huyen Le, Raven Maragh, Brian Ekdale, Timothy Havens, Andrew High, Zubair Shafiq
The Web Conference (WWW), 2019.
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No Place to Hide: Inadvertent Location Privacy Leaks on Twitter
Jonathan Rusert, Osama Khalid, Dat Hong, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2019.
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A Girl Has No Name: Automated Authorship Obfuscation using Mutant-X
Asad Mahmood, Faizan Ahmad, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan, Fareed Zaffar
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2019.
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A Postmortem of Suspended Twitter Accounts in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Huyen Le, Bob Boynton, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2019.
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Large Scale Characterization of Software Vulnerability Life Cycles
Muhammad Shahzad, Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2019.
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NoMoAds: Effective and Efficient Cross-App Mobile Ad-Blocking
Anastasia Shuba, Athina Markopoulou, Zubair Shafiq
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2018.
Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award
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Measuring and Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis
Shitong Zhu, Xunchao Hu, Zhiyun Qian, Zubair Shafiq, Heng Yin
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2018.
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Optimizing Internet Transit Routing for Content Delivery Networks
Faraz Ahmed, Zubair Shafiq, Amir Khakpour, Alex X. Liu
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2018.
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Measuring and Mitigating OAuth Access Token Abuse by Collusion Networks
Shehroze Farooqi, Fareed Zaffar, Nektarios Leontiadis, Zubair Shafiq
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2017.
Best Paper Award
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The Ad Wars: Retrospective Measurement and Analysis of Anti-Adblock Filter Lists
Umar Iqbal, Zubair Shafiq, Zhiyun Qian
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2017.
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Peering vs. Transit: Performance Comparison of Peering and Transit Interconnections
Adnan Ahmed, Zubair Shafiq, Harkeerat Bedi, Amir Khakpour
IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2017.
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Suffering from Buffering? Detecting QoE Impairments in Live Video Streams
Adnan Ahmed, Zubair Shafiq, Harkeerat Bedi, Amir Khakpour
IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2017.
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Multipath TCP Traffic Diversion Attacks and Countermeasures
Ali Munir, Zhiyun Qian, Zubair Shafiq, Alex Liu, Franck Le
IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2017.
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Accurate Detection of Automatically Spun Content via Stylometric Analysis
Usman Shahid, Shehroze Farooqi, Raza Ahmad, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan, Fareed Zaffar
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2017.
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Measuring, Characterizing, and Detecting Facebook Like Farms
Muhammad Ikram, Lucky Onwuzurike, Shehroze Farooqi, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Arik Friedman, Guillaume Jourjon, Dali Kaafar, Zubair Shafiq
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, 2017.
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Characterizing and Modeling Patching Practices of Industrial Control Systems
Brandon Wang, Xiaoye Li, Leandro P. de Aguiar, Daniel S. Menasche, Zubair Shafiq
ACM SIGMETRICS, 2017.
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Detecting Anti Ad-blockers in the Wild
Muhammad Haris Mughees, Zhiyun Qian, and Zubair Shafiq
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2017.
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Distributed Load Balancing in Key-Value Networked Caches
Sikder Huq, Zubair Shafiq, Sukumar Ghosh, Amir Khakpour, Harkeerat Bedi
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2017.
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Revisiting The American Voter on Twitter
Huyen Le, G.R. Boynton, Yelena Mejova, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2017.
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Bumps and Bruises: Mining Presidential Campaign Announcements on Twitter
Huyen Le, G.R. Boynton, Yelena Mejova, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan
ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT), 2017.
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Scalable News Slant Measurement Using Twitter
Huyen Le, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan
AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2017.
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Characterizing Key Stakeholders in an Online Black-Hat Marketplace
Shehroze Farooqi, Muhammad Ikram, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Arik Friedman, Guillaume Jourjon, Dali Kaafar, Zubair Shafiq, Fareed Zaffar
IEEE/APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 2017.
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A Traffic Flow Approach to Early Detection of Gathering Events: Comprehensive Results
Amin Khezerlou, Xun Zhou, Lufan Li, Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu, Fan Zhang
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2017.
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Optimizing Internet Transit Routing for Content Delivery Networks
Faraz Ahmed, Zubair Shafiq, Amir Khakpour, Alex X. Liu
IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2016.
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Malware Slums: Measurement and Analysis of Malware on Traffic Exchanges
Salman Yousaf, Umar Iqbal, Shehroze Farooqi, Raza Ahmad, Zubair Shafiq, Fareed Zaffar
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2016.
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QoE Analysis of a Large-Scale Live Video Streaming Event
Adnan Ahmed, Zubair Shafiq, Amir Khakpour
ACM SIGMETRICS, 2016.
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The Internet is For Porn: Measurement and Analysis of Online Adult Traffic
Faraz Ahmed, Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2016.
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Characterizing Caching Workload of a Large Commercial Content Delivery Network
Zubair Shafiq, Amir R. Khakpour, Alex X. Liu
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2016.
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What Campaigns Become as Social Media Become the Infrastructure of Political Communication
G.R. Boynton, Huyen Le, Yelena Mejova, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan
Social Media and Politics, Vol 1, pp. 21-40, 2016.
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A Traffic Flow Approach to Early Detection of Gathering Events
Xun Zhou, Amin Vahedian Khezerlou, Alex Liu, Zubair Shafiq, Fan Zhang
ACM SIGSPATIAL, 2016.
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The Rich and the Poor: A Markov Decision Process Approach to Optimizing Taxi Driver Revenue Efficiency
Huigui Rong, Xun Zhou, Chang Yang, Zubair Shafiq, Alex Liu
ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2016.
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Characterizing and Optimizing Cellular Network Performance during Crowded Events
Zubair Shafiq, Lusheng Ji, Alex X. Liu, Jeffrey Pang, Shobha Venkataraman, Jia Wang
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 24(3): 1308-1321, 2016.
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Geospatial and Temporal Dynamics of Application Usage in Cellular Data Networks
Zubair Shafiq, Lusheng Ji, Alex X. Liu, Jeffrey Pang, Jia Wang
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 14(7): 1369-1381, 2015.
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Paying for Likes? Understanding Facebook Like Fraud Using Honeypots
Emiliano De Cristofaro, Arik Friedmam, Guillaume Jourjon, Dali Kaafar, Zubair Shafiq
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2014.
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During Grad School
Understanding the Impact of Network Dynamics on Mobile Video User Engagement
Zubair Shafiq, Jeffrey Erman, Lusheng Ji, Alex X. Liu, Jeffrey Pang, Jia Wang
ACM SIGMETRICS, 2014.
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Revisiting Caching in Content Delivery Networks
Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu, Amir Khakpour
ACM SIGMETRICS, 2014.
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A First Look at Cellular Network Performance during Crowded Events
Zubair Shafiq, Lusheng Ji, Alex X. Liu, Jeffrey Pang, Shobha Venkataraman, Jia Wang
ACM SIGMETRICS, 2013.
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Who are You Talking to? Breaching Privacy in Encrypted IM Networks
Muhammad U. Ilyas, Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu, Hayder Radha
IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2013
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Cross-Path Inference Attacks on Multipath TCP
Zubair Shafiq, Franck Le, Mudhakar Srivatsa, Alex X. Liu
ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), 2013.
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Is News Sharing on Twitter Ideologically Biased?
Jonathan Morgan, Cliff Lampe, Zubair Shafiq
ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2013.
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Large Scale Measurement and Characterization of Cellular Machine-to-Machine Traffic
Zubair Shafiq, Lusheng Ji, Alex X. Liu, Jeffrey Pang, Jia Wang
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 21(6): 1960-1973, 2013.
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Identifying Leaders and Followers in Online Social Networks
Zubair Shafiq, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Alex X. Liu, Hayder Radha
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 31(9): 618-628, 2013.
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A Distributed Algorithm for Identifying Information Hubs in Social Networks
Muhammad U. Ilyas, Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu, Hayder Radha
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 31(9): 629-640, 2013.
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TCAMChecker: A Software Approach to the Error Detection and Correction of TCAM-based Networking Systems
Zubair Shafiq, Chad Meiners, Alex Liu, Ke Shen, Zheng Qin
Springer Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM), 21(3): 335-352, 2013.
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A First Look at Cellular Machine-to-Machine Traffic
Zubair Shafiq, Lusheng Ji, Alex X. Liu, Jeffrey Pang, Jia Wang
ACM SIGMETRICS, 2012.
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A Semantics Aware Approach to Automated Reverse Engineering Unknown Protocols
Yipeng Wang, Xiaochun Yun, Zubair Shafiq, Liyan Wang, Alex X. Liu, Zhibin Zhang, Danfeng(Daphne) Yao, Yongzheng Zhang, Li Guo
IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2012.
Best Paper Award
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A Large Scale Exploratory Analysis of Software Vulnerability Life Cycles
Muhammad Shahzad, Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2012.
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Characterizing Geospatial Dynamics of Application Usage in a 3G Cellular Data Network
Zubair Shafiq, Lusheng Ji, Alex X. Liu, Jeffrey Pang, Jia Wang
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2012.
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Characterizing and Modeling Internet Traffic Dynamics of Cellular Devices
Zubair Shafiq, Lusheng Ji, Alex X. Liu, Jia Wang
ACM SIGMETRICS, 2011.
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A Distributed and Privacy-Preserving Algorithm for Identifying Information Hubs in Social Networks
Muhammad U. Ilyas, Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu, Hayder Radha
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2011.
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Before Grad School
PE-Miner: Mining Structural Information to Detect Malicious Executables in Realtime
Zubair Shafiq, Syeda Momina Tabish, Fauzan Mirza, Muddassar Farooq
Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), 2009.
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Using Spatio-Temporal Information in API Calls with Machine Learning Algorithms for Malware Detection and Analysis
Faraz Ahmed, Haider Hameed, Zubair Shafiq, Muddassar Farooq
ACM CCS Workshop on Security and Artificial Intelligence (AISec), 2009.
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Malware Detection using Statistical Analysis of Byte-Level File Content
Syeda Momina Tabish, Zubair Shafiq, Muddassar Farooq
ACM SIGKDD Workshop on CyberSecurity and Intelligence Informatics (CSI-KDD), 2009.
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PE-Probe: Leveraging Packer Detection and Structural Information to Detect Malicious Portable Executables
Zubair Shafiq, Syeda Momina Tabish, Muddassar Farooq
Virus Bulletin Conference, 2009.
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Evolvable Malware
Sadia Noreen, Shafaq Murtaza, Zubair Shafiq, Muddassar Farooq
ACM SIGEVO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 2009.
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A Sense of ‘Danger’ for Windows Processes
Salman Manzoor, Zubair Shafiq, Momina Tabish, Muddassar Farooq
International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, 2009.
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Embedded Malware Detection using Markov n-grams
Zubair Shafiq, Syed Ali Khayam, Muddassar Farooq
Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA), 2008.
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Improving Accuracy of Immune Inspired Malware Detectors using Intelligent Features
Zubair Shafiq, Syed Ali Khayam, Muddassar Farooq
ACM SIGEVO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 2008.
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Fuzzy Case Based Reasoning for Facial Expression Recognition
Aasia Khanum, Muid Mufti, M. Y. Javed, Zubair Shafiq
Elsevier Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 2009
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