Shobha Venkataraman

• Identifying Diverse Behaviors of Smartphone Apps [pdf]
  with Qiang Xu, Jeffrey Erman, Alexandre Gerber, Z. Morley Mao and Jeffrey Pang.
  In Proceedings of ACM International Measurement Conference (IMC) 2011, November 2011


• BitShred: Feature Hashing Malware for Scalable Triage and Semantic Analysis [pdf]
  with Jiyong Jang and David Brumley.
  In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2011, October 2011


• Large-scale App-based Reporting of Customer Problems in Cellular Networks: Potential and Limitations [pdf]
  with Yu Jin, Nick Duffield, Alexandre Gerber, Patrick Haffner, Wen-ling Hsu, Guy Jacobson, Subhabrata Sen and Zhi-li Zhang.
  In ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Measurements Up the STack (W-MUST) 2011, August 2011


• Internet-Scale Visualization and Detection of Performance Events [pdf]
  with Jeffrey Pang, Subhabrata Sen and Oliver Spatscheck.
  In Usenix Annual Technical Conference 2011, June 2011


• Making Sense of Customer Tickets in Cellular Networks [pdf]
  with Yu Jin, Alexandre Gerber, Patrick Haffner, Wen-Ling Hsu, Guy Jacobson, Subhabrata Sen and Zhi-li Zhang.
  In Proceedings of IEEE Infocom Mini-Conference 2011, April 2011


• Speed Testing without Speed Tests: Estimating Achievable Download Speed from Passive Measurements [pdf]
  with Alexandre Gerber, Jeffrey Pang and Oliver Spatscheck.
  In Proceedings of ACM International Measurement Conference (IMC) 2010, November 2010


• Tracking Dynamic Sources of Malicious Activity at Internet-Scale [pdf]
  with Avrim Blum, Dawn Song, Subhabrata Sen and Oliver Spatscheck
  In Proceedings of Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2009, December 2009


• Limits of Learning-based Signature Generation with Adversaries [pdf]
  with Avrim Blum and Dawn Song
  In Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS) 2008, February 2008


• Exploiting Network Structure for Proactive Spam Mitigation [pdf]
  with Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck, Patrick Haffner and Dawn Song
  In Usenix Security 2007, August 2007


• Detecting Stealthy Attacks Using Online Histograms [pdf]
  with Yan Gao, Yao Zhao, Robert Schweller, Yan Chen, Dawn Song and Ming-Yang Kao
  In International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS '07), June 2007


• FiG: Automatic Fingerprint Generation [pdf]
  with Juan Caballero, Pongsin Poosankam, Min Gyung Kang, Dawn Song and Avrim Blum
  In Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS) 2007, February 2007


• Black-box Anomaly Detection: Is it Utopian? [pdf]
  with Juan Caballero, Dawn Song, Avrim Blum and Jennifer Yates.
  In Fifth Workshop on Hot Topics in Networking (HotNets-V), 2006


• New Streaming Algorithms for Fast Detection of Superspreaders [ps]
  with Dawn Song, Phillip Gibbons and Avrim Blum.
  In Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2005


• Detection of Interactive Stepping Stones. [pdf]
  with Avrim Blum and Dawn Song
  In Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), September 2004


• Efficient Algorithms for Factored MDPs. [ps]
  with Carlos Guestrin, Daphne Koller and Ronald Parr.
  In Journal of Artificial Intelligence (JAIR), Volumer 19, pp 399-468, 2003.
  Winner of 2007 IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Award. (Awarded to an outstanding paper published in JAIR in the preceding 5 calendar years)
  


• Context-Specific Multiagent Coordination and Planning With Factored MDPs. [pdf]
  with Carlos Guestrin and Daphne Koller. AAAI-2002, July 2002.
  
  • Previous version [pdf] in AAAI Spring Symposium on Collaborative and Learning Agents, March 2002.
  • My undergraduate honors thesis version [pdf], June 2002.

• Incentive Mechanisms for Smoothing Out a Focused Demand for Network Resources. [pdf]
  with Kevin Leyton-Brown, Ryan Porter, Balaji Prabhakar and Yoav Shoham
  Computer Communications 26, 2003.
  
  • Short version [ps] in ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, October 2001.