Shobha Venkataraman


Publications

Talks


Publications

  • 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.
 

Talks

Coming soon!