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I am currently seeking Summer 2025 internship opportunities. You can download my CV here.

General Information

Name Yizhe Zhang
Email yz6me[at]virginia[dot]edu
Summary Ph.D. candidate at University of Virginia, specializing in network security and machine learning.

Education

  • 2019 - Present
    PhD - Computer Engineering
    University of Virginia, Virginia, US
  • 2016 - 2018
    MSc - Computer Engineering
    University of Virginia, Virginia, US
  • 2011 - 2015
    BSc - Physics
    East Chine Normal University, Shanghai, China

Research Experience

  • 2019 - present
    Graduate Research Assistant
    University of Virginia, Virginia, US
    • Research focus: network security, machine learning, and internet measurement.
    • Enhance network security in real-world networks using machine learning, time-series analysis and graph-based techniques.
    • Conduct comprehensive assessments of network security vulnerabilities and privacy malpractices.
    • Leverage large language models (LLMs) to tackle practical issues related to network security and privacy.
  • 2017 - 2018
    Graduate Research Assistant
    University of Virginia, Virginia, US
    • Research experience: robotics, cloud, network.

Internships

  • 09/2015 - 12/2015
    Software Engineer Intern
    Maker Collider, Shanghai, China
    • Smart IoT device software development using Arduino.

Technical Skills

  • Knowledgeable
    Network and Cybersecurity
    • Network protocols, DNS, TLS, certificate PKI.
    • Malware and botnet detection.
    • Intrusion and anomaly detection.
    • Internet of Things (IoT) security.
    • Traffic analysis, monitoring, and profiling.
    • Privacy-preserving network traffic anonymization.
  • Experienced
    Machine Learning and Data Science
    • Applied ML/DL models in network security and other applications.
    • Large-scale network traffic analysis.
    • Time-series and graph analysis.
    • Applied large language models (LLMs) for time-series forecasting.
    • End-to-end large-scale data ETL processes.
  • Coding
    • Python (Sklearn, JupyterLab, Pandas, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Numpy, PySpark), Spark, SQL, Git, C++
  • Network
    • Wireshark, OpenSSL, Nginx, Zeek(Bro)
  • Others
    • Linux, Neo4j, Docker, Windows, AWS, SLURM

Recent Publications

  • See the Publications page for a full list of publications.
  • IMC 2024
    Exploring the Ecosystem of DNS HTTPS Resource Records: An End-to-End Perspective.
  • IMC 2024
    Mutual TLS in Practice: A Deep Dive into Certificate Configurations and Privacy Issues.
  • SPW 2024
    Intercepting Bluetooth Traffic from Wearable Health Devices
  • ACSAC 2023
    Global Analysis with Aggregation-based Beaconing Detection across Large Campus Networks.