Liang Zhang

Ph.D. student

College of Computer and Information Science
Northeastern University
202 West Village H
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

Email: liang at ccs dot neu dot edu
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I am a fifth year Ph.D. student at Northeastern University. My advisor is Alan Mislove. I earned my B.S. in computer science from South China Agricultural University. My research spans measurement, security, and systems building, and my recent work is centered on cloud computing, aiming to build a new computing model for long-lived but mostly-idle applications.

Publications

• Picocenter: Supporting long-lived, mostly-idle applications in cloud environments
  Liang Zhang, James Litton, Frank Cangialosi, Theophilus Benson, Dave Levin, and Alan Mislove
  In Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys'16), London, United Kingdom, Apr 2016
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• An End-to-End Measurement of Certificate Revocation in the Web's PKI
  Yabing Liu, Will Tome, Liang Zhang, David Choffnes, Dave Levin, Bruce Maggs, Alan Mislove, Aaron Schulman, and Christo Wilson
  In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'15), Tokyo, Japan, October 2015
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• Analysis of SSL certificate reissues and revocations in the wake of Heartbleed
  Liang Zhang, David Choffnes, Tudor Dumitras, Dave Levin, Alan Mislove, Aaron Schulman, and Christo Wilson
  In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'14), Vancouver, Canada, November 2014
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• Building Confederated Web-based Services with Priv.io
  Liang Zhang and Alan Mislove
  In Proceedings of the 1st ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN'13), Boston, MA, October 2013
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• Maygh: Building a CDN from client web browsers
  Liang Zhang, Fangfei Zhou, Alan Mislove, and Ravi Sundaram
  In Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys'13), Prague, Czech Republic, April 2013
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• WebCloud: Recruiting social network users to assist in content distribution
  Fangfei Zhou, Liang Zhang, Eric Franco, Alan Mislove, Richard Revis and Ravi Sundaram
  In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA'12), Cambridge, MA, August 2012
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• LensList: Browsing and Navigating Long Linear Information Structures
  Hongzhi Song, Yu Qi, Yun Liang, Hongxing Peng and Liang Zhang
  In Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Human Interface, Beijing, P.R. China, July 2007

Posters and Journals

• Picocenter: Supporting long-lived, mostly-idle applications in cloud environments
  Liang Zhang, James Litton, Frank Cangialosi, Theophilus Benson, Dave Levin and Alan Mislove. Poster, EuroSys 2016, London, United Kingdom
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• Crowdsourcing functions of the living city from Twitter and Foursquare data
  Xiaolu Zhou and Liang Zhang. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Jan 2016
  [ DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2015.1128852 ]

• Picocenter: Supporting long-lived, mostly-idle applications in cloud environments
  Liang Zhang, Frank Cangialosi, Theophilus Benson, Dave Levin and Alan Mislove. Poster, SoCC 2015, Big Island, Hawaii
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• Maygh: Building a CDN from client web browsers.
  Liang Zhang, Fangfei Zhou, Alan Mislove and Ravi Sundaram. Poster, EuroSys 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
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• Cursor caging: enhancing focus targeting in interactive fisheye views.
  HongZhi Song, Yi Fu, Liang Zhang, XiaoLong Zhang. Science China Information Sciences 56, no. 5 (2013): 1-16

• WebCloud: Enabling More Direct Content Exchange Between Web Clients.
  Fangfei Zhou, Liang Zhang, Eric J. Franco, Richard Revis, Alan Mislove and Ravi Sundaram. Poster and demo, NSDI 2011, Boston, MA
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