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I am a PhD student in System group. This is my second year in the program. My advisor is Professor Dan Wallach.

Office: Duncan Hall 3011, Lab: 3040

Email: xzl rice edu

Research Interests

• Network Security
• Information Retrieval
• Web Search Analysis

Projects

Quiltwork

Quiltwork Project Home

My Quiltwork Home

• References
  • Lobo Java Web Browser
  • Rivest's S-expression

Courses I have taken or am taking at Rice Univ

Fall 10

• COMP 425 COMPUTER SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE
• COMP 571 BIOINFORMATICS: SEQUENCE
• COMP 590 COMPUTER SCIENCE PROJECTS
• COMP 600 GRADUATE SEMINAR
• COMP 800 GRADUATE RESEARCH
• STAT 280 ELEMENTARY APPLIED STATISTICS

Spring 09

• COMP 429 INTRO TO COMPUTER NETWORKS
• COMP 430 INTRO TO DATABASE SYSTEMS
• COMP 520 DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
• COMP 620 GRAD SEM-DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
• COMP 600 GRADUATE SEMINAR
• COMP 800 GRADUATE RESEARCH

Fall 09

• COMP 527 Computer Systems Security
• COMP 482 Design and Analysis of Algorithms and yahoo group for COMP 482
• COMP 600 GRADUATE SEMINAR
• COMP 800 GRADUATE RESEARCH

TA

• COMP 430 Introduction to Database Systems

My Technical Memo

• Eclipse Tips
• Ubuntu 9.10 setting logs and tips
  • VMWare Server 2.0
  • Multiple Boot Systems Time Conflicts

Useful Links

Academic

• Professor Dan Wallach
• Computer Security Lab: Rice University

Conferences

• Conferences
  • USENIX Security Symposium
  • USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI)
  • USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
• IEEE Security & Privacy
• Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
• ACM SOSP: Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
• ACM SIGSAC: ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control
  • ACM CCS: Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Security reporting systems

• BugTraq
• Slashdot
• Technical Cyber Security Alerts
• Risks digest

Javascript

• Online javascript beautifier
• Online HTML formatter

Second Life

• LSL Wiki

Personal

• Xun