Yinfang CHEN

Hi! I am Yinfang Chen (陈胤方), a second-year Computer Science Ph.D. student “watched” by my “cornfield-watchman-professor” Tianyin Xu at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I got my Master of Computing degree from the School of Computing of the National University of Singapore, and received my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology. My research interest is in system reliability and system security.

news

Feb 1, 2023	Currently, I am on leave due to an visa issue:( and expect to get back to UIUC in 2023 Fall..
Dec 24, 2022	Our work Rainmaker has been accepted by NSDI’23! Thanks everyone in the project group!

selected publications

arXiv

Empowering Practical Root Cause Analysis by Large Language Models for Cloud Incidents

Yinfang Chen, Huaibing Xie, Minghua Ma, Yu Kang, Xin Gao, Liu Shi, Yunjie Cao, Xuedong Gao, Hao Fan, and 7 more authors

2023

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@misc{chen2023empowering,
  title = {Empowering Practical Root Cause Analysis by Large Language Models for Cloud Incidents},
  author = {Chen, Yinfang and Xie, Huaibing and Ma, Minghua and Kang, Yu and Gao, Xin and Shi, Liu and Cao, Yunjie and Gao, Xuedong and Fan, Hao and Wen, Ming and Zeng, Jun and Ghosh, Supriyo and Zhang, Xuchao and Lin, Qingwei and Rajmohan, Saravan and Zhang, Dongmei},
  year = {2023},
  eprint = {2305.15778},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.SE},
}

NSDI 2023

Push-Button Reliability Testing for Cloud-Backed Applications with Rainmaker

Yinfang Chen, Xudong Sun, Suman Nath, Ze Yang, and Tianyin Xu

In Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Apr 2023

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@inproceedings{chen2023push-button,
  author = {Chen, Yinfang and Sun, Xudong and Nath, Suman and Yang, Ze and Xu, Tianyin},
  title = {Push-Button Reliability Testing for Cloud-Backed Applications with Rainmaker},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation},
  year = {2023},
  month = apr,
  url = {https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/push-button-reliability-testing-for-cloud-backed-applications-with-rainmaker/},
}

S&P 2023

SoK: History is a Vast Early Warning System: Auditing the Provenance of System Intrusions

Muhammad Adil Inam, Yinfang Chen, Akul Goyal, Jason Liu, Jaron Mink, Noor Michael, Sneha Gaur, Adam Bates, and Wajih Ul Hassan

In Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2022

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@inproceedings{inam2022sok,
  title = {SoK: History is a Vast Early Warning System: Auditing the Provenance of System Intrusions},
  author = {Inam, Muhammad Adil and Chen, Yinfang and Goyal, Akul and Liu, Jason and Mink, Jaron and Michael, Noor and Gaur, Sneha and Bates, Adam and Hassan, Wajih Ul},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy},
  pages = {307--325},
  year = {2022},
  month = may,
  organization = {IEEE Computer Society},
}

S&P 2022

Shadewatcher: Recommendation-guided cyber threat analysis using system audit records

Jun Zeng, Xiang Wang, Jiahao Liu, Yinfang Chen, Zhenkai Liang, Tat-Seng Chua, and Zheng Leong Chua

In Proceedings of the 43th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2022

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@inproceedings{zengy2022shadewatcher,
  title = {Shadewatcher: Recommendation-guided cyber threat analysis using system audit records},
  author = {Zeng, Jun and Wang, Xiang and Liu, Jiahao and Chen, Yinfang and Liang, Zhenkai and Chua, Tat-Seng and Chua, Zheng Leong},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 43th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy},
  pages = {489--506},
  year = {2022},
  month = may,
  organization = {IEEE},
}

NDSS 2021

WATSON: Abstracting Behaviors from Audit Logs via Aggregation of Contextual Semantics.

Jun Zeng, Zheng Leong Chua, Yinfang Chen, Kaihang Ji, Zhenkai Liang, and Jian Mao

In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, Feb 2021

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@inproceedings{zeng2021watson,
  title = {WATSON: Abstracting Behaviors from Audit Logs via Aggregation of Contextual Semantics.},
  author = {Zeng, Jun and Chua, Zheng Leong and Chen, Yinfang and Ji, Kaihang and Liang, Zhenkai and Mao, Jian},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium},
  year = {2021},
  month = feb,
}