Ennan Zhai

• Ph.D. student (since 2011)
• Department of Computer Science
• Yale University, New Haven, CT
• Email: ennan.zhai (at) yale.edu

Intro

I am a PhD student of Computer Science Department at Yale University, and working with Prof. Bryan Ford in DeDiS group. My research interests include distributed systems and operating systems. My current research aims to build reliable and secure cloud systems. Prior to joining Yale, I was a research assistant of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a master student of Peking University. During that time, I mainly focused on building secure collaborative systems (e.g., Peer-to-Peer network-based systems, wireless sensor networks and social network-based systems).

Selected Publications

(My full paper list could be found at DBLP)

• A Multi-Compositional Enforcement on Information Flow Security.
  Cong Sun, Ennan Zhai, Zhong Chen, and Jianfeng Ma.
  In proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS'11), 2011. (Acceptance Rate: 23%).
  [PDF]. Full version available as [Technical Report].

• Sorcery: Overcoming Deceptive Votes in P2P Content Sharing Systems.
  Ennan Zhai, Huiping Sun, Sihan Qing, and Zhong Chen.
  In Journal Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (PPNA), Volume 4, Issue 2 (2011), Page 178-191.
  [PDF].

• Sorcery: Could We Make P2P Content Sharing Systems Robust to Deceivers?
  Ennan Zhai, Ruichuan Chen, Zhuhua Cai, Long Zhang, Eng Keong Lua, Huiping Sun, Sihan Qing, Liyong Tang, and Zhong Chen.
  In proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P'09), 2009. (Acceptance Rate: 19%). Awarded Outstanding Paper.
  [PDF]. [Talk Slides].

• SpamResist: Making Peer-to-Peer Tagging Systems Robust to Spam.
  Ennan Zhai, Ruichuan Chen, Eng Keong Lua, Long Zhang, Huiping Sun, Zhuhua Cai, Sihan Qing, and Zhong Chen.
  In proceedings of the 52nd IEEE Global Communications Conference (GlobeCom'09), 2009. Awarded International Student Travel Grant (Rate: 7%).
  [PDF]. Full version available as [Technical Report]. [Talk Slides].

• SpamClean: Towards Spam-free Tagging Systems.
  Ennan Zhai, Huiping Sun, Sihan Qing, and Zhong Chen.
  In proceedings of International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom'09), 2009. (Acceptance Rate: 9%).
  [PDF]. [Talk Slides].

Teaching Experience

• Fall 2012 Teaching Assistant, Building Decentralized Systems, Yale University
• Summer 2010 Teaching Assistant, Secure Program Design, Peking University
• Fall 2009 Teaching Assistant, Network and Information Security, Peking University
• Summer 2009 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Information Technology, Peking University
• Summer 2009 Teaching Assistant, Data Recovery and Computer Forensics, Peking University
• Summer 2009 Teaching Assistant, Network and Information Security, Peking University
• Fall 2008 Teaching Assistant, Applied Cryptography, Peking University
• Fall 2008 Teaching Assistant, Network and Information Security, Peking University