About Me
I am a Computer Science PhD student advised by Profs. Stefan Savage and Geoff Voelker at the University of California, San Diego. My research interests include network security, Internet measurement, and network/browser fingerprinting. I build measurement and analysis systems that turn messy Internet-scale data into useful evidence about security and abuse. I am affiliated with the Sysnet and CryptoSec research groups, the Center for Networked Systems (CNS), and the Center for Healcare Cybersecurity at UCSD.
Before joining UCSD, I was a Computer Science and Philosophy double major at Williams College, where I worked with Prof. Daniel Barowy on programming languages and formal methods. Within the philosophical domain, I am fascinated by epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind. I am heavily influenced by the philosophical traditions of skepticism and relativism. Some of my favorite philosophers are David Hume, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Daniel Dennett.
Publications
The Case of the Missing Cases: Inferring Sealed U.S. Federal Cases
Ye Shu, Elisa Luo, Paul Chung, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage
In: ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2026 (IMC 2026). [PDF (Accepted Version)]Lost in Translation: Text Message Spoofing via Email
Sumanth Rao, Ye Shu, Stefan Savage, Aaron Schulman, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Enze Liu
In: IEEE Security & Privacy 2026. Won Distinguished Paper Award. [PDF (IEEE Xplore)] [PDF (Accepted Version)]Poster: When Blocks Go Missing: The Timeliness and Trustworthiness of Blockchain RPC Providers
Ye Shu, Deian Stefan, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Enze Alex Liu.
Poster at ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2025 (IMC 2025); also presented at the IMC Student Workshop 2025. [PDF (ACM DL)] [PDF (Accepted Version)]RESTAssured: Formally Verifying RESTful API Specification Conformance in Web Applications
Ye Shu. Advised by Daniel Barowy.
Undergraduate Honors Thesis. Williams College. 2024. Won Highest Honors and the Goldberg Colloquium Prize for Best CS Thesis Defense. [PDF] [Williams College Library]SureVeyor: A Language for High-Quality Online Surveys
Ye Shu, Emmie Hine, Hugo Hua, Emery Berger, Daniel Barowy.
Presented At: PLATEAU 2024. [Workshop] [Contact me for paper]Binary Reed-Solomon Coding Based Distributed Storage Scheme in Information-Centric Fog Networks
Ye Shu, Mianxiong Dong, Kaoru Ota, Jun Wu, Siyi Liao.
In: IEEE CAMAD 2018. [Conference] [PDF (IEEE Xplore)]
Recent News
- [] I am interning as an Applied Scientist at Amazon with the Special Projects and Investigations (SPI) team to help detect fraud and abuse at scale on Amazon.com.
- [] I am TAing for CSE 127: Computer Security this fall.
- [] I am featured in this CRA-E Undergraduate Research Highlights article in which I talk about my undergraduate research experience and my SureVeyor project.
- [] I started my PhD studies at UCSD!
- [] I graduated cum laude from Williams College with highest honors in Computer Science! I was also inducted into Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society.
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- [] I defended my thesis, in which I used symbolic execution to formally verify conformance of Express.JS programs to OpenAPI specifications. The presentation was awarded Sam Goldberg Colloquium Prize in Computer Science for best thesis defense.
- [] I was selected for an Honorable Mention in the 2024 Computing Research Association (CRA)'s Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award (URA)!
- [] My Sureveyor paper has been accepted to the workshop PLATEAU 2024! I am going to present it in person at UC Berkeley this February.
Community & Academic Service
- ACM Internet Measurement Conference/IMC (Shadow Technical Program Committee): 2026
- USENIX Security (Artifact Evaluation Committee): 2026
- ACM CoNext (Artifact Evaluation Committee): 2026
- ACM PLDI (Student Volunteer): 2022
- CSE Department Representative to UCSD Graduate & Professional Student Association (GPSA) Council : 2026-Present
- Member of UCSD CSE Graduate Student Council (GSC) : 2025-Present
- Elected Member of Williams CS Student Activities/Advisory Committee (CoSSAC): Academic Years 2022-2023, 2023-2024
- Mentor for Williams Underrepresented Identities in CS (UnICS): 2022-2024