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(8/2011) Barath Raghavan
and I received a Best Paper award for our GreenNet workshop paper, Networking in the Long Emergency.
(12/2010) I am one of two recipients of this year's UC San Diego CSE
Departmental Dissertation Award.
(6/2010) Vacationing in China. Among the stops was a return trip to the
Panda Research Center
in Chengdu.
(6/2010) I have graduated from UC San Diego and will be joining UC Berkeley as a postdoc this July.
(2/2010) Shooting a Chinese-style bow at the archery range.
(10/2009) An homage to a classic game -- my homemade
Halloween costume.
(12/2008) A trip to India for SysNet alum Diwaker Gupta's wedding.
(9/2008) My first attempt at cooking pasta with fresh tomato sauce.
(1/2007) Other random
pictures from the past year.
(10/2006) Trip to IMC in
Rio de Janeiro.
(9/2006) Trip to Pisa, and a
5-hour excursion to Florence.
(6/2006-8/2006) Trips to
Chicago,
Toronto, and
Kuala
Lumpur
for judging (with a side trip to Singapore).
(3/2006) The
Perfect Sushi Dinner.
(12/2005) A trip to
Hanoi, Vietnam
to judge at The 8th World Wushu Championships...
(12/2005) Followed by a trip to
Chengdu, China
to see some pandas and visit some historical sites.
Research
My research interests include computer systems and networking with an emphasis
on network security, as well as the application of machine learning to
problems in security. Currently, I am exploring the synthesis of systems and
large-scale machine learning techniques to enable reliable decision making
over big data.
Projects
Recent work
Resilient Distributed Datasets: A Fault-Tolerant Abstraction for In-Memory Cluster Computing
Matei Zaharia, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Tathagata Das, Ankur Dave, Justin Ma, Murphy McCauley, Michael J. Franklin, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica,
Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2012.
The Energy and Emergy of the Internet
Barath Raghavan and Justin Ma,
Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), November 2011.
Scaling the Mobile Millennium System in the Cloud
Timothy Hunter, Teodor Moldovan, Matei Zaharia, Samy Merzgui, Justin Ma, Alexandre M. Bayen, Pieter Abbeel, Michael J. Franklin,
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), October 2011.
Managing Data Transfers in Computer Clusters with Orchestra
Mosharaf Chowdhury, Matei Zaharia, Justin Ma, Michael I. Jordan, Ion Stoica,
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, August 2011.
Networking in the Long Emergency [Best Paper]
Barath Raghavan and Justin Ma,
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Energy and IT (GreenNet), August 2011.
Design and Evaluation of a Real-Time URL Spam Filtering Service
Kurt Thomas, Chris Grier, Justin Ma, Vern Paxson, Dawn Song,
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2011.
Learning to Detect Malicious URLs
Justin Ma, Lawrence K. Saul, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker,
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology,
Vol. 2, No. 3, 2011.
Privacy-Preserving Network Forensics
Mikhail Afanasyev, Tadayoshi Kohno, Justin Ma, Nick Murphy, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, and Geoffrey M. Voelker,
Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, 54(5), May 2011.
Exploiting Feature Covariance in High-Dimensional Online Learning
Justin Ma, Alex Kulesza, Mark Dredze, Koby Crammer, Lawrence K. Saul, and Fernando Pereira,
Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and
Statistics (AISTATS), pages 493-500, Sardinia, Italy, May 2010.
Neon: System Support for Derived Data Management
Qing Zhang, John McCullough, Justin Ma, Nabil Schear, Michael Vrable,
Amin Vahdat, Alex C. Snoeren, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage,
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual
Execution Environments (VEE), Pittsburgh, PA, March 2010.
Identifying Suspicious URLs: An Application of Large-Scale Online Learning
Justin Ma, Lawrence K. Saul, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker,
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), pages 681-688, Montreal, Quebec, June 2009.
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Beyond Blacklists: Learning to Detect Malicious Web Sites from Suspicious URLs
Justin Ma, Lawrence K. Saul, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker,
Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Conference, pages 1245-1253, Paris, France, June 2009.
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List of Publications
In a nutshell...
I am currently a software engineer in the security group at Google.
From 2010--2012, I was a postdoc in the Computer Science
Division at UC Berkeley. I am
supervised by Michael Jordan
and am working closely with Ion
Stoica and Michael
Franklin as part of the AMPLab.
From 2004-2010, I was a PhD student advised by Stefan Savage and Geoff Voelker (Systems and Networking), as
well as by Lawrence Saul (Artificial Intelligence) in the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering at UCSD. From 2001-2004,
I was an undergrad at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I earned
my bachelor degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics.
