Chaoyi Lu(陆超逸)

Postdoctoral researcher, Tsinghua University
FIT 4-204, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Website: https://chaoyi.lu
Email: luchaoyi [at] tsinghua.edu.cn

Education & Employment

  • 2022 - Present: Posdoctoral researcher, Tsinghua University (Reporting to Prof. Haixin Duan)
  • 2017 - 2022:PhD, Tsinghua University (Advisor: Prof. Jianping Wu)
  • 2013 - 2017:BSc, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Research Interests

  • Network security
  • Internet measurement

Publications

Conference & Workshop Papers

  • Summary: 9 papers published at top venues: NDSS (‘21), IMC (‘19), USENIX Security (‘23, ‘21, ‘20, ‘18), CCS (‘21, ‘20a, ‘20b)
  1. [USENIX Security ‘23] Xiang Li, Chaoyi Lu, Baojun Liu, Qifan Zhang, Zhou Li, Haixin Duan, and Qi Li. The Maginot Line: Attacking the Boundary of DNS Caching Protection. To appear in Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, Anaheim, CA, USA, August 2023.

  2. [EthiCS ‘22] Yiming Zhang, Mingxuan Liu, Mingming Zhang, Chaoyi Lu, and Haixin Duan. Ethics in Security Research: Visions, Reality, and Paths Forward. Accepted to the 1st International Workshop on Ethics in Computer Security (co-located with IEEE EuroSP), Genoa, Italy, June 2022.

  3. [PAM ‘22] Fenglu Zhang, Chaoyi Lu, Baojun Liu, Haixin Duan, and Ying Liu. Measuring the Practical Effect of DNS Root Server Instances: A China-Wide Case Study. In Proceedings of the 23rd Passive and Active Measurement Conference, Virtual event, March 2022.

  4. [CCS ‘21] Yiming Zhang, Baojun Liu, Chaoyi Lu, Zhou Li, Haixin Duan, Jiachen Li, and Zaifeng Zhang. Rusted Anchors: A National Client-Side View of Hidden Root CAs in the Web PKI Ecosystem. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Virtual event, November 2021.

  5. [NDSS ‘21] Chaoyi Lu, Baojun Liu, Yiming Zhang, Zhou Li, Fenglu Zhang, Haixin Duan, Ying Liu, Joann Qiongna Chen, Jinjin Liang, Zaifeng Zhang, Shuang Hao, and Min Yang. From WHOIS to WHOWAS: A Large-Scale Measurement Study of Domain Registration Privacy under the GDPR. In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium 2021, Virtual event, February 2021.

  6. [USENIX Security ‘21] Kaiwen Shen, Chuhan Wang, Xiaofeng Zheng, Minglei Guo, Chaoyi Lu, Baojun Liu, Yuxuan Zhao, Shuang Hao, Haixin Duan, Qingfeng Pan, and Min Yang. Weak Links in Authentication Chains: A Large-scale Analysis of Email Sender Spoofing Attacks. In Proceedings of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium, Virtual event, August 2021.

  7. [CCS ‘20b] Mingming Zhang, Xiaofeng Zheng, Kaiwen Shen, Ziqiao Kong, Chaoyi Lu, Yu Wang, Haixin Duan, Shuang Hao, Baojun Liu, and Min Yang. Talking with Familiar Strangers: An Empirical Study on HTTPS Context Confusion Attacks. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Virtual event, November 2020.

  8. [CCS ‘20a] Yiming Zhang, Baojun Liu, Chaoyi Lu, Zhou Li, Haixin Duan, Shuang Hao, Mingxuan Liu, Ying Liu, Dong Wang, and Qiang Li. Lies in the Air: Characterizing Fake-base-station Spam Ecosystem in China. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Virtual event, November 2020.

  9. [USENIX Security ‘20] Xiaofeng Zheng, Chaoyi Lu, Jian Peng, Qiushi Yang, Dongjie Zhou, Baojun Liu, Keyu Man, Shuang Hao, Haixin Duan, and Zhiyun Qian. Poison Over Troubled Forwarders: A Cache Poisoning Attack Targeting DNS Forwarding Devices. In Proceedings of the 29th USENIX Security Symposium, Virtual event, August 2020.

  10. [IMC ‘19] Chaoyi Lu, Baojun Liu, Zhou Li, Shuang Hao, Haixin Duan, Mingming Zhang, Chunying Leng, Ying Liu, Zaifeng Zhang, and Jianping Wu.
    An End-to-End, Large-Scale Measurement of DNS-over-Encryption: How Far Have We Come?.
    In Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2019.
    Recipient of IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize 2020
    Nominee of IMC Distinguished Paper Award (Rate: 3/39), Nominee of Community Contribution Award (Rate: 2/39)

  11. [EuroS&P ‘19] Baojun Liu, Zhou Li, Peiyuan Zong, Chaoyi Lu, Haixin Duan, Ying Liu, Sumayah Alrwais, XiaoFeng Wang, Shuang Hao, Yaoqi Jia, Yiming Zhang, Kai Chen, and Zaifeng Zhang.
    TraffickStop: Detecting and Measuring Illicit Traffic Monetization Through Large-scale DNS Analysis.
    In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2019.

  12. [USENIX Security ‘18] Baojun Liu, Chaoyi Lu, Haixin Duan, Ying Liu, Zhou Li, Shuang Hao, and Min Yang.
    Who Is Answering My Queries: Understanding and Characterizing Interception of the DNS Resolution Path.
    In Proceedings of the 27th USENIX Security Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, August 2018.

  13. [FOCI ‘18] Mingming Zhang, Baojun Liu, Chaoyi Lu, Jia Zhang, Shuang Hao, and Haixin Duan.
    Measuring Privacy Threats in China-Wide Mobile Networks.
    Accepted to the 8th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (co-located with USENIX Security Symposium), Baltimore, MD, USA, August 2018.

  14. [DSN ‘18] Baojun Liu, Chaoyi Lu, Zhou Li, Ying Liu, Haixin Duan, Shuang Hao, and Zaifeng Zhang.
    A Reexamination of Internationalized Domain Names: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
    In Proceedings of the 48th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, June 2018.

Awards

  • Graduate Award, Education Commission of Beijing Municipality, 2022
  • PhD Graduate Award of Tsinghua University, 2022
  • PhD Dissertation Award of Tsinghua University, 2022
  • IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP), 2020
  • 1st-Grade Scholarship of Tsinghua University for Guaduate Students, 2020/2021
  • IMC ‘19 Distinguished Paper Award Nominee and Community Contribution Award Nominee, 2019
  • DSN ‘18 Student Travel Grant, 2018
  • Cybersecurity Scholarship of China Internet Foundation, 2016

Services

TPC Members

  • SecureComm ‘23

    External Reviewers

  • Conferences: NDSS ‘22/’20, ICDCS ‘21, DSN ‘20, CCS ‘19, ESORICS ‘19, ICICS ‘19
  • Workshops: WPES ‘21, IoT S&P ‘18, RESEC ‘18
  • Journal: IEEE TNSM 2020