Francis Hsu

2110 Watershed Science
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8562

<my username>@cs.<university domain>
http://mu.cs.ucdavis.edu/~fhsu/
+1 (408) 538 1535

Research

I'm interested in security systems usable by mere mortals. Areas of interest include malware defense, web security, electronic voting, and authentication.

Publications

OMash: Enabling Secure Web Mashups via Object Abstractions Steven Crites, Francis Hsu, Hao Chen Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security Alexandria, VA, October 2008 [PDF]
iPhish: Phishing Vulnerabilities on Consumer Electronics Yuan Niu, Francis Hsu, and Hao Chen Usability, Psychology and Security 2008 San Francisco, CA, April 2008. [PDF]
An Analysis of the Hart InterCivic DAU eSlate Elliot Proebstel, Sean Riddle, Francis Hsu, Justin Cummins, Freddie Oakley, Tom Stanionis, Matt Bishop. 2007 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop Boston, MA, August 2007. [PDF]
Input validation of client-server web applications through static analysis Francis Hsu. Web 2.0 Security and Privacy 2007 Workshop, Oakland, CA, May 2007. [PDF]
A Framework for Diversifying Windows Native APIs to Tolerate Code Injection Attacks. Lynette Qu Nguyen, Tufan Demir, Jeff Rowe, Francis Hsu, Karl Levitt. Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Symposium on InformAtion, Computer, and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2007), Singapore, March 2007. [PDF]
A Quantitative Study of Forum Spamming Using Context-based Analysis. Yuan Niu, Yi-min Wang, Hao Chen, Ming Ma, Francis Hsu. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2007), San Diego, CA, February 2007. [PDF]
Back to the Future: A Framework for Automatic Malware Removal and System Repair. Francis Hsu, Hao Chen, Thomas Ristenpart, Jason Li, and Zhendong Su. Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 22), Miami Beach, FL, December 2006. [PDF]

Teaching

I've been a Teaching Assistant for the following courses at Davis.

ECS 40 Introduction to Software Development (Fall 2004)
ECS 142 Compilers (Winter 2005)
ECS 145 Scripting Languages (Spring 2005)
ECS 235 Computer Security - Graduate (Fall 2005)

Bio

I'm a graduate student in the Computer Security Lab (SecLab) at UC Davis, advised by Prof. Hao Chen. I graduated from UC Berkeley with a BS in EECS. I've been associated with the following acronyms at some point in my life: GSA, WiCS, HKN, UCSEE, TBP, and SWE. If I ever have questions about AI, I count on the oracle of machine learning for enlightenment.