Minh Q. Tran Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8206 Office: 3234 EB II E-mail:  Minh_Tran AT ncsu.edu   I am currently a 4th year doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science at N.C. State University, advised by Dr. Xuxian Jiang. Before that, I spent 4 years working at Bach Khoa Internet Security Center (BKIS), where I and my colleagues built the first and also one of the most popular antivirus software in Vietnam.

Research Interests

My general research interest is in the area of computer & network security, with a current focus on smartphone security and web security.

Publications

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• Minh Tran, Xinshu Dong, Zhenkai Liang, Xuxian Jiang, "Tracking the Trackers: Fast and Scalable Dynamic Analysis of Web Content for Privacy Violations", Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2012), Singapore, June 2012 (17.2%)
• Xinshu Dong, Minh Tran, Zhenkai Liang, Xuxian Jiang, "AdSentry: Comprehensive and Flexible Confinement of JavaScript-based Advertisements", Proceedings of the 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2011), Orlando, Florida, December 2011 (18.5%).
• Xinshu Dong, Minh Tran, Zhenkai Liang, Xuxian Jiang, "AdSentry: Comprehensive and Flexible Confinement of JavaScript-based Advertisements", Accepted Poster in the 20th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX 2011), San Francisco, California, August 2011.
• Minh Tran, Mark Etheridge, Tyler Bletsch, Xuxian Jiang, Vincent Freeh, Peng Ning, "On the Expressiveness of Return-into-libc Attacks", Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2011), Menlo Park, California, September 2011 (23%).