Elaine Yao

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Dependable Systems Lab

2332 Main Mall

Vancouver, BC V6T1Z4, Canada

Hello, I am a second-year Master of Applied Science (MASc) student in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia. I am advised by Prof. Karthik Pattabiraman. I’m also working with Prof. Caroline Lemieux as a Research Assistant. I received my B.Eng from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2021.

My research interests broadly lie in the area of Cyber-physical systems security (e.g., drone swarms, drones, self-driving vehicles) and test-driven security. Currently, I am focusing on finding vulnerabilities in various systems via fuzz testing.

News

Apr 30, 2024 I’m serving as the PC member in the Artifact Evaluation Track of CCS’24, WOOT’24, OSDI’24, ECOOP’24, DSN’24.
Sep 1, 2023 I’m serving as the PC member in the ISSRE 2023 Artifact Evaluation Track.
Mar 17, 2023 Our work, “SwarmFuzz: Discovering GPS Spoofing Attacks in Drone Swarms “, is accepted by DSN 2023. (Acceptance rate: 20%)
Nov 8, 2022 I will present my work, “Poster: May the Swarm Be With You: Sensor Spoofing Attacks Against Drone Swarms”, at ACM CCS 2022. :sparkles: :smile:

Publications

  1. DSN’23
    SwarmFuzz: Discovering GPS Spoofing Attacks in Drone Swarms
    Yingao Yao, Pritam Dash, and Karthik Pattabiraman
    In The 53rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks 2023
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  2. CCS’22
    Poster: May the Swarm Be With You: Sensor Spoofing Attacks Against Drone Swarms
    Yingao Yao, Pritam Dash, and Karthik Pattabiraman
    In 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2022
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