Huijia (Rachel) Lin

Department of Computer Science

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY, 14853

email: huijia at cs dot cornell dot edu

 

Summary

I am Ph.D student in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University since 2006.

From 2004 to 2006 , I was a Ph.D student in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University under the supervisor of Prof. Tzi-cker Chiueh and Jie Gao. I transferred to Cornell in 2006.

I obtained my B.S in 2004 from the Department of Computer Science in Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and my Minor Degree in Business Management, Intensive Training Program of High-tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Chu KeChen Honors College.

 

Research Interests

• I am interested in Cryptography, Complexity and generally Theory. My advisor is Rafael Pass.

 

Publications

• Universally Secure Computation without Trusted Setup. In sumbmission to FOCS 2008
  • Huijia (Rachel) Lin, Rafael Pass, Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam.
• Composable Information Gradients in Wireless Sensor Networks. IPSN 2008
  • Huijia Lin, Maohua Lu (Sunysb), Nikola Milosavljevic (Standford), Jie Gao (Sunysb), Leonidas J. Guibas (Standford)
• Concurrent Non-Malleable Commitments from One-way Functions. TCC 2008 (Invited to Journal of Cryptography)
  • Huijia (Rachel) Lin, Rafael Pass, Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam.
• RICH: Automatically Protecting Against Integer-Based Vulnerabilities. NDSS 2007.
  • David Brumley (CMU), Tzi-cker Chiueh (Sunysb), Robert Johnson (Sunysb), Huijia Lin, Dawn Song (CMU)

 

Projects

• Dira: Automatic Detection, Identification, and Repair of Control-hijacking Attacks.
  • Susanta Nanda (Sunysb), Alexey Smirnov (Sunysb), Huijia Lin, Tzi-cker Chiueh (Sunysb)
• Array Bounds Checking Using Segmentation Hardware.
  • Lap-Chung Lam (Sunysb), Huijia Lin, Tzi-cker Chiueh (Sunysb)

 

Work Experience:

• Google, Kirkland office, 2007 summer
  • Host: Ashish Raniwala
  • Optimize advertisement target reach using approximate algorithm for set cover.
• IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 2006 Summer
  • Host: Prashant Pradhan
  • Optimize service delivery using approximate algorithm for bin packing.
• Research Assistant, Cornell 2007 Fall, Sunysb 2005-2006, Zhejiang University, 2003-2004
• Teaching Assistant, Cornell 2006 -2007, Sunysb 2004-2005

 

Honors and Distinctions

• Full Scholarship
  • to attend Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, 2007
• NSF-TRUST fellowships
  • to attend The Women's Institute in Summer Enrichment (WISE), 2006
• Prestigious Renaissance Technologies Inc. Fellowship
  • Stony Brook University, 2004-2006
• Dean's List
  • Zhejiang University, 2000 - 2004
• Distinguished Bachelor’s Dissertation
  • Zhejiang University, 2004
• Honored Graduates
• Zhejiang University, 2004
• The best academic performance in the graduating class in all disciplines of the undergraduate programmes of study
• YouDa Scholarship
  • Taiwan AU Optronics Corp. 2003
• University Excellent Studnet Scholarship
  • Zhejiang University, 2001-2004
• University Entrance Scholarship
  • Zhejiang University, 2000

 

Whatever Area

• Shotokan Karate Club at Cornell University
  • Karate is fun. I am current orange belt and preparing for my green belt rank test.
• Hangzhou
  • I am from Hangzhou, China. It is a beautiful city and famous for West Lake in the center of the city.
• Theory Discussion Group at CS at Cornell
  • I am currently organizing the Theory Discussion Group in the department among students. Although the most part of my job is merely sending emails, having weekly discussion is quite enjoyable.
• Women in Computer Science and Engineering
  • I currently started to pay attention to the status of women in computer science and engineering. I believe women need more community supports in pursuing their careers. A list of programs and scholarships for women in CS collected by Bistra Dilkina.