LIU Yin

Research Professor

Tel:+86-10-62603328

Email:liuying@cernet.edu.cn

Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Xidian University, China, 2001

M.S. in Computer Systems Architecture, Xidian University, China, 1998

B.S. in Information Engineering and Management Engineering, Xidian University, China, 1995

China Computer Federation: Internet Technical Committee Member

Internet Architecture

Next-Generation Internet

Cybersecurity

My academic research focuses on next-generation Internet architecture and Cybersecurity. As the project leader, I have led multiple projects，including those under the National Key R&D Program of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and other ministerial-level programs. I have published nearly one hundred high-quality papers. I have been awarded one First Prize of The State Scientific and Technological Progress Award, one Special Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, and one Frist Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Chinese Institute of Electronics
My research primarily focuses on key technologies for next-generation Internet real source address validation architecture (SAVA). I have addressed critical scientific challenges within SAVA, such as the difficulty of tracing user authenticity; the lack of a universal validation mechanisms that is transparent to terminal protocol stacks from different kinds of access networks; and the difficulty in unifying authentication due to diverse terminal types and significant differences in available binding anchors across various terminal types and access modes. I developed a comprehensive SAVA-A solution for access network source address validation, and guided product implementations by Huawei, H3C, and other vendors based on this solution. I led the large-scale deployment of SAVA in Tsinghua University campus network, CERNET2 backbone network.
I am responsible for the operation and management of the China Education and Research Network - CERNET and CERNET2 backbone networks. I participated in the construction and management of the Future Internet Technology Infrastructure (FITI), a national major science and technology infrastructure project. Leveraging national critical information infrastructures such as CERNET2 and FITI, I help drive the formation of a next-generation Internet industry-academia-research collaborative innovation platform involving hundreds of universities, operators, and equipment manufacturers, serving the national strategy of building a strong cyber power.

1. The First Prize of the State Scientific and Technological Progress Award  (2023) — “Source Address Validation Architecture (SAVA) for Next-Generation Internet: Key Technologies and Large-scale Applications” , ranked 4th.
2. The Special Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Chinese Institute of Electronics (2020) — “Source Address Validation Architecture (SAVA) for Next-Generation Internet: Key Technologies and Applications” , ranked 5th.
3. The First Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Chinese Institute of Electronics (2023) — “Core Technologies and Industrialization of Intelligent Operation and Maintenance for Large-Scale Online Services”, ranked 5th.

Major Publications:
[1] Daguo Cheng, Lin He, Qilei Yin, Guangxing Han, Yizhen Zhang, Boran Jin, Ying Liu, Guanglei Song, Jinlong E, Tiankai Yang, Jiahai Yang. AddrProbe: An Internet-wide Active IPv6 Address Probing System with Limited Seeds[J]. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2026: 2498-2513.

[2] Daguo Cheng, Zedong Jia, Ying Liu, Lin He, Chao He, Jiuzhou Zhang, Chentian Wei, Jiasheng Zhou, Zhaoan Wang, Jinlong E. Divide, Predict, Conquer: Adaptive Internet-wide Service Discovery with Limited Seeds[C]//Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'26). IEEE, 2026.

[3] Jiamin Cao, Shangfeng Shi, Jiaqi Gao, Weisen Liu, Yifan Yang, Yichi Xu, Zhilong Zheng, Yu Guan, Kun Qian, Ying Liu, Mingwei Xu, Tianshu Wang, Ning Wang, Jianbo Dong, Binzhang Fu, Dennis Cai, and Ennan Zhai. 2025. SyCCL: Exploiting Symmetry for Efficient Collective Communication Scheduling[C]// Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM'25). 2025:645–662.

[4] Yifan Yang, Lin He, Jiasheng Zhou, Xiaoyi Shi, Yichi Xu, Shicheng Wang, Jinlong E, Ying Liu, Junwei Zhang, Zhuang Yuan, Hengyang Xu. TGW: Operating an Efficient and Resilient Cloud Gateway at Scale[C]// Proceedings of the 2025 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC'25). USENIX, 2025: 199-215.

[5] Jiasheng Zhou, Ying Liu, Lin He, Xiaoyi Shi, Yifan Yang, Chentian Wei, Daguo Cheng, Wenwen Gong, Jiahai Yang. Lightning in the Dark: Uncovering Global IPv6 Router Interfaces and Their Security Implications[C]//Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'25). IEEE, 2025: 1-14.

[6] Jiasheng Zhou, Ying Liu, Lin He, Yifan Yang, Xiaoyi Shi, Daguo Cheng, Chentian Wei, Yun Fan, Guanglei Song. SubRecon: Efficient Internet‑wide IPv6 Subnet Discovery and Its Applications[C]//Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'25). IEEE, 2025: 1-12.

[7] Chentian Wei, Ying Liu, Lin He, Daguo Cheng, Jiasheng Zhou. Gungnir: Autoregressive Model for Unified Generation of IPv6 Fully Responsive Prefixes[C]//Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'25). IEEE, 2025: 1-12.

[8] Yifan Yang, Lin He, Jiasheng Zhou, Xiaoyi Shi, Jiamin Cao, Ying Liu. P4runpro: Enabling Runtime Programmability for RMT Programmable Switches[C]//Proceedings of the 2024 Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM'24). 2024:921-937.

[9] Fenglu Zhang, Baojun Liu, Chaoyi Lu, Yunpeng Xing, Haixin Duan, Ying Liu, Liyuan Chang. Investigating Deployment Issues of DNS Root Server Instances from a China-wide View[J]. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2024.

[10] Daguo Cheng, Lin He, Chentian Wei, Qilei Yin, Boran Jin, Zhaoan Wang, Xiaoteng Pan, Sixu Zhou, Ying Liu, Shenglin Zhang, Fuchao Tan, Wenmao Liu. Luori: Active Probing and Evaluation of Internet-wide IPv6 Fully Responsive Prefixes[C]//Pr- oceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'24). 2024:1-11.

[11] Fenglu Zhang, Baojun Liu, Eihal Alowaisheq, Jianjun Chen, Chaoyi Lu, Linjian Song, Yong Ma, Ying Liu, Haixin Duan, Min Yang. Silence is not Golden: Disrupting the Load Balancing of Authoritative DNS Servers[C]//Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'23). 2023: 296-310. (Distinguished Paper Award)

[12] Fenglu Zhang, Yunyi Zhang, Baojun Liu, Eihal Alowaisheq, Lingyun Ying, Xiang Li, Zaifeng Zhang, Ying Liu, Haixin Duan and Min Zhang. Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Evaluating Security Risks of the Undelegated Record on DNS Hosting Services[C]//Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'23). 2023: 188-197.

[13] Fenglu Zhang, Chaoyi Lu, Baojun Liu, Haixin Duan, Ying Liu. Measuring the Practical Effect of DNS Root Server Instances: A China-Wide Case Study[C]//Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM 2022). 2022: 147-167.

[14] Jiamin Cao, Yu Zhou, Chen Sun, Lin He, Zhaowei Xi, Ying Liu. Firebolt: Finding Bugs in Programmable Data Plane Generators[C]//2022 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC'22). 2022: 819-834.

[15] Yuan Li, Wende Tan, Zhizheng Lv, Songtao Yang, Mathias Payer, Ying Liu, Chao Zhang. PACMem: Enforcing Spatial and Temporal Memory Safety via ARM Pointer Authentication[C]//Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'22). 2022: 1901-1915.

[16] Shicheng Wang, Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Chang Liu, Ying Liu, Zhiliang Wang, Mingwei Xu. Bolt: Scalable and Cost-efficient Multistring Pattern Matching with Programmable Switches[J]. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2022, 31(2): 846-861.

[17] Jiamin Cao, Ying Liu, Yu Zhou, Lin He, Mingwei Xu. TurboNet: Faithfully Emulating Networks with Programmable Switches[J]. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2022, 30(3): 1395-1409.

[18] Jiamin Cao, Ying Liu, Yu Zhou, Lin He, Chen Sun, Yangyang Wang, Mingwei Xu. CoFilter: High-Performance Switch-Accelerated Stateful Packet Filter for BareMetal Servers[J]. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2021, 33(9): 2249-2262.

[19] Shicheng Wang, Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Chang Liu, Ying Liu, Xuya Jia, Mingwei Xu. Making Multi-string Pattern Matching Scalable and Cost-efficient with Programmable Switching asics[C]//Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'21). IEEE, 2021: 1-10.

[20] Chaoyi Lu, Baojun Liu, Yiming Zhang, Zhou Li, Fenglu Zhang, Haixin Duan, Ying Liu, Joann Qiongna Chen, Jinjin Lian, Zaifeng Zhang, Shuang Hao and Min Yang. From WHOIS to WHOWAS: A Large-Scale Measurement Study of Domain Registration Privacy under the GDPR[C]//Proceedings of the 28th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'21). 2021.

[21] Lin He, Gang Ren, Ying Liu, Jiahai Yang. PAVI: Bootstrapping Accountability and Privacy to IPv6 Internet[J]. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2021, 29(2): 695-708.

[22] Yuan Li, Mingzhe Wang, Chao Zhang, Xingman Chen, Songtao Yang, Ying Liu. Finding cracks in shields: On the security of control flow integrity mechanisms[C]// Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'20). 2020: 1821-1835.

[23] Lin He, Gang Ren, Ying Liu. Bootstrapping Accountability and Privacy to IPv6 Internet without Starting from Scratch[C]//Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'19). IEEE, 2019: 1486-1494.

[24] Baojun Liu, Zhou Li, Peiyuan Zong, Chaoyi Lu, Hai-Xin Duan, Ying Liu, Sumayah A. Alrwais, XiaoFeng Wang, Shuang Hao, Yaoqi Jia, Yiming Zhang, Kai Chen, Zaifeng Zhang. TraffickStop: Detecting and Measuring Illicit Traffic Monetization Through Large-Scale DNS Analysis[C]//Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P 2019). 2019: 16-30. (CCF C)

[25] Chaoyi Lu, Baojun Liu, Zhou Li, Shuang Hao, Haixin Duan, Mingming Zhang, Chunying Leng, Ying Liu, Zaifeng Zhang, Jianping Wu. An end-to-end, large-scale measurement of dns-over-encryption: How far have we come?[C]//Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'19). 2019: 22-35. (IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize)

[26] Baojun Liu, Chaoyi Lu, Zhou Li, Ying Liu, Hai-Xin Duan, Shuang Hao, Zaifeng Zhang. A Reexamination of Internationalized Domain Names: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly[C]//Proceedings of the 2018 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2018). 2018: 654-665.

[27] Baojun Liu, Chaoyi Lu, Haixin Duan, Ying Liu, Zhou Li, Shuang Hao, Min Yang. Who is answering my queries: Understanding and characterizing interception of the DNS resolution path[C]//Proceedings of the 27th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security'18). 2018: 1113-1128.

[28] Ying Liu, Lin He, Gang Ren. GAGMS: A Requirement-Driven General Address Generation and Management System[J]. Science China Information Sciences, 2018, 61(9): 092109.

[29] Shenglin Zhang, Ying Liu, Weibin Meng, Zhiling Luo, Jiahao Bu, Sen Yang, Peixian Liang, Dan Pei, Jun (Jim) Xu, Yuzhi Zhang, Yu Chen, Hui Dong, Xianping Qu, Lei Song. Prefix: Switch Failure Prediction in Datacenter Networks[J]. Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, 2018, 2(1): 1-29.

[30] Shenglin Zhang, Ying Liu, Dan Pei, Yu Chen, Xianping Qu, Shimin Tao, Xiaowei Jing. FUNNEL: Assessing Software Changes in Web-Based Services[J]. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2016, 11(1): 34-48.

[31] Shenglin Zhang, Ying Liu, Dan Pei, Yu Chen, Xianping Qu, Shimin Tao, Zhi Zang. Rapid and Robust Impact Assessment of Software Changes in Large Internet-based Services[C]//Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (CoNEXT'15). 2015: 1-13.

[32] LIU Ying, Ren gang, Wu Jianping, Zhang Shenglin. Building an IPv6 Address Generation and Traceback System with NIDTGA in Address Driven Network, SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, 2015, 58: 120102(14) .

[33] Liu Ying，Liu Hong-Ying，Xu Ke，Shen Meng， A Family of Stable Multipath Dual Congestion Control Algorithms，Journal of Computer Science and Technology，2015，30（6）：1274~1289

[34] Liu Ying，Li He，Liu HongYing，Utility function of TCP Reno under precise end-to-end drop probability，SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, 2013, 56（1）：1~6

[35] Liu Ying，Wu Jianping，Recent progress in the study of the next generation Internet in China，The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A，2013, 371（1987）：1~20