Erika Chin


Graduate Student
UC Berkeley, Computer Science Division

723 Soda Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720

emc AT eecs.berkeley.edu
I am a 5th year graduate student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley and I am being advised by David Wagner. I received my BS in Computer Science and minor in Engineering Business from University of Virginia. My research interests include mobile phone security, taint tracking, and web security.

Publications:

Analyzing Inter-Application Communication in Android, Erika Chin, Adrienne Porter Felt, Kate Greenwood, and David Wagner, 9th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2011. [slides (pdf)] [slides (pptx)]
Tool available at: comdroid.org

Survey of Mobile Malware In The Wild, Adrienne Porter Felt, Matthew Finifter, Erika Chin, Steve Hanna, and David Wagner, To appear at the CCS Workshop on Security and Privacy in Mobile Devices (SPSM), 2011.

Android Permissions Demystified, Adrienne Porter Felt, Erika Chin, Steve Hanna, Dawn Song, and David Wagner, To appear at the 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2011.
Our data and tool are available at: android-permissions.org

Permission Re-Delegation: Attacks and Defenses, Adrienne Porter Felt, Helen Wang, Alex Moshchuk, Steven Hanna, and Erika Chin, 20th USENIX Security Symposium, 2011.

Efficient Character-level Taint Tracking for Java, Erika Chin and David Wagner, Workshop on Secure Web Services (SWS), 2009.

The Goals and Challenges of Click Fraud Penetration Testing Systems, Carmelo Kintana, David Turner, Jia-Yu Pan, Ahmed Metwally, Neil Daswani, Erika Chin, Andrew Bortz, 20th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, 2009.

Color Management of Printers by Regression over Enclosing Neighborhoods, Erika M. Chin, Eric K. Garcia and Maya R. Gupta, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing, 2007.

Adaptive Local Linear Regression with Application to Printer Color Management, Maya R. Gupta, Eric K. Garcia, and Erika Chin, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 17, no. 6, 936-945, 2008.

Presentations:

 Seven Ways To Hang Yourself with Google Android. Presented at DEF CON 19, Las Vegas, 2011. [slides]

Teaching:

 I have been a TA for CS 216 Program and Data Representations at UVA for five semesters. I've worked with Ruth Anderson, Tom Horton, Dave Evans, and Michele Co. For this work, I received UVA's Undergraduate Education Award. I was also a GSI for CS 161 Computer Security at UC Berkeley in Spring 2010 for David Wagner and Vern Paxson.

Coursework and Projects:
CS 261
CS 294		 Computer Security
Privacy and Security Enhancing Technologies		 Detecting VM-Awareness
CS 267 Applications of Parallel Computers Computing CG on CUDA
CS 262A Advanced Topics in Computer Systems Towards Automated Diagnosis of Misconfigured Programs
CS 270 Algorithms Challenge Problem
CS 294 Dynamic Program Analysis, Testing, and Debugging       Efficient Taint Tracking for Java
INFO 290       Internet Policy Challenges in a Global Environment Talking CCTVs and Regulation
INFO 237 Intellectual Property Law for the Information Industries  
CS 294 Advanced Topics in Computer Security  

Activities:

Life Outside of Soda Hall:

 As much as I love research, it's always good to take a break. In my spare time, I enjoy ballroom dancing, zumba, yoga, ballet, cooking, and traveling.