I am a research scientist/engineer at Facebook focusing on abuse problems. I’m currently a Tech Lead on the External Data Misuse team, working on efforts to stop scraping and automation. I have published numerous academic papers on aspects of computer security and recently co-authored a book on Machine Learning and Security, published by O’Reilly. I hold a PhD in mathematics from UC Berkeley and did postdoctoral research in cryptography and security at CWI and Stanford University.
Interests
Social network abuse (fake and compromised accounts, spam), scraping prevention and bot detection, adversarial machine learning, and measurement and experimentation for abuse problems
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Latest Publications
USENIX Security - November 11, 2020
Deep Entity Classification: Abusive Account Detection for Online Social Networks
Teng Xu, Gerard Goossen, Huseyin Kerem Cevahir, Sara Khodeir, Yingyezhe Jin, Frank Li, Shawn Shan, Sagar Patel, David Freeman, Paul Pearce
ACM IMC - October 28, 2020
Towards A User-Level Understanding of IPv6 Behavior
Frank Li, David Freeman
RAID - October 15, 2020
Evaluating Changes to Fake Account Verification Systems
Fedor Kozlov, Isabella Yuen, Jakub Kowalczyk, Daniel Bernhardt, David Freeman, Paul Pearce, Ivan Ivanov