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Overview

Christopher Kiekintveld is affiliated with The University of Texas at El Paso in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with a specific concentration on computer networks and communications, information systems, signal processing, artificial intelligence, and sociology and political science.

Their work covers several key topics within these fields, notably:

  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Information and Cyber Security
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
  • Spam and Phishing Detection
  • Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining

Christopher Kiekintveld has contributed to a variety of recent papers, including:

  • "Survey and Taxonomy of Adversarial Reconnaissance Techniques," 2022, published in ACM Computing Surveys
  • "Security Games with Limited Surveillance," 2021, published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "Honeypot Allocation for Cyber Deception Under Uncertainty," 2022, published in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
  • "Network discovery and scanning strategies and the Dark Triad," 2021, published in Computers in Human Behavior
  • "The Dark Triad and strategic resource control in a competitive computer game," 2020, published in Personality and Individual Differences

The venues that frequently publish their work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Preprints.org
  • ACM Computing Surveys
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Frequent collaborators in their research are:

  • Charles Kamhoua
  • Mohammad Sujan Miah
  • Tosin Ige
  • Md Abu Sayed
  • Aritran Piplai

Best Publications

  • Computing optimal randomized resource allocations for massive security games

    Christopher Kiekintveld;Manish Jain;Jason Tsai;James Pita

  • Stackelberg vs. Nash in security games: an extended investigation of interchangeability, equivalence, and uniqueness

    Dmytro Korzhyk;Zhengyu Yin;Christopher Kiekintveld;Vincent Conitzer

  • Software Assistants for Randomized Patrol Planning for the LAX Airport Police and the Federal Air Marshal Service

    Manish Jain;Jason Tsai;James Pita;Christopher Kiekintveld

  • IRIS – A Tool for Strategic Security Allocation in Transportation Networks

    Jason Tsai;Shyamsunder Rathi;Christopher Kiekintveld;Fernando Ordóñez

  • Security games with arbitrary schedules: a branch and price approach

    Manish Jain;Erim Kardeş;Christopher Kiekintveld;Milind Tambe

  • Stackelberg security games: Looking beyond a decade of success

    Arunesh Sinha;Fei Fang;Bo An;Christopher Kiekintveld

  • GUARDS: game theoretic security allocation on a national scale

    James Pita;Milind Tambe;Chris Kiekintveld;Shane Cullen

  • Improving resource allocation strategy against human adversaries in security games

    Rong Yang;Christopher Kiekintveld;Fernando Ordonez;Milind Tambe

  • Stackelberg vs. Nash in security games: interchangeability, equivalence, and uniqueness

    Zhengyu Yin;Dmytro Korzhyk;Christopher Kiekintveld;Vincent Conitzer

  • TRUSTS: scheduling randomized patrols for fare inspection in transit systems

    Zhengyu Yin;Albert Xin Jiang;Matthew P. Johnson;Milind Tambe

  • TRUSTS: Scheduling randomized patrols for fare inspection in transit systems using game theory

    Zhengyu Yin;Albert Xin Jiang;Milind Tambe;Christopher Kiekintveld

  • Empirical game-theoretic analysis of the TAC Supply Chain game

    Patrick R. Jordan;Christopher Kiekintveld;Michael P. Wellman

  • Improving resource allocation strategies against human adversaries in security games: An extended study

    Rong Yang;Christopher Kiekintveld;Fernando OrdóñEz;Milind Tambe

  • An exact double-oracle algorithm for zero-sum extensive-form games with imperfect information

    Branislav Bošanský;Christopher Kiekintveld;Viliam Lisý;Michal Pěchouček

  • Urban Security: Game-Theoretic Resource Allocation in Networked Domains

    Jason Tsai;Zhengyu Yin;Jun-young Kwak;David Kempe

  • Game theoretic model of strategic honeypot selection in computer networks

    Radek Píbil;Viliam Lisý;Christopher Kiekintveld;Branislav Bošanský

  • Asynchronous algorithms for approximate distributed constraint optimization with quality bounds

    Christopher Kiekintveld;Zhengyu Yin;Atul Kumar;Milind Tambe

  • GUARDS and PROTECT: next generation applications of security games

    Bo An;James Pita;Eric Shieh;Milind Tambe

  • Optimal network security hardening using attack graph games

    Karel Durkota;Viliam Lisy;Branislav Bošansky;Christopher Kiekintveld

  • Approximation methods for infinite Bayesian Stackelberg games: modeling distributional payoff uncertainty

    Christopher Kiekintveld;Janusz Marecki;Milind Tambe

Frequent Co-Authors

Milind Tambe
Milind Tambe Harvard University
Michael P. Wellman
Michael P. Wellman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik Washington University in St. Louis
Fernando Ordóñez
Fernando Ordóñez University of Chile
Bo An
Bo An Nanyang Technological University
Satinder Singh
Satinder Singh DeepMind (United Kingdom)
David Kempe
David Kempe University of Southern California
Vladik Kreinovich
Vladik Kreinovich The University of Texas at El Paso
Vincent Conitzer
Vincent Conitzer Carnegie Mellon University
Richard S. John
Richard S. John University of Southern California

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