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Overview

David Choffnes is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States and specializes in the field of Computer Science. Their research primarily addresses topics within artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, signal processing, sociology and political science, and information systems.

The scientist's work covers an array of main topics, including:

  • Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • User Authentication and Security Systems
  • IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
  • Smart Grid Security and Resilience

David Choffnes has published extensively with 41 works in Computer Science and subfields such as Artificial Intelligence (15 publications), Computer Networks and Communications (10), Signal Processing (10), Sociology and Political Science (7), and Information Systems (5).

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David Choffnes are:

  • Daniel J. Dubois
  • Anna Maria Mandalari
  • Hamed Haddadi
  • Roman Kolcun
  • Muhammad Talha Paracha

Their research has been featured in several venues including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • Nature Computational Science

Recent papers authored or co-authored by David Choffnes include:

  • A Comparative Study of Dark Patterns Across Web and Mobile Modalities, 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • When Speakers Are All Ears: Characterizing Misactivations of IoT Smart Speakers, 2020, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • Blocking Without Breaking: Identification and Mitigation of Non-Essential IoT Traffic, 2021, DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • Enhancing the ethics of user-sourced online data collection and sharing, 2023, Nature Computational Science
  • Not Your Average App: A Large-scale Privacy Analysis of Android Browsers, 2023, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Best Publications

  • Taming the torrent: a practical approach to reducing cross-isp traffic in peer-to-peer systems

    David R. Choffnes;Fabián E. Bustamante

  • An integrated mobility and traffic model for vehicular wireless networks

    David R. Choffnes;Fabián E. Bustamante

  • Drafting behind Akamai: inferring network conditions based on CDN redirections

    Ao-Jan Su;David R. Choffnes;Aleksandar Kuzmanovic;Fabián E. Bustamante

  • Drafting behind Akamai (travelocity-based detouring)

    Ao-Jan Su;David R. Choffnes;Aleksandar Kuzmanovic;Fabián E. Bustamante

  • Information Exposure From Consumer IoT Devices: A Multidimensional, Network-Informed Measurement Approach

    Jingjing Ren;Daniel J. Dubois;David Choffnes;Anna Maria Mandalari

  • FlowPrint: Semi-Supervised Mobile-App Fingerprinting on Encrypted Network Traffic

    Thijs Sebastiaan van Ede;Riccardo Bortolameotti;Andrea Continella;Jingjing Ren

  • Demo: ReCon: Revealing and Controlling PII Leaks in Mobile Network Traffic

    Jingjing Ren;Ashwin Rao;Martina Lindorfer;Arnaud Legout

  • Real-time multicast peer-to-peer video streaming platform

    Stefan Birrer;David Choffnes;Noah S. Clemons;Andrea C. Heusser

  • An End-to-End Measurement of Certificate Revocation in the Web's PKI

    Yabing Liu;Will Tome;Liang Zhang;David Choffnes

  • Taking a long look at QUIC: an approach for rigorous evaluation of rapidly evolving transport protocols

    Arash Molavi Kakhki;Samuel Jero;David Choffnes;Cristina Nita-Rotaru

  • Where the sidewalk ends: extending the internet as graph using traceroutes from P2P users

    Kai Chen;David R. Choffnes;Rahul Potharaju;Yan Chen

  • Mobilyzer: An Open Platform for Controllable Mobile Network Measurements

    Ashkan Nikravesh;Hongyi Yao;Shichang Xu;David Choffnes

  • Dasu: pushing experiments to the internet's edge

    Mario A. Sánchez;John S. Otto;Zachary S. Bischof;David R. Choffnes

  • Analysis of SSL certificate reissues and revocations in the wake of heartbleed

    Liang Zhang;David Choffnes;Dave Levin;Tudor Dumitraş

  • LIFEGUARD: practical repair of persistent route failures

    Ethan Katz-Bassett;Colin Scott;David R. Choffnes;Ítalo Cunha

  • Mobile Network Performance from User Devices: A Longitudinal, Multidimensional Analysis

    Ashkan Nikravesh;David R. Choffnes;Ethan Katz-Bassett;Z. Morley Mao

  • Crowdsourcing service-level network event monitoring

    David R. Choffnes;Fabián E. Bustamante;Zihui Ge

  • CRLite: A Scalable System for Pushing All TLS Revocations to All Browsers

    James Larisch;David Choffnes;Dave Levin;Bruce M. Maggs

  • Investigating Transparent Web Proxies in Cellular Networks

    Xing Xu;Yurong Jiang;Tobias Flach;Ethan Katz-Bassett

  • A longitudinal, end-to-end view of the DNSSEC ecosystem

    Taejoong Chung;Roland Van Rijswijk-Deij;Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran;David Choffnes

  • Taming the Torrent.

    David R. Choffnes;Fabián E. Bustamante

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabián E. Bustamante
Fabián E. Bustamante Northwestern University
Alan Mislove
Alan Mislove Northeastern University
Christo Wilson
Christo Wilson Northeastern University
Bruce M. Maggs
Bruce M. Maggs Duke University
Hamed Haddadi
Hamed Haddadi Imperial College London
Ethan Katz-Bassett
Ethan Katz-Bassett Columbia University
Z. Morley Mao
Z. Morley Mao University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Cristina Nita-Rotaru
Cristina Nita-Rotaru Northeastern University
Arvind Krishnamurthy
Arvind Krishnamurthy University of Washington
Roger Guimerà
Roger Guimerà Rovira i Virgili University

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