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15846
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1152
National Ranking
526

Overview

David Evans is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within computer science and mathematics, with significant work intersecting artificial intelligence and advanced mathematical topics.

Evans has contributed extensively to the literature with 64 publications in computer science and 33 in mathematics. Their subfields of study include:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Mathematical Physics
  • Geometry and Topology
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Their main research topics cover:

  • Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • Algebraic Structures and Combinatorial Models
  • Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology
  • Advanced Operator Algebra Research
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Evans include:

  • Anshuman Suri
  • Xiao Zhang
  • Ulrich Pennig
  • Quanquan Gu
  • Fnu Suya

Evans has published many papers in notable venues. The most frequent publication platforms include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Advances in Mathematics
  • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • Spectrum Research Repository (Concordia University)

Representative recent papers authored by or co-authored with Evans are:

  • Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning, 2020, Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning
  • Revisiting Membership Inference Under Realistic Assumptions, 2021, DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • Are Attribute Inference Attacks Just Imputation?, 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  • Formalizing and Estimating Distribution Inference Risks, 2022, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • Revisiting Membership Inference Under Realistic Assumptions, 2021, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Best Publications

  • Neoproterozoic glaciations in a revised global palaeogeography from the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of Gondwanaland

    Zheng-Xiang Li;Zheng-Xiang Li;David A.D. Evans;Galen P. Halverson;Galen P. Halverson

  • Assembly and breakup of the core of Paleoproterozoic-Mesoproterozoic supercontinent Nuna

    David A.D. Evans;Ross N. Mitchell

  • Pre-Rodinia supercontinent Nuna shaping up: A global synthesis with new paleomagnetic results from North China

    Shihong Zhang;Zheng-Xiang Li;David A.D. Evans;Huaichun Wu

  • Age of Neoproterozoic Bilatarian Body and Trace Fossils, White Sea, Russia: Implications for Metazoan Evolution

    M. W. Martin;D. V. Grazhdankin;S. A. Bowring;D. A. D. Evans

  • Stratigraphic, geochronological, and paleomagnetic constraints upon the Neoproterozoic climatic paradox

    David A. D. Evans

  • Evidence for a Large-Scale Reorganization of Early Cambrian Continental Masses by Inertial Interchange True Polar Wander

    Joseph L. Kirschvink;Robert L. Ripperdan;Robert L. Ripperdan;David A. Evans;David A. Evans

  • Models of Rodinia assembly and fragmentation

    Sergei A. Pisarevsky;Michael T. D. Wingate;Chris McA. Powell;Simon Johnson

  • Low-latitude glaciation in the Palaeoproterozoic era

    D. A. Evans;N. J. Beukes;J. L. Kirschvink

  • The palaeomagnetically viable, long-lived and all-inclusive Rodinia supercontinent reconstruction

    David A. D. Evans

  • A 90° spin on Rodinia: possible causal links between the Neoproterozoic supercontinent, superplume, true polar wander and low-latitude glaciation

    Z.X. Li;D.A.D. Evans;D.A.D. Evans;S. Zhang

  • Reconstructing pre-Pangean supercontinents

    David A.D. Evans

  • True polar wander and supercontinents

    David A.D. Evans

  • Rodinia connections between Australia and Laurentia: no SWEAT, no AUSWUS?

    Michael T. D. Wingate;Sergei A. Pisarevsky;David A. D. Evans

  • Eocene greenhouse climate revealed by coupled clumped isotope-Mg/Ca thermometry

    David M Evans;Navjit Sagoo;Willem Renema;Laura J. Cotton

  • The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: methodologies for selection, compilation and analysis of latest Paleocene and early Eocene climate proxy data, incorporating version 0.1 of the DeepMIP database

    Christopher J Hollis;Tom Dunkley Jones;Eleni Anagnostou;Eleni Anagnostou;Peter K Bijl

  • Palaeoproterozoic supercontinents and global evolution: correlations from core to atmosphere

    S. M. Reddy;D. A. D. Evans

  • Supercontinent cycles and the calculation of absolute palaeolongitude in deep time

    Ross N. Mitchell;Taylor M. Kilian;David A. D. Evans

  • Correlations and reconstruction models for the 2500–1500 Ma evolution of the Mawson Continent

    Justin L. Payne;Martin Hand;Karin M. Barovich;Anthony Reid

  • Global water cycle and the coevolution of the Earth's interior and surface environment.

    Jun Korenaga;Noah J. Planavsky;David A. D. Evans

  • Proterozoic low orbital obliquity and axial-dipolar geomagnetic field from evaporite palaeolatitudes

    David A. D. Evans

  • Validating the existence of Vaalbara in the Neoarchean

    Michiel O. de Kock;David A.D. Evans;Nicolas J. Beukes

Frequent Co-Authors

Claude Amsler
Claude Amsler University of Zurich
R. Erbacher
R. Erbacher University of California, Davis
P. Wittich
P. Wittich Cornell University
Petar Maksimovic
Petar Maksimovic Johns Hopkins University
Guenakh Mitselmakher
Guenakh Mitselmakher University of Florida
Jacobo Konigsberg
Jacobo Konigsberg University of Florida
Bruce A. Barnett
Bruce A. Barnett Johns Hopkins University
John Perry Cumalat
John Perry Cumalat University of Colorado Boulder
Jay Hauser
Jay Hauser University of California, Los Angeles

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