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Overview

Kevin R. B. Butler is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the field of Computer Science, encompassing a total of 60 publications. Within this broad domain, they have contributed notably to subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, and Emergency Medicine.

The research topics covered by Kevin R. B. Butler's work include:

  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Face Recognition and Analysis
  • Security and Verification in Computing
  • Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning

They have authored papers published in a range of venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • IEEE Security & Privacy

Notable recent papers include:

  • "A privacy-preserving approach to streaming eye-tracking data" (2021) published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • "Student attitudes toward research in an undergraduate social science research methods course" (2022) published in Higher Education Pedagogies
  • "Privacy-preserving datasets of eye-tracking samples with applications in XR" (2023) published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • "Privacy-Preserving Gaze Data Streaming in Immersive Interactive Virtual Reality: Robustness and User Experience" (2024) published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • "FuzzUSB: Hybrid Stateful Fuzzing of USB Gadget Stacks" (2022) published in 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)

Kevin R. B. Butler has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Eakta Jain (14 joint publications)
  • Patrick Traynor (10 joint publications)
  • Brendan David-John (7 joint publications)
  • Azim Ibragimov (6 joint publications)
  • Diane Hosfelt (5 joint publications)

In addition to journal and conference articles, they have contributed to book publications. One such publication is "Security and Privacy in Communication Networks," released in 2020 under the Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering series.

Best Publications

  • A Survey of BGP Security Issues and Solutions

    K. Butler;T.R. Farley;P. McDaniel;J. Rexford

  • CryptoLock (and Drop It): Stopping Ransomware Attacks on User Data

    Nolen Scaife;Henry Carter;Patrick Traynor;Kevin R. B. Butler

  • Secure outsourced garbled circuit evaluation for mobile devices

    Henry Carter;Benjamin Mood;Patrick Traynor;Kevin R. B. Butler

  • Trustworthy whole-system provenance for the Linux kernel

    Adam Bates;Dave Tian;Kevin R. B. Butler;Thomas Moyer

  • Hi-Fi: collecting high-fidelity whole-system provenance

    Devin J. Pohly;Stephen McLaughlin;Patrick McDaniel;Kevin Butler

  • Mo(bile) Money, Mo(bile) Problems: Analysis of Branchless Banking Applications

    Bradley Reaves;Jasmine Bowers;Nolen Scaife;Adam Bates

  • Detecting co-residency with active traffic analysis techniques

    Adam Bates;Benjamin Mood;Joe Pletcher;Hannah Pruse

  • Porscha: policy oriented secure content handling in Android

    Machigar Ongtang;Kevin Butler;Patrick McDaniel

  • PCF: a portable circuit format for scalable two-party secure computation

    Ben Kreuter;Benjamin Mood;Abhi Shelat;Kevin Butler

  • Practical Hidden Voice Attacks against Speech and Speaker Recognition Systems

    Hadi Abdullah;Washington Garcia;Christian Peeters;Patrick Traynor

  • Proceedings of the 30th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference

    Charles N. Payne;Adam Hahn;Kevin Butler;Micah Sherr

  • Frigate: A Validated, Extensible, and Efficient Compiler and Interpreter for Secure Computation

    Benjamin Mood;Debayan Gupta;Henry Carter;Kevin Butler

  • Mo(bile) money, mo(bile) problems: analysis of branchless banking applications in the developing world

    Bradley Reaves;Nolen Scaife;Adam Bates;Patrick Traynor

  • Optimizing BGP security by exploiting path stability

    Kevin Butler;Patrick McDaniel;William Aiello

  • Defending Against Malicious USB Firmware with GoodUSB

    Dave Jing Tian;Adam Bates;Kevin Butler

  • Let SDN Be Your Eyes: Secure Forensics in Data Center Networks

    Adam Bates;Kevin Butler;Andreas Haeberlen;Micah Sherr

  • Towards secure provenance-based access control in cloud environments

    Adam Bates;Ben Mood;Masoud Valafar;Kevin Butler

  • On detecting co-resident cloud instances using network flow watermarking techniques

    Adam Bates;Benjamin Mood;Joe Pletcher;Hannah Pruse

  • adroid: Assessment and Evaluation of Android Application Analysis Tools

    Bradley Reaves;Jasmine Bowers;Sigmund Albert Gorski;Olabode Anise

  • A privacy-preserving approach to streaming eye-tracking data

    Brendan David-John;Diane Hosfelt;Kevin Butler;Eakta Jain

  • Origin authentication in interdomain routing

    Patrick McDaniel;William Aiello;Kevin Butler;John Ioannidis

  • FirmUSB: Vetting USB Device Firmware using Domain Informed Symbolic Execution

    Grant Hernandez;Farhaan Fowze;Dave (Jing) Tian;Tuba Yavuz

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Traynor
Patrick Traynor University of Florida
Patrick McDaniel
Patrick McDaniel University of Wisconsin–Madison
William Enck
William Enck North Carolina State University
Trent Jaeger
Trent Jaeger Pennsylvania State University
Somesh Jha
Somesh Jha University of Wisconsin–Madison
Joan Feigenbaum
Joan Feigenbaum Yale University
Dan S. Wallach
Dan S. Wallach Rice University
William Aiello
William Aiello University of British Columbia
Jennifer Rexford
Jennifer Rexford Princeton University
Swarup Bhunia
Swarup Bhunia University of Florida

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