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  • 2020 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Kirill Levchenko is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on multiple subfields including Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Their work covers a range of topics such as Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting, Network Security and Intrusion Detection, Software-Defined Networks and 5G, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, Digital and Cyber Forensics, Software System Performance and Reliability, and Radiation Effects in Electronics.

Levchenko has contributed to several recent papers published in reputable venues:

  • Dynamic Property Enforcement in Programmable Data Planes, 2021, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • Story Beyond the Eye: Glyph Positions Break PDF Text Redaction, 2023, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • Explaining Why Fake Photos are Fake, 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Balancing Act: Navigating Control and Data Plane Responsibilities for Fast Operation in Programmable Networks, 2025, Journal of Network and Systems Management
  • Story Beyond the Eye: Glyph Positions Break PDF Text Redaction, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Levchenko include:

  • Bradley Huffaker
  • Maxwell Bland
  • Anushya Iyer
  • Tzu-Bin Yan
  • Zesen Zhang

The publication venues in which Levchenko's work appears reflect the diversity of their research interests:

  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Journal of Network and Systems Management
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Since 2020, Kirill Levchenko holds the distinction of ACM Senior Member, recognizing their sustained contributions to the computing community.

Best Publications

  • A fistful of bitcoins: characterizing payments among men with no names

    Sarah Meiklejohn;Marjori Pomarole;Grant Jordan;Kirill Levchenko

  • Spamalytics: an empirical analysis of spam marketing conversion

    Chris Kanich;Christian Kreibich;Kirill Levchenko;Brandon Enright

  • Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain

    Kirill Levchenko;Andreas Pitsillidis;Neha Chachra;Brandon Enright

  • An analysis of underground forums

    Marti Motoyama;Damon McCoy;Kirill Levchenko;Stefan Savage

  • Unexpected means of protocol inference

    Justin Ma;Kirill Levchenko;Christian Kreibich;Stefan Savage

  • Manufacturing compromise: the emergence of exploit-as-a-service

    Chris Grier;Lucas Ballard;Juan Caballero;Neha Chachra

  • Re: CAPTCHAs: understanding CAPTCHA-solving services in an economic context

    Marti Motoyama;Kirill Levchenko;Chris Kanich;Damon McCoy

  • California fault lines: understanding the causes and impact of network failures

    Daniel Turner;Kirill Levchenko;Alex C. Snoeren;Stefan Savage

  • A fistful of Bitcoins: characterizing payments among men with no names

    Sarah Meiklejohn;Marjori Pomarole;Grant Jordan;Kirill Levchenko

  • Tracking Ransomware End-to-end

    Danny Yuxing Huang;Maxwell Matthaios Aliapoulios;Vector Guo Li;Luca Invernizzi

  • PharmaLeaks: understanding the business of online pharmaceutical affiliate programs

    Damon McCoy;Andreas Pitsillidis;Grant Jordan;Nicholas Weaver

  • Show me the money: characterizing spam-advertised revenue

    Chris Kanich;Nicholas Weavery;Damon McCoy;Tristan Halvorson

  • Dirty jobs: the role of freelance labor in web service abuse

    Marti Motoyama;Damon McCoy;Kirill Levchenko;Stefan Savage

  • Spamcraft: an inside look at spam campaign orchestration

    Christian Kreibich;Chris Kanich;Kirill Levchenko;Brandon Enright

  • Botnet Judo: Fighting Spam with Itself.

    Andreas Pitsillidis;Kirill Levchenko;Christian Kreibich;Chris Kanich

  • On the spam campaign trail

    Christian Kreibich;Chris Kanich;Kirill Levchenko;Brandon Enright

  • Every microsecond counts: tracking fine-grain latencies with a lossy difference aggregator

    Ramana Rao Kompella;Kirill Levchenko;Alex C. Snoeren;George Varghese

  • Botcoin: Monetizing Stolen Cycles.

    Danny Yuxing Huang;Hitesh Dharmdasani;Sarah Meiklejohn;Vacha Dave

  • Security by Any Other Name: On the Effectiveness of Provider Based Email Security

    Ian D. Foster;Jon Larson;Max Masich;Alex C. Snoeren

  • The heisenbot uncertainty problem: challenges in separating bots from chaff

    Chris Kanich;Kirill Levchenko;Brandon Enright;Geoffrey M. Voelker

  • Spamalytics: an empirical analysis of spam marketing conversion

    Chris Kanich;Christian Kreibich;Kirill Levchenko;Brandon Enright

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Savage
Stefan Savage University of California, San Diego
Geoffrey M. Voelker
Geoffrey M. Voelker University of California, San Diego
Damon McCoy
Damon McCoy New York University
Vern Paxson
Vern Paxson University of California, Berkeley
Alex C. Snoeren
Alex C. Snoeren University of California, San Diego
Nicholas Weaver
Nicholas Weaver International Computer Science Institute
George Varghese
George Varghese University of California, Los Angeles
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick University of California, San Diego
Elie Bursztein
Elie Bursztein Google (United States)

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