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Overview

Nicholas Hopper is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. The research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with a focus on several subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Artificial Intelligence; Materials Chemistry; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, particularly in the realm of physical sciences and computer security. Key topics explored include:

  • Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
  • Thermal and Kinetic Analysis
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Lubricants and Their Additives
  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection

Selected recent publications demonstrate the diversity of research areas addressed. Notable papers include:

  • "Measuring and modelling mechanochemical reaction kinetics," 2020, Chemical Communications
  • "GANDaLF: GAN for Data-Limited Fingerprinting," 2021, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • "DeepCoFFEA: Improved Flow Correlation Attacks on Tor via Metric Learning and Amplification," 2022, 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
  • "Inducing High-Energy-Barrier Tribochemical Reaction Pathways; Acetic Acid Decomposition on Copper," 2021, Tribology Letters
  • "RegulaTor: A Straightforward Website Fingerprinting Defense," 2022, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Frequent co-authors associated with this scientist include:

  • Wilfred T. Tysoe
  • Resham Rana
  • Robert Bavisotto
  • François Sidoroff
  • James K Holland

The main venues for publishing research are varied and include specialized journals and conferences, such as:

  • Tribology Letters
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Best Publications

  • CAPTCHA: using hard AI problems for security

    Luis Von Ahn;Manuel Blum;Nicholas J. Hopper;John Langford

  • Secure Human Identification Protocols

    Nicholas J. Hopper;Manuel Blum

  • How much anonymity does network latency leak

    Nicholas Hopper;Eugene Y. Vasserman;Eric Chan-TIN

  • Losing control of the Internet: Using the data plane to attack the control plane

    Max Schuchard;Abedelaziz Mohaisen;Denis Foo Kune;Nicholas Hopper

  • Vampire Attacks: Draining Life from Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks

    E. Y. Vasserman;N. Hopper

  • Provably Secure Steganography

    Nicholas J. Hopper;John Langford;Luis von Ahn

  • Public-key steganography

    Luis Von Ahn;Nicholas J. Hopper

  • Analysis of genetic diversity through population history

    Nicholas Freitag McPhee;Nicholas J. Hopper

  • Keep your friends close: Incorporating trust into social network-based Sybil defenses

    Abedelaziz Mohaisen;Nicholas Hopper;Yongdae Kim

  • Scalable onion routing with torsk

    Jon McLachlan;Andrew Tran;Nicholas Hopper;Yongdae Kim

  • k-anonymous message transmission

    Luis von Ahn;Andrew Bortz;Nicholas J. Hopper

  • Recruiting new tor relays with BRAIDS

    Rob Jansen;Nicholas Hopper;Yongdae Kim

  • Location leaks over the GSM air interface.

    Denis Foo Kune;John Kölndorfer;Nicholas Hopper;Yongdae Kim

  • Routing around decoys

    Max Schuchard;John Geddes;Christopher Thompson;Nicholas Hopper

  • A Secure Human-Computer Authentication Scheme

    Nicholas J. Hopper;Manuel Blum

  • Provably Secure Steganography

    N. Hopper;L. von Ahn;J. Langford

  • Cover your ACKs: pitfalls of covert channel censorship circumvention

    John Geddes;Max Schuchard;Nicholas Hopper

  • Membership-concealing overlay networks

    Eugene Vasserman;Rob Jansen;James Tyra;Nicholas Hopper

  • Attacking the Kad network

    Peng Wang;James Tyra;Eric Chan-Tin;Tyson Malchow

  • Facet: Streaming over Videoconferencing for Censorship Circumvention

    Shuai Li;Mike Schliep;Nick Hopper

  • Attacking the kad network-real world evaluation and high fidelity simulation using DVN

    Peng Wang;James Tyra;Eric Chan-Tin;Tyson Malchow

Frequent Co-Authors

Yongdae Kim
Yongdae Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
John Langford
John Langford Microsoft (United States)
Manuel Blum
Manuel Blum Carnegie Mellon University
Jung Hee Cheon
Jung Hee Cheon Seoul National University
Mikhail J. Atallah
Mikhail J. Atallah Purdue University West Lafayette
Paul Syverson
Paul Syverson United States Naval Research Laboratory
David Wagner
David Wagner University of California, Berkeley
Nikita Borisov
Nikita Borisov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sanjit A. Seshia
Sanjit A. Seshia University of California, Berkeley
Indrajit Ray
Indrajit Ray Colorado State University

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