2026 Nick Feamster: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	82	959	928	519	500	352	27849

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - ACM Fellow For data-driven studies of Internet security and Internet censorship.
2008 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Nick Feamster is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and specializes in computer science with a focus on computer networks and communications. Their work also encompasses related subfields such as artificial intelligence, sociology and political science, electrical and electronic engineering, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Their research covers a range of topics including:

Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Network Traffic and Congestion Control
Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
Wireless Networks and Protocols
Software-Defined Networks and 5G

Nick Feamster has contributed extensively to academic literature, with notable recent papers such as:

"IoT Inspector" (2020), published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
"#bias: Measuring the Tweeting Behavior of Propagandists" (2021), published in the Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"Measuring internet speed" (2020), published in Communications of the ACM
"An Efficient One-Class SVM for Anomaly Detection in the Internet of Things" (2021), published on arXiv (Cornell University)
"NetDiffusion: Network Data Augmentation Through Protocol-Constrained Traffic Generation" (2024), published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems

Their frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems
SSRN Electronic Journal
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

Nick Feamster has worked collaboratively with several frequent co-authors, including:

Paul Schmitt
Francesco Bronzino
Shinan Liu
Nicole P. Marwell
Marshini Chetty

Among their recognitions, Nick Feamster was named an ACM Fellow in 2016, cited for data-driven studies of Internet security and Internet censorship. Earlier, in 2008, they became a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

Improving network management with software defined networking

Hyojoon Kim;N. Feamster

1771
Citations
The road to SDN: an intellectual history of programmable networks

Nick Feamster;Jennifer Rexford;Ellen Zegura

1512
Citations
Machine Learning DDoS Detection for Consumer Internet of Things Devices

Rohan Doshi;Noah Apthorpe;Nick Feamster

1053
Citations
In VINI veritas: realistic and controlled network experimentation

Andy Bavier;Nick Feamster;Mark Huang;Larry Peterson

845
Citations
Understanding the network-level behavior of spammers

Anirudh Ramachandran;Nick Feamster

834
Citations
How to lease the internet in your spare time

Nick Feamster;Lixin Gao;Jennifer Rexford

805
Citations
Design and implementation of a routing control platform

Matthew Caesar;Donald Caldwell;Nick Feamster;Jennifer Rexford

764
Citations
Building a dynamic reputation system for DNS

Manos Antonakakis;Roberto Perdisci;David Dagon;Wenke Lee

612
Citations
Behavioral clustering of HTTP-based malware and signature generation using malicious network traces

Roberto Perdisci;Wenke Lee;Nick Feamster

496
Citations
Accountable internet protocol (aip)

David G. Andersen;Hari Balakrishnan;Nick Feamster;Teemu Koponen

492
Citations
The case for separating routing from routers

Nick Feamster;Hari Balakrishnan;Jennifer Rexford;Aman Shaikh

482
Citations
User Perceptions of Smart Home IoT Privacy

Serena Zheng;Noah Apthorpe;Marshini Chetty;Nick Feamster

467
Citations
Detecting BGP configuration faults with static analysis

Nick Feamster;Hari Balakrishnan

457
Citations
Broadband internet performance: a view from the gateway

Srikanth Sundaresan;Walter de Donato;Nick Feamster;Renata Teixeira

447
Citations
SDX: a software defined internet exchange

Arpit Gupta;Laurent Vanbever;Muhammad Shahbaz;Sean Patrick Donovan

443
Citations
Method and system for detecting and responding to attacking networks

David Dagon;Nick Feamster;Wenke Lee;Robert Edmonds

415
Citations
Filtering spam with behavioral blacklisting

Anirudh Ramachandran;Nick Feamster;Santosh Vempala

384
Citations
Revealing botnet membership using DNSBL counter-intelligence

Anirudh Ramachandran;Nick Feamster;David Dagon

353
Citations
Procera: a language for high-level reactive network control

Andreas Voellmy;Hyojoon Kim;Nick Feamster

351
Citations
A Smart Home is No Castle: Privacy Vulnerabilities of Encrypted IoT Traffic

Noah J. Apthorpe;Dillon Reisman;Nick Feamster

292
Citations
Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation

Nick Feamster;Jeff Mogul

73
Citations
Notos: Building a Dynamic Reputation System for DNS

Manos Antonakakis;Roberto Perdisci;David Dagon;Wenke Lee

26
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer Rexford Princeton University

Hari Balakrishnan MIT

Renata Teixeira French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

Wenke Lee Georgia Institute of Technology

Vern Paxson University of California, Berkeley

Scott Shenker University of California, Berkeley

Prateek Mittal Princeton University

Ramesh Johari Stanford University

David G. Andersen Carnegie Mellon University

Ethan Katz-Bassett Columbia University

External Links

Personal website of Nick Feamster Google Scholar page

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