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Nikita Borisov is a researcher affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their work spans several fields, primarily within engineering and computer science. Their research interests include topics such as internet traffic analysis, secure electronic voting, privacy-preserving technologies, advanced photonic communication systems, and innovations in concrete and construction materials.

The scientist has contributed to multiple subfields, such as artificial intelligence, electrical and electronic engineering, building and construction, computer networks and communications, and earth-surface processes.

Recent published papers by Nikita Borisov include:

  • Advantages of using textile-reinforced concrete in cantilever structures, 2025, Architecture Construction Transport

Other notable papers related to their frequent coauthors, where Borisov's collaborations are evident, include works published in venues such as Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies and arXiv (Cornell University). These include:

  • Running Refraction Networking for Real, 2020, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • MLEFlow: Learning from History to Improve Load Balancing in Tor, 2021, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • DiProber: Using Dual Probing to Estimate Tor Relay Capacities in Underloaded Networks, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

They have coauthored with researchers including Claudia Díaz, Hussein Darir, Geir E. Dullerud, Oleg Stolyarov, and Benjamin VanderSloot, indicating collaborations across multiple projects and disciplines.

Publication venues where Nikita Borisov frequently appears include:

  • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • Architecture Construction Transport
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Chernye Metally
  • Proceedings of Southwest State University

In addition to journal articles, Borisov has contributed to book publications with Springer Science+Business Media. They have been involved in at least two editions of the book titled Financial Cryptography and Data Security published in 2021.

Their research topics broadly cover:

  • Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  • Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials
  • Building materials and conservation

Best Publications

  • Intercepting mobile communications: the insecurity of 802.11

    Nikita Borisov;Ian Goldberg;David Wagner

  • The Tangled Web of Password Reuse

    Anupam Das;Joseph Bonneau;Matthew Caesar;Nikita Borisov

  • EASiER: encryption-based access control in social networks with efficient revocation

    Sonia Jahid;Prateek Mittal;Nikita Borisov

  • The Ninja architecture for robust Internet-scale systems and services373423

    Steven D. Gribble;Matt Welsh;Rob von Behren;Eric A. Brewer

  • Off-the-record communication, or, why not to use PGP

    Nikita Borisov;Ian Goldberg;Eric Brewer

  • Property Inference Attacks on Fully Connected Neural Networks using Permutation Invariant Representations

    Karan Ganju;Qi Wang;Wei Yang;Carl A. Gunter

  • FlyByNight: mitigating the privacy risks of social networking

    Matthew M. Lucas;Nikita Borisov

  • BotGrep: finding P2P bots with structured graph analysis

    Shishir Nagaraja;Prateek Mittal;Chi-Yao Hong;Matthew Caesar

  • Computational Puzzles as Sybil Defenses

    N. Borisov

  • Denial of service or denial of security

    Nikita Borisov;George Danezis;Prateek Mittal;Parisa Tabriz

  • A Tune-up for Tor: Improving Security and Performance in the Tor Network.

    Robin Snader;Nikita Borisov

  • Detecting AI Trojans Using Meta Neural Analysis

    Xiaojun Xu;Qi Wang;Huichen Li;Nikita Borisov

  • RAINBOW: A Robust And Invisible Non-Blind Watermark for Network Flows.

    Amir Houmansadr;Negar Kiyavash;Nikita Borisov

  • Do You Hear What I Hear?: Fingerprinting Smart Devices Through Embedded Acoustic Components

    Anupam Das;Nikita Borisov;Matthew Caesar

  • Cirripede: circumvention infrastructure using router redirection with plausible deniability

    Amir Houmansadr;Giang T.K. Nguyen;Matthew Caesar;Nikita Borisov

  • Generic Application-Level Protocol Analyzer and its Language.

    Nikita Borisov;David Brumley;Helen J. Wang;John Dunagan

  • DECENT: A decentralized architecture for enforcing privacy in online social networks

    S. Jahid;S. Nilizadeh;P. Mittal;N. Borisov

  • Cachet: a decentralized architecture for privacy preserving social networking with caching

    Shirin Nilizadeh;Sonia Jahid;Prateek Mittal;Nikita Borisov

  • Enabling Privacy-Preserving Incentives for Mobile Crowd Sensing Systems

    Haiming Jin;Lu Su;Bolin Ding;Klara Nahrstedt

  • Tracking Mobile Web Users Through Motion Sensors: Attacks and Defenses.

    Anupam Das;Nikita Borisov;Matthew Caesar

Frequent Co-Authors

Prateek Mittal
Prateek Mittal Princeton University
Amir Houmansadr
Amir Houmansadr University of Massachusetts Amherst
Matthew Caesar
Matthew Caesar University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carl A. Gunter
Carl A. Gunter University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ian Goldberg
Ian Goldberg University of Waterloo
David Wagner
David Wagner University of California, Berkeley
Eric Brewer
Eric Brewer University of California, Berkeley
J. Alex Halderman
J. Alex Halderman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
George Danezis
George Danezis University College London
Klara Nahrstedt
Klara Nahrstedt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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