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Thomas Ristenpart

Thomas Ristenpart

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Computer Science

D-Index
60
Citations
20992
World Ranking
3183
National Ranking
1542

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Thomas Ristenpart is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within computer science and social sciences, with significant contributions in artificial intelligence, sociology and political science, information systems, signal processing, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Their primary research topics include advanced malware detection techniques, chaos-based image and signal encryption, cryptography and data security, cryptographic implementations and security, computability, logic, AI algorithms, privacy, security, and data protection, as well as sexuality, behavior, and technology.

Significant recent papers by Thomas Ristenpart include:

  • "Trauma-Informed Computing: Towards Safer Technology Experiences for All" (2022), published in the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • "Care Infrastructures for Digital Security in Intimate Partner Violence" (2022), published in the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • "Towards Measuring Adversarial Twitter Interactions against Candidates in the US Midterm Elections" (2020), published in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Characterizing Alternative Monetization Strategies on YouTube" (2022), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "So-called privacy breeds evil" (2021), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Ristenpart has collaborated frequently with the following coauthors:

  • Emily Tseng
  • Nicola Dell
  • Yiqing Hua
  • Mor Naaman
  • Rosanna Bellini

The scientist has published extensively in several key venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 12 publications
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction with 4 publications
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems with 2 publications
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media with 1 publication

Among their published books, three were released by Springer Science+Business Media, notably titled "Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2020" in multiple editions during the year 2020.

Thomas Ristenpart was awarded the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Hey, you, get off of my cloud: exploring information leakage in third-party compute clouds

    Thomas Ristenpart;Eran Tromer;Hovav Shacham;Stefan Savage

  • Model Inversion Attacks that Exploit Confidence Information and Basic Countermeasures

    Matt Fredrikson;Somesh Jha;Thomas Ristenpart

  • Stealing machine learning models via prediction APIs

    Florian Tramèr;Fan Zhang;Ari Juels;Michael K. Reiter

  • Cross-VM side channels and their use to extract private keys

    Yinqian Zhang;Ari Juels;Michael K. Reiter;Thomas Ristenpart

  • Message-Locked Encryption and Secure Deduplication

    Mihir Bellare;Sriram Keelveedhi;Thomas Ristenpart

  • DupLESS: Server-Aided Encryption for Deduplicated Storage.

    Mihir Bellare;Sriram Keelveedhi;Thomas Ristenpart

  • Leakage-Abuse Attacks Against Searchable Encryption.

    David Cash;Paul Grubbs;Jason Perry;Thomas Ristenpart

  • Privacy in pharmacogenetics: an end-to-end case study of personalized warfarin dosing

    Matthew Fredrikson;Eric Lantz;Somesh Jha;Simon Lin

  • Peek-a-Boo, I Still See You: Why Efficient Traffic Analysis Countermeasures Fail

    K. P. Dyer;S. E. Coull;T. Ristenpart;T. Shrimpton

  • Machine Learning Models that Remember Too Much

    Congzheng Song;Thomas Ristenpart;Vitaly Shmatikov

  • Cross-Tenant Side-Channel Attacks in PaaS Clouds

    Yinqian Zhang;Ari Juels;Michael K. Reiter;Thomas Ristenpart

  • Peeking behind the curtains of serverless platforms

    Liang Wang;Mengyuan Li;Yinqian Zhang;Thomas Ristenpart

  • Format-Preserving Encryption.

    Mihir Bellare;Thomas Ristenpart;Phillip Rogaway;Till Stegers

  • “A Stalker's Paradise”: How Intimate Partner Abusers Exploit Technology

    Diana Freed;Jackeline Palmer;Diana Minchala;Karen Levy

  • Resource-freeing attacks: improve your cloud performance (at your neighbor's expense)

    Venkatanathan Varadarajan;Thawan Kooburat;Benjamin Farley;Thomas Ristenpart

  • Leakage-Abuse Attacks against Order-Revealing Encryption

    Paul Grubbs;Kevin Sekniqi;Vincent Bindschaedler;Muhammad Naveed

  • Multi-Property-Preserving Hash Domain Extension and the EMD Transform.

    Mihir Bellare;Thomas Ristenpart

  • More for your money: exploiting performance heterogeneity in public clouds

    Benjamin Farley;Ari Juels;Venkatanathan Varadarajan;Thomas Ristenpart

  • The Power of Proofs-of-Possession: Securing Multiparty Signatures against Rogue-Key Attacks.

    Thomas Ristenpart;Scott Yilek

  • Deterministic Encryption: Definitional Equivalences and Constructions without Random Oracles.

    Mihir Bellare;Marc Fischlin;Adam O'Neill;Thomas Ristenpart

  • FIE on firmware: finding vulnerabilities in embedded systems using symbolic execution

    Drew Davidson;Benjamin Moench;Somesh Jha;Thomas Ristenpart

Frequent Co-Authors

Mihir Bellare
Mihir Bellare University of California, San Diego
Ari Juels
Ari Juels Cornell University
Michael M. Swift
Michael M. Swift University of Wisconsin–Madison
Yevgeniy Dodis
Yevgeniy Dodis New York University
Vitaly Shmatikov
Vitaly Shmatikov Cornell University
Damon McCoy
Damon McCoy New York University
Hovav Shacham
Hovav Shacham The University of Texas at Austin
Somesh Jha
Somesh Jha University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael K. Reiter
Michael K. Reiter Duke University
Mor Naaman
Mor Naaman Cornell University

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