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Overview

William Aiello was affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their academic work primarily focused on Computer Science, with subfields of study in Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. The research topics covered by Aiello included Web Application Security Vulnerabilities, Security and Verification in Computing, and Digital and Cyber Forensics.

Aiello's publication record includes contributions to the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)

One of their recent papers was titled "Precise XSS detection and mitigation with Client-side Templates", published in 2020 via arXiv (Cornell University). This work addressed concerns related to cross-site scripting (XSS) security vulnerabilities, an important aspect of web application security.

Their frequent coauthors were:

  • José Carlos Pazos
  • Jean-Sébastien Légaré
  • Ivan Beschastnikh

Throughout their career, Aiello contributed to three publications in Computer Science and two specifically in the subfields of Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. Their work intersected with multiple dimensions of computing security and verification, with two publications each touching on Web Application Security Vulnerabilities, Security and Verification, and Digital and Cyber Forensics.

Best Publications

  • A random graph model for massive graphs

    William Aiello;Fan Chung;Linyuan Lu

  • A random graph model for power law graphs

    William Aiello;Fan Chung;Linyuan Lu

  • Priced Oblivious Transfer: How to Sell Digital Goods

    William Aiello;Yuval Ishai;Omer Reingold

  • Working around BGP: An Incremental Approach to Improving Security and Accuracy in Interdomain Routing.

    Geoffrey Goodell;William Aiello;Timothy Griffin;John Ioannidis

  • Protecting consumer privacy from electric load monitoring

    Stephen McLaughlin;Patrick McDaniel;William Aiello

  • Breaking up is hard to do: security and functionality in a commodity hypervisor

    Patrick Colp;Mihir Nanavati;Jun Zhu;William Aiello

  • Random evolution in massive graphs

    William Aiello;Fan Chung;Linyuan Lu

  • Statistical zero-knowledge languages can be recognized in two rounds

    William Aiello;Johan Hastad

  • Reverse Firewall with Self-Provisioning

    William A. Aiello;Charles Robert Kalmanek;William J. Leighton;Patrick McDaniel

  • Just fast keying: Key agreement in a hostile internet

    William Aiello;Steven M. Bellovin;Matt Blaze;Ran Canetti

  • Competitive queue policies for differentiated services

    William A. Aiello;Yishay Mansour;S. Rajagopolan;Adi Rosén

  • Fast digital identity revocation

    W. Aiello;S. Lodha;R. Ostrovsky

  • Random evolution in massive graphs

    W. Aiello;Fan Chung;Linyuan Lu

  • Efficient, DoS-resistant, secure key exchange for internet protocols

    William Aiello;Steven M. Bellovin;Matt Blaze;John Ioannidis

  • Pseudo-random generator

    William Anthony Aiello;Ramarathnam Venkatesan

  • Fast Digital Identity Revocation (Extended Abstract)

    William Aiello;Sachin Lodha;Rafail Ostrovsky

  • Origin authentication in interdomain routing

    William Aiello;John Ioannidis;Patrick McDaniel

  • Configuration management at massive scale: system design and experience

    W. Enck;T. Moyer;P. McDaniel;S. Sen

  • System having filtering/monitoring of secure connections

    William Aiello;Steven Bellovin;Evan Crandall;Alan Kaplan

  • Shuffler: fast and deployable continuous code re-randomization

    David Williams-King;Graham Gobieski;Kent Williams-King;James P. Blake

  • Origin authentication in interdomain routing

    Patrick McDaniel;William Aiello;Kevin Butler;John Ioannidis

  • Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph

    William Aiello;Andrei Broder;Jeannette Janssen;Evangelos Milios

Frequent Co-Authors

Ramarathnam Venkatesan
Ramarathnam Venkatesan Microsoft (United States)
Patrick McDaniel
Patrick McDaniel University of Wisconsin–Madison
Subhabrata Sen
Subhabrata Sen AT&T (United States)
Steven M. Bellovin
Steven M. Bellovin Columbia University
Charles Robert Kalmanek
Charles Robert Kalmanek AT&T (United States)
Rafail Ostrovsky
Rafail Ostrovsky University of California, Los Angeles
Fan Chung
Fan Chung University of California, San Diego
Aviel D. Rubin
Aviel D. Rubin Johns Hopkins University
Jacobus Van der Merwe
Jacobus Van der Merwe University of Utah
Omer Reingold
Omer Reingold Stanford University

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