Blaine Nelson's Homepage
Current Research:
I'm currently working under Dr. Anthony Joseph to use statistical machine learning techniques in security sensitive environments that could benefit from adaptive automated techniques; in particular, the crux of this research focuses on identifying virus email traffic. The following are my current research interests:
- Security in machine learning - studying the effect a malicious user can have on statistical learning techniques used in security related environments.
- Papers
- Blaine Nelson, and Anthony D. Joseph, Bounding an Attack's Complexity for a Simple Learning Model , In the Proceedings of the First Workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques (SysML) , Saint-Malo, France, June, 2006. pdf
- Marco Barreno, Blaine Nelson, Russell Sears, Anthony D. Joseph, and J. D. Tygar, Can Machine Learning Be Secure? (Invited paper) , In the Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on InformAtion, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS'06) , Taipei, Taiwan, March, 2006. pdf
- On-going Projects
Security of the SpamBayes spam filter
- Security of PCA-based volume anomaly detection
- SAT-based DTP (in progress)
- Clustering with Pairwise Constraints (in progress)
- Adaptive Protection Environment - using machine learning techniques to identify viruses in email traffic.
- Papers
- Marco Barreno, Blaine Nelson, Russell Sears, and Anthony D. Joseph, User Model Transfer for Email Virus Detection, In the Proceedings of the First Workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques (SysML), Saint-Malo, France, June, 2006. pdf
- Steven Martin, Anil Sewani, Blaine Nelson, Karl Chen, and Anthony D. Joseph, Analyzing Behavioral Features for Email Classification, In the Proceedings of the IEEE Second Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 2005), July, 2005. pdf
- On-going Projects
- Duke Landmine Detection project
Papers:
Classes
- Fall 2006
- Stat 210A
- Spring 2006
- CS 294 - AI Algorithms
- Fall 2005
- GSI for CS-188 --> class homepage
- CS 294 Transfer Learning
- Stat 204
- Spring 2005
- Fall 2004
- Spring 2004
- Fall 2003
Interests:
- Biking
- Photography
- SCUBA
- Triathlon
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