A mostly complete list of my publications:

Sorted by category and date. Please email me with any questions or comments, and I will respond as quickly as I can.

Various academic profiles: Google Scholar ORCID DBLP

Peer-reviewed journals:

  1. Pascal Hitzler, Rushrukh Rayan, Joseph Zalewski, Sanaz Saki Norouzi, Aaron Eberhart, and Eugene Y. Vasserman. "Deep deductive reasoning is a hard deep learning problem." In Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence, March 2025.
  2. Chandra Sharma, Samuel Moylan, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and George T. Amariucai. "Review of the security of backward-compatible automotive inter-ECU communication." In IEEE Access, August 2021.
  3. Hong Liu and Eugene Y. Vasserman. "Side-channel programming for software integrity checking." In EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety (SESA), June 2021.
  4. Qais Tasali, Christine Sublett, and Eugene Y. Vasserman. "Controlled BTG: Toward flexible emergency override in interoperable medical systems." In EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety (SESA), February 2020.
  5. Michael Schliep, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and Nicholas Hopper. "Consistent synchronous group off-the-record messaging with SYM-GOTR." In Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS/PoPETs), Volume 3, 2018.
  6. Gary L. Brase, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and William Hsu. "Do different mental models influence cybersecurity behavior? Evaluations via statistical reasoning performance." In Frontiers in Psychology, November 2017.
  7. Eugene Y. Vasserman and John Hatcliff. "Foundational security principles for medical application platforms." In Information Security Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 8267: 213–217, March 2014.
  8. Abedelaziz Mohaisen, Denis Foo Kune, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and Yongdae Kim. "Secure encounter-based mobile social networks: Requirements, designs, and tradeoffs." In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 10(6): 380–393, November/December 2013. [preprint]
  9. Eugene Y. Vasserman and Nicholas Hopper. "Vampire attacks: Draining life from wireless ad-hoc networks." In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 12(2): 318–332, February 2013.
  10. Nicholas Hopper, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and Eric Chan-Tin. "How much anonymity does network latency leak?" In ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), 13(2): 1–28, February 2010. (© 2010 ACM)
  11. Eugene Y. Vasserman, Nicholas Hopper, and James Tyra. "SilentKnock: Practical, provably undetectable authentication." In International Journal of Information Security, 8(2): 121–135, April 2009.

Peer-reviewed conferences and workshops:

  1. Josiah Dykstra, Shannon Lantzy, and eugene Y. Vasserman. (Position paper) "A Moonshot for Trustworthy Medical Software Updates Using Automated Insulin Delivery Systems as a Proving Ground." In Proceedings of the ACSAC Cybersecurity in Healthcare Workshop (HealthSec), December 2025. [presentation slides]
  2. Rodolfo da Silva Avelino, Elise Bolda, Guenevere Qian Chen, Diane Dolezel, Jon Mark Hirshon, Joseph Kane, Sarah Klein, C. Scott Kruse, Bruce Leff, David M. Levine, Michael Maniaci, Monique K. Mansoura, Patricia McGaffigan, John McHugh, Fábio Roberto de Miranda, Subhas Mukhopadhyay, Jay Pandit, Gregory Pluta, Martin Pumera, Raj Rajagopalan, Esa Rantanen, Richard Rothman, Rami Saydjari, O. Sami Saydjari, Malcolm Schongalla, John Schumacher, Naomi Schwartz, Kevalkumar Kishorbhai Sonigara, Natalie Sullivan, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Thad Wilkins, Christopher Worsham, and William Yurcik. "SoK: Hospital at Home Model of Care – Toward Appropriate Use Cases and Other Challenges." In Proceedings of the ACSAC Cybersecurity in Healthcare Workshop (HealthSec), December 2025.
  3. Ronald E. Thompson III, Luke Boshar, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and Daniel Votipka. "Navigating the Patchwork: Investigating the Availability and Consistency of Public Security Advisories." In Proceedings of the IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev), October 2025.
  4. Stephen Miller, Christopher Simpson, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and Susanne Wetzel. "An Evaluation Process for Tools that Build or Evidence Competency in Cybersecurity: Development and Lessons Learned." In Proceedings of the IFIP World Conference on Information Security Education (WISE), July 2025.
  5. Ke Dong, William Hsu, Pascal Hitzler, and Eugene Y. Vasserman. "On the logical (in)consistency of code-generating LLMs." In Proceedings of Generative and Neurosymbolic AI in Software Engineering (GenSE), February 2025.
  6. Award Abhilekha Dalal, Rushrukh Rayan, Adrita Barua, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Md Kamruzzaman Sarker, and Pascal Hitzler. "On the Value of Labeled Data and Symbolic Methods for Hidden Neuron Activation Analysis." In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy), 2024. [arXiv preprint]
  7. Stephanie Harshbarger, Bala Natarajan, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Muhammad Farooq Umar, Mohammad Shadmand, and George Amariucai. "On Zero-Dynamics Stealthy Attacks with Learned State Space Models." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE), 2024.
  8. Award William Bergeron, Michael Jones, Chase Barber, Kale DeYoung, George Amariucai, Kaleb Ernst, Nathan Fleming, Peter Michaleas, Sandeep Pisharody, Nathan Wells, Antonio Rosa, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and Jeremy Kepner. "Hypersparse Traffic Matrix Construction using GraphBLAS on a DPU." In Proceedings of the IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), 2023. Outstanding short paper award
  9. Christopher A. F. Hass, Shams El-Adawy, Scott V. Franklin, Mary Bridget Kustusch, Eleanor C. Sayre, and Eugene Y. Vasserman. "Emerging Education Research Practitioners and Theory." In Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS), 2023.
  10. Shams El-Adawy, Christopher Hass, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Mary Bridget Kustusch, Scott V. Franklin, and Eleanor C. Sayre. "A Professional Development Program for Emerging Physics Education Researchers." In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, 2023.
  11. Stephanie Harshbarger, Mohsen Hosseinzadehtaher, Bala Natarajan, Eugene Vasserman, Mohammad Shadmand, and George Amariucai. "(A little) Ignorance is bliss: The effect of imperfect model information on stealthy attacks in power grids." In Proceedings of the IEEE Kansas Power and Energy Conference (KPEC), 2020.
  12. Michael Schliep, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and Nicholas Hopper. "Consistent synchronous group off-the-record messaging with SYM-GOTR." In Proceedings of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS/PoPETs), 2018.
  13. Chandan Chowdhury, Dalton Hahn, Matthew French, Pratyusa Manadhata, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and Alexandru G. Bardas. "eyeDNS: Monitoring a university campus network." In Proceedings of the IEEE Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium (ICC CISS), 2018.
  14. John Hatcliff, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Todd Carpenter, and Rand Whillock. "Challenges of distributed risk management for medical application platforms." In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering (ISPCE), 2018. [preprint]
  15. Todd Carpenter, John Hatcliff, and Eugene Y. Vasserman. "A reference separation architecture for mixed-criticality medical and IoT devices." In Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings), 2017.
  16. Yujin Kwon, Dohyun Kim, Yunmok Son, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and Yongdae Kim. "Be selfish and avoid dilemmas: Fork after withholding (FAW) attacks on Bitcoin." In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), 2017. [preprint]
  17. Hong Liu and Eugene Y. Vasserman. "Gray-box software integrity checking via side-channels." In Proceedings of the EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), 2017. [preprint]
  18. Mikael Lindvall, Madeline Diep, Michele Klein, Paul Jones, Yi Zhang, and Eugene Vasserman. "Safety-focused security requirements elicitation for medical device software." In Proceedings of the IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE) Industry Track, 2017.
  19. Sam Procter, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and John Hatcliff. "SAFE and secure: Deeply integrating security in a new hazard analysis." In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software Assurance (SAW), 2017.
  20. Qais Tasali, Chandan Chowdhury, and Eugene Y. Vasserman. "A flexible authorization architecture for systems of interoperable medical devices." In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), 2017.
  21. Krishna Venkatasubramanian, Jinhyun Kim, Oleg Sokolsky, Vasiliki Sfyrla, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and Insup Lee. "Detecting interoperability failures in interoperable medical device systems." In Proceedings of the Monitoring and Testing of CPS workshop, 2017.
  22. Hongmei Chi, Stephen Welch, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and Ezhil Kalaimannan. "A framework of cybersecurity approaches in precision agriculture." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cyber Warfare & Security (ICCWS), 2017.
  23. Kat Krol, Muhammad Sajidur Rahman, Simon Parkin, Emiliano De Cristofaro, and Eugene Y. Vasserman. "An exploratory study of user perceptions of payment methods in UK and US." In Proceedings of the Usable Security (USEC) workshop, 2016.
  24. Yang Xue and Eugene Y. Vasserman. "Simple and compact flow fingerprinting robust to transit through low-latency anonymous networks." In Proceedings of the Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2016.
  25. Hong Liu, Hongmin Li, and Eugene Y. Vasserman. "Practicality of using side-channel analysis for software integrity checking of embedded systems." In Proceedings of the EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), 2015.
  26. Krishna Venkatasubramanian, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Vasiliki Sfyrla, Oleg Sokolsky, and Insup Lee. "Requirement engineering for functional alarm system for interoperable medical devices." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability & Security (SAFECOMP), 2015.
  27. Scott Bell, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and Eleanor Sayre. "Developing and piloting a quantitative assessment tool for cybersecurity courses." In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, 2015. [preprint]
  28. Carlos Salazar and Eugene Vasserman. "Retrofitting communication security into a publish/subscribe middleware platform." In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software Engineering in Healthcare (FHIES/SEHC), 2014.
  29. Scott Bell, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and Daniel Andresen. "Developing and assessing a multi-factor authentication protocol for revocable distributed storage in a mobile wireless network." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Management, 2014.
  30. Richard Scott Bell, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and Eleanor Sayre. "A longitudinal study of students in an introductory cybersecurity course." In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, 2014.
  31. Scott Bell, Tim Frey, and Eugene Y. Vasserman. "Spreading the word: Introducing pre-service teachers to programming in the K-12 classroom." In Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), 2014.
  32. Krishna K. Venkatasubramanian, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Oleg Sokolsky, and Insup Lee. "Functional alarms for systems of interoperable medical devices (Fast Abstract)." In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering (HASE), 2014.
  33. Hong Liu, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and Nicholas Hopper. "Improved group Off-The-Record messaging." In Proceedings of the Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), 2013. [preprint]
  34. Eugene Y. Vasserman and John Hatcliff. "Foundational security principles for medical application platforms (Extended abstract)." In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Security Applications (WISA), 2013. [preprint]
  35. Sumeet Gujrati and Eugene Y. Vasserman. "The usability of TrueCrypt, or how I learned to stop whining and fix an interface." In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CoDASPY), 2013.
  36. Denis Foo Kune, Krishna Venkatasubramanian, and Eugene Y. Vasserman. "Toward a safe integrated clinical environment: A communication security perspective." In Proceedings of the Workshop on Medical Communication Systems (MedCOMM), 2012.
  37. Eugene Y. Vasserman, Victor Heorhiadi, Nicholas Hopper, and Yongdae Kim. "One-way indexing for plausible deniability in censorship resistant storage." In Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI), 2012.
  38. Jayson Sharp, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Daniel Andresen, and John Hatcliff. "Towards an ICE-compliant logger within MDCF." In Proceedings of the Workshop on Infrastructure, Tools, and Technologies for Systems of Systems of Medical Devices (SoSMD), 2011.
  39. John Hatcliff, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Sandy Weininger, and Julian Goldman. "An overview of regulatory and trust issues for the integrated clinical environment." In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop On High Confidence Medical Devices, Software, and Systems & Medical Device Plug-and-Play Interoperability (HCMDSS/MD PnP), 2011.
  40. Max Schuchard, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Abedelaziz Mohaisen, Denis Foo Kune, Nicholas Hopper, and Yongdae Kim. "Losing control of the Internet: Using the data plane to attack the control plane." In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2011.
  41. Eugene Y. Vasserman, Nicholas Hopper, James Tyra, Rob Jansen, and Yongdae Kim. "Membership concealing overlay networks." In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), 2009.
  42. Nicholas Hopper, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and Eric Chan-Tin. "How much anonymity does latency leak?" In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), 2007.
  43. Eugene Y. Vasserman, Nicholas Hopper, John Laxson, and James Tyra. "SilentKnock: Practical, provably undetectable authentication." In Proceedings of the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2007.
  44. Ivan Osipkov, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Nicholas Hopper and Yongdae Kim. "Combating double-spending using cooperative P2P systems." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2007.
  45. Nicholas Hopper and Eugene Y. Vasserman. "On the effectiveness of k-anonymity against traffic analysis and surveillance." In Proceedings of the Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), 2006. [preprint]

Invited papers:

  1. Robert D. Jensen, Scot Copeland, Stephanie Domas, Rick Hampton, Ken Hoyme, Michelle Jump, Inhel Rekik, Suzanne Schwartz, and Eugene Y. Vasserman. "A roundtable discussion: Thawing out healthcare technology's 'Special Snowflake' cybersecurity challenges." In Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, 51(s6): 10–16, 2017.
  2. Sean Loughlin, Kevin Fu, Tim Gee, Izabella Gieras, Ken Hoyme, S Raj Rajagopalan, Ben Ransford, \bme, and Axel Wirth. "A Roundtable Discussion: Safeguarding information and resources against emerging cybersecurity threats." In Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, 48(s8): 8–17, 2014.
  3. Eugene Y. Vasserman, Krishna K. Venkatasubramanian, Oleg Sokolsky, and Insup Lee. "Security and interoperable-medical-device systems, part 2: Failures, consequences, and classification." In IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, 10(6): 70–73, 2012. [preprint]
  4. Krishna K. Venkatasubramanian, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Oleg Sokolsky, and Insup Lee. "Security and interoperable-medical-device systems, part 1." In IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, 10(5): 61–63, 2012. [preprint]
  5. John Hatcliff, Andrew King, Insup Lee, Alasdair MacDonald, Anura Fernando, Michael Robkin, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Sandy Weininger, and Julian M. Goldman. "Rationale and architecture principles for medical application platforms." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), 2012.

Book chapters:

  1. Abhilekha Dalal, Rushrukh Rayan, Adrita Barua, Samatha Ereshi Akkamahadevi, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and Pascal Hitzler. "Using Ontologies to Increase Trust in Deep Learning Systems." In Gerald Hartung, Frederik Schlupkothen, Karl-Heinrich Schmidt (eds.), To appear in Trusting Documents. De Gruyter Brill, Berlin. To appear.
  2. Abhilekha Dalal, Rushrukh Rayan, Adrita Barua, Samatha Ereshi Akkamahadevi, Md Kamruzzaman Sarker, Cara Widmer, Pascal Hitzler, and Eugene Y. Vasserman. "Individual CNN Hidden-Layer Neurons Are Good Concept Encoders." In Pascal Hitzler, Abhilekha Dalal, Mohammad Saeid Mahdavinejad, Sanaz Saki Norouzi (eds.), Handbook on Neurosymbolic AI and Knowledge Graphs. Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence and Applications vol. 400, 808–817, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2025.
  3. eugene Y. Vasserman. "Security." In Fowler and Silver, Developing and Managing Embedded Systems and Products: Methods, Techniques, Tools, Processes, and Teamwork. Newnes, 2014. (All my proceeds from this publication, if any, will be donated to support open access publishing.)

Other:

  1. Scott Bell, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and Daniel Andresen. "Multi-factor authentication for more resilient distributed storage in wireless networks." Kansas State University Technical Report, 2013.
  2. Hun Jeong Kang, Aaram Yun, Eugene Y. Vasserman, and Yongdae Kim. i-Code: A new approach to practical network coding for content distribution." University of Minnesota Computer Science and Engineering Technical Report 11-004, 2011.
  3. Eugene Y. Vasserman. "Towards freedom of speech on the Internet: Censorship-resistant communication and storage." Ph.D. Dissertation, 2010.

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