Amir Houmansadr

Most-cited papers

Comprehensive Privacy Analysis of Deep Learning: Passive and Active White-box Inference Attacks against Centralized and Federated Learning
Milad Nasr, R. Shokri, Amir Houmansadr
2018IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy1,946 citations Open access
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Manipulating the Byzantine: Optimizing Model Poisoning Attacks and Defenses for Federated Learning
Virat Shejwalkar, Amir Houmansadr
2021Network and Distributed System Security Symposium759 citations Open access
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Machine Learning with Membership Privacy using Adversarial Regularization
Milad Nasr, R. Shokri, Amir Houmansadr
2018Conference on Computer and Communications Security568 citations Open access
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Back to the Drawing Board: A Critical Evaluation of Poisoning Attacks on Production Federated Learning
Virat Shejwalkar, Amir Houmansadr, Peter Kairouz, Daniel Ramage
2021IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy349 citations Open access
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Comprehensive Privacy Analysis of Deep Learning: Stand-alone and Federated Learning under Passive and Active White-box Inference Attacks
Milad Nasr, R. Shokri, Amir Houmansadr
2018arXiv.org296 citations
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Cronus: Robust and Heterogeneous Collaborative Learning with Black-Box Knowledge Transfer
Hong Chang, Virat Shejwalkar, R. Shokri, Amir Houmansadr
2019arXiv.org217 citations
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DeepCorr: Strong Flow Correlation Attacks on Tor Using Deep Learning
Milad Nasr, Alireza Bahramali, Amir Houmansadr
2018Conference on Computer and Communications Security201 citations Open access
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Defeating DNN-Based Traffic Analysis Systems in Real-Time With Blind Adversarial Perturbations
Milad Nasr, Alireza Bahramali, Amir Houmansadr
2021USENIX Security Symposium160 citations
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Membership Privacy for Machine Learning Models Through Knowledge Transfer
Virat Shejwalkar, Amir Houmansadr
2021AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence138 citations Open access
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Mitigating Membership Inference Attacks by Self-Distillation Through a Novel Ensemble Architecture
Xinyu Tang, Saeed Mahloujifar, Liwei Song, Virat Shejwalkar +3 more
2021USENIX Security Symposium127 citations
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Realistic Website Fingerprinting By Augmenting Network Traces
Alireza Bahramali, Ardavan Bozorgi, Amir Houmansadr
2023Conference on Computer and Communications Security102 citations Open access
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Robust Adversarial Attacks Against DNN-Based Wireless Communication Systems
Alireza Bahramali, Milad Nasr, Amir Houmansadr, D. Goeckel +1 more
2021Conference on Computer and Communications Security97 citations Open access
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Information Hiding in Communication Networks: Fundamentals, Mechanisms, Applications, and Countermeasures
W. Mazurczyk, S. Wendzel, S. Zander, Amir Houmansadr +1 more
201697 citations
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Compressive Traffic Analysis: A New Paradigm for Scalable Traffic Analysis
Milad Nasr, Amir Houmansadr, A. Mazumdar
2017Conference on Computer and Communications Security81 citations
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On the Importance of Encrypted-SNI (ESNI) to Censorship Circumvention
Zimo Chai, Amirhossein Ghafari, Amir Houmansadr
2019FOCI @ USENIX Security Symposium73 citations
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Membership Inference Attacks Against NLP Classiﬁcation Models
Virat Shejwalkar, Huseyin A. Inan, Amir Houmansadr, Robert Sim
202168 citations
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How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully Encrypted Traffic
Ming-Luen Wu, Jackson Sippe, D. Sivakumar, J. Burg +6 more
2023USENIX Security Symposium64 citations
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How China Detects and Blocks Shadowsocks
Alice, Bob, Carol, Jan Beznazwy +1 more
2020ACM/SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference58 citations
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Practical Traffic Analysis Attacks on Secure Messaging Applications
Alireza Bahramali, Ramin Soltani, Amir Houmansadr, D. Goeckel +1 more
2020Network and Distributed System Security Symposium58 citations Open access
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Triplet Censors: Demystifying Great Firewall's DNS Censorship Behavior
Arian Akhavan Niaki, Nguyen Phong Hoang, Phillipa Gill, Amir Houmansadr
2020FOCI @ USENIX Security Symposium57 citations
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CovertCast: Using Live Streaming to Evade Internet Censorship
R. McPherson, Amir Houmansadr, V. Shmatikov
2016Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies54 citations Open access
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Improving Deep Learning with Differential Privacy using Gradient Encoding and Denoising
Milad Nasr, R. Shokri, Amir Houmansadr
2020arXiv.org48 citations
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Graphene: A New Protocol for Block Propagation Using Set Reconciliation
A. Ozisik, Gavin Andresen, G. Bissias, Amir Houmansadr +1 more
2017DPM/CBT@ESORICS47 citations
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The Waterfall of Liberty: Decoy Routing Circumvention that Resists Routing Attacks
Milad Nasr, H. Zolfaghari, Amir Houmansadr
2017Conference on Computer and Communications Security47 citations
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Matching Anonymized and Obfuscated Time Series to Users’ Profiles
Nazanin Takbiri, Amir Houmansadr, D. Goeckel, H. Pishro-Nik
2017IEEE Transactions on Information Theory47 citations Open access
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Back to the Drawing Board: A Critical Evaluation of Poisoning Attacks on Federated Learning
Virat Shejwalkar, Amir Houmansadr, Peter Kairouz, Daniel Ramage
2021arXiv.org46 citations
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Practical Censorship Evasion Leveraging Content Delivery Networks
H. Zolfaghari, Amir Houmansadr
2016Conference on Computer and Communications Security46 citations Open access
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Achieving Perfect Location Privacy in Wireless Devices Using Anonymization
Zarrin Montazeri, Amir Houmansadr, H. Pishro-Nik
2016IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security44 citations Open access
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Every Vote Counts: Ranking-Based Training of Federated Learning to Resist Poisoning Attacks
Hamid Mozaffari, Virat Shejwalkar, Amir Houmansadr
2023USENIX Security Symposium38 citations
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Stealing the Decoding Algorithms of Language Models
A. Naseh, Kalpesh Krishna, M. Iyyer, Amir Houmansadr
2023Conference on Computer and Communications Security36 citations Open access
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Comprehensive assessment of run-time hardware-supported malware detection using general and ensemble learning
Hossein Sayadi, S. D., Amir Houmansadr, Setareh Rafatirad +1 more
2018ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers36 citations
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Limits of location privacy under anonymization and obfuscation
Nazanin Takbiri, Amir Houmansadr, D. Goeckel, H. Pishro-Nik
2017International Symposium on Information Theory36 citations
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MassBrowser: Unblocking the Censored Web for the Masses, by the Masses
Milad Nasr, H. Zolfaghari, Amir Houmansadr, Amirhossein Ghafari
2020Network and Distributed System Security Symposium31 citations Open access
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An Analysis of Attacks on Blockchain Consensus
G. Bissias, B. Levine, A. Ozisik, Gavin Andresen +1 more
2016arXiv.org29 citations
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Heterogeneous Private Information Retrieval
Hamid Mozaffari, Amir Houmansadr
2020Network and Distributed System Security Symposium27 citations
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GAME OF DECOYS: Optimal Decoy Routing Through Game Theory
Milad Nasr, Amir Houmansadr
2016Conference on Computer and Communications Security26 citations Open access
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Effectively Using Public Data in Privacy Preserving Machine Learning
Milad Nasr, Saeed Mahloujifar, Xinyu Tang, Prateek Mittal +1 more
2023International Conference on Machine Learning25 citations
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FINN: Fingerprinting Network Flows using Neural Networks
F. Rezaei, Amir Houmansadr
2021Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference22 citations
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Enemy At the Gateways: Censorship-Resilient Proxy Distribution Using Game Theory
Milad Nasr, Sadegh Farhang, Amir Houmansadr, Jens Grossklags
2019Network and Distributed System Security Symposium20 citations Open access
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Machine Learning with Differentially Private Labels: Mechanisms and Frameworks
Xinyu Tang, Milad Nasr, Saeed Mahloujifar, Virat Shejwalkar +3 more
2022Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies19 citations Open access
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Defining perfect location privacy using anonymization
Zarrin Montazeri, Amir Houmansadr, H. Pishro-Nik
2016Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems19 citations
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Fundamental Limits of Covert Packet Insertion
Ramin Soltani, D. Goeckel, D. Towsley, Amir Houmansadr
2019IEEE Transactions on Communications18 citations Open access
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TagIt: Tagging Network Flows using Blind Fingerprints
F. Rezaei, Amir Houmansadr
2017Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies18 citations Open access
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The Perils of Learning From Unlabeled Data: Backdoor Attacks on Semi-supervised Learning
Virat Shejwalkar, L. Lyu, Amir Houmansadr
2022IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision17 citations Open access
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On the Pitfalls of Security Evaluation of Robust Federated Learning
M. Khan, Virat Shejwalkar, Amir Houmansadr, F. Anwar
20232023 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW)16 citations
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Location Privacy Protection for UAVs in Package Delivery and IoT Data Collection
Saeede Enayati, D. Goeckel, Amir Houmansadr, H. Pishro-Nik
2023IEEE Internet of Things Journal16 citations
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Main-Memory Requirements of Big Data Applications on Commodity Server Platform
Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Setareh Rafatirad, Amir Houmansadr, Houman Homayoun
2018IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing16 citations
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Towards provably invisible network flow fingerprints
Ramin Soltani, D. Goeckel, D. Towsley, Amir Houmansadr
2017Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers16 citations Open access
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Privacy of Dependent Users Against Statistical Matching
Nazanin Takbiri, Amir Houmansadr, D. Goeckel, H. Pishro-Nik
2018IEEE Transactions on Information Theory15 citations Open access
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Privacy Against Statistical Matching: Inter-User Correlation
Nazanin Takbiri, Amir Houmansadr, D. Goeckel, H. Pishro-Nik
2018International Symposium on Information Theory15 citations Open access
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