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Lanier A. Watkins
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- affiliation: Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, MD, USA
- affiliation: Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Baltimore, MD, USA
- affiliation (PhD 2010): Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- 2025
[c48]Isaiah Henry-Simpson, Hortencia Mendoza, Anjie Shen, Xuecheng Wang, Yinzhi Cao, Lanier A. Watkins:
Dark Drones: Can They Be Automatically Detected and Mitigated? CNS 2025: 1-6
[c47]Kyle Stein, Brandon Blackwell, Ernest Funue, Matthew Dees, Shari Watkins, Lanier A. Watkins:
Applying Prompt-Based Mitigation of Gender-Role Bias in Large Language Models for Security. CNS 2025: 1-6
[c46]Isaiah Henry-Simpson, Andrew Zitter, Wenda Shao, Xianglong Wang, Chinmay Lohani, Spencer Stevens, Denzel Hamilton, Yinzhi Cao, Lanier A. Watkins:
Drone Security and Navigation Assurance Via Autonomic Cybersecurity. MILCOM 2025: 1-6
[c45]Noah Reneau, Kyle Stein, Brian Walker, Seth Vinson, Lanier A. Watkins:
Generative Model-Driven Code Creation and Vulnerability Analysis for Developmental Applications. MILCOM 2025: 1-6
[c44]Kyle Stein, Aron Price, Justin Donato, Michael Cui, Humberto Ontiveros Garcia, Lanier A. Watkins:
From Packets to Pixels: A Vision Transformer & Few-Shot Learning Approach to Malicious Network Threat Detection. MILCOM 2025: 1-6
[i1]Samuel Nathanson, Alexander Lee, Catherine Chen Kieffer, Jared Junkin, Jessica Ye, Amir Saeed, Melanie Lockhart, Russ Fink, Elisha Peterson, Lanier A. Watkins:
AI Bill of Materials and Beyond: Systematizing Security Assurance through the AI Risk Scanning (AIRS) Framework. CoRR abs/2511.12668 (2025)- 2024
[c43]Luis Rivas, Spencer Stevens, Andrew Zitter
, Vinayak Khandelwal, Amodini Vardhan, Chinmay Lohani, Chris Rouff, Lanier A. Watkins:
Assuring Safe Navigation and Network Operations of Autonomous Ships. CCWC 2024: 138-143
[c42]David Na, Samuel Nathanson, Yungjun Yoo, Yinzhi Cao, Lanier A. Watkins:
Showcasing the Threat of Scalable Generative AI Disinformation through Social Media Simulation. INFOCOM (Workshops) 2024: 1-2
[c41]Samuel Nathanson, Yungjun Yoo, David Na, Yinzhi Cao, Lanier A. Watkins:
A Step Towards Modern Disinformation Detection: Novel Methods for Detecting LLM-Generated Text. MILCOM 2024: 615-620
[c40]Yungjun Yoo, David Na, Samuel Nathanson, Yinzhi Cao, Lanier A. Watkins:
Disinformation at Scale: Detecting AI-Human Composite Images via Convolution Ensembles. MILCOM 2024: 621-626
[c39]Kyle Stein, Alexander Harvey, Aylanna Lopez, Uzma Taj, Shari Watkins, Lanier A. Watkins:
Eliciting and Measuring Toxic Bias in Human-to-Machine Interactions in Large Language Models. UEMCON 2024: 13-19- 2023
[j8]Lanier A. Watkins
, Denzel Hamilton, Tyler A. Young, Sebastián A. Zanlongo, Louis L. Whitcomb
, Andrew R. Spielvogel, Barbara Kobzik-Juul:
The Roles of Autonomy and Assurance in the Future of Uncrewed Aircraft Systems in Low-Altitude Airspace Operations. Computer 56(7): 41-53 (2023)
[j7]Joseph Maurio, Paul Wood, Sebastián A. Zanlongo, Josh Silbermann, Tamim Sookoor
, Alberto Lorenzo, Randall Sleight, James Rogers, Daniel Muller, Noah Armiger, Christopher A. Rouff
, Lanier A. Watkins:
Agile services and analysis framework for autonomous and autonomic critical infrastructure. Innov. Syst. Softw. Eng. 19(2): 145-156 (2023)
[c38]Valeti Manoj, Shao Wenda, Sihan Niu, Christopher A. Rouff, Lanier A. Watkins, Aviel Rubin:
Explainable Autonomic Cybersecurity For Industrial Control Systems. CCWC 2023: 900-9006
[c37]Lanier A. Watkins, Denzel Hamilton, Chad Mello, Tyler A. Young, Sebastián A. Zanlongo, Barbara Kobzik-Juul, Randall Sleight:
A Hasty Grid S&R Prototype Using Autonomous UTM and AI-Based Mission Coordination. INFOCOM Workshops 2023: 1-6
[c36]Taylor Bradley, Lanier A. Watkins, Elie Alhajjar
:
Autonomic Cyber Security Enhanced with Survival Analysis (ACSeSA). LCN 2023: 1-9- 2022
[j6]Christopher A. Rouff, Lanier A. Watkins:
Assured Autonomy Survey. Found. Trends Priv. Secur. 4(1): 1-116 (2022)
[c35]Hedin Beattie, Lanier A. Watkins, William H. Robinson, Aviel D. Rubin, Shari Watkins:
Measuring and Mitigating Bias in AI-Chatbots. ICAA 2022: 117-123
[c34]James Cervini, Daniel Muller, Alexander Beall, Joseph Maurio, Aviel Rubin, Lanier A. Watkins:
Trusted Virtualization-Based Programmable Logic Controller Resilience Using a Backfit Approach. Critical Infrastructure Protection 2022: 103-117- 2021
[c33]Lanier A. Watkins, Denzel Hamilton, Kevin T. Kornegay
, Aviel Rubin:
Triaging Autonomous Drone Faults By Simultaneously Assuring Autonomy and Security. CISS 2021: 1-6
[c32]Christopher A. Rouff, Lanier A. Watkins, Roy Sterritt, Salim Hariri:
SoK: Autonomic Cybersecurity - Securing Future Disruptive Technologies. CSR 2021: 66-72
[c31]Lanier A. Watkins, Nick Sarfaraz, Sebastián A. Zanlongo, Joshua Silbermann, Tyler A. Young, Randall Sleight:
An Investigative Study Into An Autonomous UAS Traffic Management System For Congested Airspace Safety. ICC Workshops 2021: 1-6
[c30]Karl Siil, Aviel Rubin, Matthew Elder, Anton Dahbura
, Matthew Green, Lanier A. Watkins:
Cost-Effective Mission Assurance Engineering Through Simulation. IoTaIS 2021: 67-72
[c29]James Schaffter
, Aviel Rubin, Lanier A. Watkins:
A Containerization-Based Backfit Approach for Industrial Control System Resiliency. SP (Workshops) 2021: 246-252- 2020
[c28]Denzel Hamilton, Kevin T. Kornegay
, Lanier A. Watkins:
Autonomous Navigation Assurance with Explainable AI and Security Monitoring. AIPR 2020: 1-7
[c27]Adrian Cartagena, Gerald Rimmer, Thomas van Dalsen, Lanier A. Watkins, William H. Robinson, Aviel D. Rubin:
Privacy Violating Opensource Intelligence Threat Evaluation Framework: A Security Assessment Framework For Critical Infrastructure Owners. CCWC 2020: 494-499
[c26]Jeffrey S. Chavis, Anna L. Buczak, Aviel D. Rubin, Lanier A. Watkins:
Connected Home Automated Security Monitor (CHASM): Protecting IoT Through Application of Machine Learning. CCWC 2020: 684-690
[c25]Lanier A. Watkins, James Ballard, Kevin Hamilton, Jay Chow, Aviel D. Rubin, William H. Robinson, Cleon Davis:
Bio-Inspired, Host-based Firewall. CSE 2020: 86-91
[c24]Mandira Hegde, Gilles Kepnang, Mashail Al Mazroei, Jeffrey S. Chavis, Lanier A. Watkins:
Identification of Botnet Activity in IoT Network Traffic Using Machine Learning. IDSTA 2020: 21-27
[c23]Zachary Birnbaum, Matthew Davis, Salman Salman, James Schaffter, Lanier A. Watkins, Saikiran Yamajala, Shruti Paul:
Cyber-Resilient SCADA Systems via Secure State Restoration. Critical Infrastructure Protection 2020: 183-207
[c22]Karl Siil, Aviel D. Rubin, Matthew Elder, Anton Dahbura, Matthew Green, Lanier A. Watkins:
Mission Assurance for Autonomous Undersea Vehicles. SP (Workshops) 2020: 244-249
[c21]Jeffrey S. Chavis, Anna L. Buczak, Aaron Kunz, Aviel D. Rubin, Lanier A. Watkins:
A Capability for Autonomous IoT System Security: Pushing IoT Assurance to the Edge. SP (Workshops) 2020: 256-261
[c20]Lanier A. Watkins, Yue Yu, Sifan Li, William H. Robinson, Aviel D. Rubin:
Using Deep Learning to Identify Security Risks of Personal Mobile Devices in Enterprise Networks. UEMCON 2020: 292-297
[c19]Lanier A. Watkins, Kevin D. Fairbanks, Chengyu Li, Mengdi Yang, William H. Robinson, Aviel D. Rubin:
A Black Box Approach to Inferring, Characterizing, and Breaking Native Device Tracking Autonomy. UEMCON 2020: 303-308
2010 – 2019
- 2018
[c18]Cherita L. Corbett, Jimmy Alexis, Lanier A. Watkins:
Who's driving you? CCNC 2018: 1-4
[c17]Lanier A. Watkins, Amritha Lal Kalathummarath, William H. Robinson:
Network-based detection of mobile malware exhibiting obfuscated or silent network behavior. CCNC 2018: 1-4- 2017
[c16]Nikunj Malik, Jayanarayan Chandramouli, Prahlad Suresh, Kevin D. Fairbanks, Lanier A. Watkins, William H. Robinson:
Using network traffic to verify mobile device forensic artifacts. CCNC 2017: 1-6
[c15]Nikunj Malik
, Jayanarayan Chandramouli, Prahlad Suresh, Kevin D. Fairbanks, Lanier A. Watkins, William H. Robinson
:
Using network traffic to verify mobile device forensic artifacts. CCNC 2017: 114-119
[c14]J. M. Chandramouli, Juan Ramos, Lakshmi Srinivasan, Prahlad Suresh, Prashanth Kannan, Garth V. Crosby
, Lanier A. Watkins:
Using network traffic to infer compromised neighbors in wireless sensor nodes. CCNC 2017: 1022-1023
[c13]Lanier A. Watkins, Sean Beck, Jared Zook, Anna L. Buczak, Jeffrey S. Chavis, William H. Robinson
, Jose Andre Morales, Samuel Mishra:
Using semi-supervised machine learning to address the Big Data problem in DNS networks. CCWC 2017: 1-6
[c12]Anna L. Buczak, Daniel S. Berman, Sean W. Yen, Lanier A. Watkins, Lien T. Duong, Jeffrey S. Chavis:
Using sequential pattern mining for common event format (CEF) cyber data. CISRC 2017: 2:1-2:4
[c11]Forest C. Mead, Jeffrey M. Zielinski, Lanier A. Watkins, William H. Robinson
:
A mobile two-way wireless covert timing channel suitable for peer-to-peer malware. PIMRC 2017: 1-6- 2016
[j5]Lanier A. Watkins, John S. Hurley:
The Next Generation of Scientific-Based Risk Metrics: Measuring Cyber Maturity. Int. J. Cyber Warf. Terror. 6(3): 43-52 (2016)
[c10]Anna L. Buczak, Paul A. Hanke, George J. Cancro, Michael K. Toma, Lanier A. Watkins, Jeffrey S. Chavis:
Detection of Tunnels in PCAP Data by Random Forests. CISRC 2016: 16:1-16:4
[c9]Michael Hooper, Yifan Tian, Runxuan Zhou, Bin Cao, Adrian P. Lauf
, Lanier A. Watkins, William H. Robinson
, Wlajimir Alexis:
Securing commercial WiFi-based UAVs from common security attacks. MILCOM 2016: 1213-1218- 2015
[j4]Lanier A. Watkins, William H. Robinson
, Raheem A. Beyah
:
Using Network Traffic to Infer Hardware State: A Kernel-Level Investigation. ACM Trans. Embed. Comput. Syst. 14(3): 55:1-55:22 (2015)
[c8]Georgios Lontorfos, Kevin D. Fairbanks
, Lanier A. Watkins, William H. Robinson
:
Remotely inferring device manipulation of industrial control systems via network behavior. LCN Workshops 2015: 603-610
[c7]Lanier A. Watkins, Kurt Silberberg, Jose Andre Morales, William H. Robinson
:
Using inherent command and control vulnerabilities to halt DDoS attacks. MALWARE 2015: 3-10- 2014
[c6]Lanier A. Watkins, Garth V. Crosby
, Afsana Sharmin:
Using network traffic to infer power levels in wireless sensor nodes. ICNC 2014: 864-870
[c5]Mengchao Yue, William H. Robinson
, Lanier A. Watkins, Cherita L. Corbett:
Constructing timing-based covert channels in mobile networks by adjusting CPU frequency. HASP@ISCA 2014: 2:1-2:8
[c4]Lanier A. Watkins, Christina Kawka, Cherita L. Corbett, William H. Robinson
:
Fighting banking botnets by exploiting inherent command and control vulnerabilities. MALWARE 2014: 93-100- 2011
[j3]Lanier A. Watkins
, William H. Robinson
, Raheem A. Beyah
:
A Passive Solution to the CPU Resource Discovery Problem in Cluster Grid Networks. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. 22(12): 2000-2007 (2011)- 2010
[j2]Lanier A. Watkins
, William H. Robinson
, Raheem A. Beyah
:
A Passive Solution to the Memory Resource Discovery Problem in Computational Clusters. IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag. 7(4): 218-230 (2010)
2000 – 2009
- 2009
[j1]Lanier A. Watkins
, Raheem A. Beyah
, Cherita L. Corbett:
Using link RTT to passively detect unapproved wireless nodes. Int. J. Secur. Networks 4(3): 153-163 (2009)- 2008
[c3]Lanier A. Watkins
, Raheem A. Beyah
, Cherita L. Corbett:
Passive Identification of Under-Utilized CPUs in High Performance Cluster Grid Networks. ICC 2008: 408-413- 2007
[c2]Lanier A. Watkins
, Raheem A. Beyah
, Cherita L. Corbett:
A Passive Approach to Rogue Access Point Detection. GLOBECOM 2007: 355-360
[c1]Lanier A. Watkins, Raheem A. Beyah
, Cherita L. Corbett:
Using network traffic to passively detect under utilized resources in high performance cluster grid computing environments. GridNets 2007: 16
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aka: Aviel Rubin

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