Curriculum vitae

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May 2026
Ph.D., Data Science & Analytics The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
— Dissertation: Toward a General Science of Secure Protocol Networks: Measuring and Improving Privacy, Security, and Resilience in Planet-Scale Decentralized Systems. — Advisor: Dr. Anindya Maiti. — Gallogly College of Engineering Dissertation Excellence Award.
2020
M.P.S., Data Science & Analytics The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
— Topics: NLU/NLP, machine learning.
2016
B.S. with Honors, Industrial & Labor Relations Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
— Honors thesis: Can the Government and Military Compete with Private Sector Companies for Technical Talent? — Topics: Human Resource Studies, Global Labor, Statistics & Information Science. — Ives Senior Award.

2026 – Present
Postdoctoral Associate ILR School, Cornell University
— Future of Work Fellow. — Cornell AI Experimenters Faculty Fellow.
2023 – 2025
Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Oklahoma
— School of Computer Science. — Data Science and Analytics Institute.
2022 – 2023
Graduate Research Assistant University of Oklahoma
— School of Computer Science.

Two journal articles and ten peer-reviewed conference papers, newest first.

2026
Front-Running the Red Carpet: A Measurement Study of Media Torrent Leaks and User Risks Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media (JQD:DM)
— Seidenberger, S., Pursell, N., & Maiti, A. To appear. — doi 10.51685/jqd.2026.014
Journal article
2026
What Should I Become? When LLMs Present a Slice of Opportunity as the Whole 9th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES-26)
— Wise, T., Seidenberger, S., & Maiti, A. To appear.
Conference paper
2026
Prompt and Circumstances: Evaluating the Efficacy of Human Prompt Inference in AI-Generated Art EvoMUSART 2026
— Trinh, K., Seidenberger, S., Spracklen, J., Wijewickrama, R., Viswanath, B., Jadliwala, M., & Maiti, A. — doi 10.1007/978-3-032-24350-8_10
Conference paper
2026
NinjaDoH: A Censorship-Resistant Moving Target DoH Server Using Hyperscalers and IPNS Workshop on Measurements, Attacks, and Defenses for the Web (MADWeb, at NDSS)
— Seidenberger, S., Beret, M., Wijewickrama, R., Jadliwala, M., & Maiti, A. — doi 10.14722/madweb.2026.23006
Conference paper
2025
From Big Data to Valued Data: A Dataset Value Taxonomy for AI-Native Empirical Research 8th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES)
— Seidenberger, S., & Maiti, A. — doi 10.1609/aies.v8i3.36715
Conference paper
2025
Initial Evidence of Pervasive Reconnaissance Targeting Ethereum Node Infrastructure 7th ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (BSCI, at ACM ASIACCS)
— Seidenberger, S., & Maiti, A. — doi 10.1145/3709016.3737797
Conference paper
2025
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Prompts? Efficacy of Iterative Human-Driven Prompt Refinement in Image Regeneration Tasks International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
— Trinh, K., Seidenberger, S., Wijewickrama, R., Jadliwala, M., & Maiti, A. — doi 10.24963/ijcai.2025/1132
Conference paper
2025
MagnetDB: A Longitudinal Torrent Discovery Dataset with IMDb-Matched Movies and TV Shows 19th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
— Seidenberger, S., Pursell, N., & Maiti, A. — doi 10.1609/icwsm.v19i1.35959
Conference paper
2025
EtherBee: A Global Dataset of Ethereum Node Performance Measurements Coupled with Honeypot Interactions and Full Network Sessions 7th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC)
— Seidenberger, S., & Maiti, A. — doi 10.1109/ICBC64466.2025.11114523
Conference paper
2025
Why You've Got Mail: Evaluating Inbox Privacy Implications of Email Marketing Practices in Online Apps and Services 15th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY)
— Seidenberger, S., Ajisegiri, O., Pursell, N., Raja, F., & Maiti, A. — doi 10.1145/3714393.3726516
Conference paper
2021
Analysis of Patterns and Trends in COVID-19 Research Procedia Computer Science, 185, 302–310 (CASC 2021, Malvern, PA)
— Dornick, C., Kumar, A., Seidenberger, S., Seidle, E., & Mukherjee, P. — doi 10.1016/j.procs.2021.05.032
Journal article
2018
Can Government Agencies Compete with For-Profit Companies for Software Talent? Examining the Role of Employer Branding and Government Attitudes in Attracting Student Applicants Academy of Management Meetings, Chicago
— Seidenberger, S., & Collins, C. J. — doi 10.5465/AMBPP.2018.13596symposium
Conference paper

Public datasets released alongside the measurement work.

2025
Why You've Got Mail: Evaluating Inbox Privacy Implications of Email Marketing Practices in Online Apps and Services Academic Torrents
— Seidenberger, S., Ajisegiri, O., Pursell, N., Raja, F., & Maiti, A. — 1,100+ downloads.
Academic Torrents ↗
Dataset
2025
MagnetDB: A Longitudinal Torrent Discovery Dataset with IMDb-Matched Movies and TV Shows Academic Torrents
— Seidenberger, S., Pursell, N., & Maiti, A. — 300+ downloads.
Academic Torrents ↗
Dataset
2024
EtherBee: Ethereum Node Network Traffic, Telemetry, Honeypot Interactions, and Logs Open Science Framework (OSF)
— Seidenberger, S., & Maiti, A. — osf.io/c5upf
OSF ↗
Dataset

2026
CLPIPS: A Personalized Metric for AI-Generated Image Similarity Under review
— Trinh, K., Rothenberger, J., Seidenberger, S., Diochnos, D. I., & Maiti, A.
Under review
2026
The Refinement Gap: A Mixed-Effects Comparison of Human and Agentic Prompt Refinement in Image Regeneration Under review
— Trinh, K., Seidenberger, S., Wijewickrama, R., Jadliwala, M., & Maiti, A.
Under review
2026
Node Infrastructure First: Measuring Attacks, Modeling Cascades, and Rapid Recovery Tactics Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (DLT)
— Seidenberger, S., Trinh, K., & Maiti, A.
Under review
2023
Stake Your Claim: Zero-Trust Validator Deployment Leveraging NFTs and Smart Contracts in Proof-of-Stake Networks arXiv
— Seidenberger, S., Sokol, A., & Maiti, A. — arXiv 2308.01158
Pre-print

2022
Airborne Cooperative EW Integrated Reprogrammable Exchange (ACEWIRE) Classified
— Seidenberger, S. T. — Led to a $100k award for system testing; initial tests were successful, and the system remains under active development.
ACC article ↗
Military
2022
3-1 AWACS Classified
— First author of the chapter on electromagnetic warfare.
Military
2022
3-3 AWACS Controlled Unclassified
— Second author of the chapter on mission planning air operations.
Military
2018
Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake Air & Space Power Journal, 32(4), 103–105
— Seidenberger, S. T.
Read the review ↗
Book review
2018
Why Air Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat Air & Space Power Journal, 32(1), 125–127
— Seidenberger, S. T.
Read the review ↗
Book review
2018
Space Weather Effects on Satellite-Based Airborne Communications in USCENTCOM Classified
— Seidenberger, S. T.
Military
2016
A New Role for Human Resource Managers: Social Engineering Defense Cornell HR Review
— Seidenberger, S. — hdl.handle.net/1813/73018
Read the article ↗
Review article

$45,000 in funded research grants as Co-PI across three awards, plus competitive travel, sponsorship, and fellowship awards.

2024
[Co-PI] Ethereum Foundation Academic Grant (FY24-1546): CANARY Change Analysis and Network Anomaly Recognition sYstem
— Real-time surveillance and changepoint-based anomaly detection for Ethereum P2P security.
Grant announcement ↗
$24,000
2024
[Co-PI] Ethereum Foundation Academic Grant (FY24-1547): SEADRAGON Secure Ethereum Anonymity & Defense Relay via Advanced Global Overlay Networking
— Purpose-built VPN overlay to obscure node IPs and improve resilience against network-layer attacks.
Grant announcement ↗
$17,000
2024
[Co-PI] Storj, Inc. Grant: RADS Rapid Activation via Decentralized Snapshots
— Web3 decentralized storage pipeline for faster Ethereum snapshot delivery and node recovery.
$4,000

2025
OU College of Engineering Travel Award University of Oklahoma
2025
Ethereum Foundation Education Sponsorship Award Hacklahoma 2025
— Funded the inaugural Built on Ethereum Prize; delivered a web3 workshop and mentored on behalf of the Ethereum Foundation, helping 300+ students build dApps.
Built on Ethereum at Hacklahoma ↗
$4,000
2024
Ethereum DevCon Academic Fellowship Ethereum DevCon
— Competitively selected as an academic fellow for the largest Ethereum developer and community conference.
$3,000

Three graduate courses at the University of Oklahoma, plus U.S. Air Force instruction reaching 1,000+ officers and aviators as a course director and flight instructor.

Spring 2025
Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies Co-Instructor
CS 5833
Spring 2025
Cyber Attacks and Defenses Teaching Assistant
CS 5970
Summer 2024 & 2025
Financial Engineering Teaching Assistant
DSA 5303
2020–2022
Advanced Signals Intelligence Course Director / Lead Instructor
USAF
2019–2022
Instructor Air Battle Manager Instructor
USAF

Invited talks and panels across academic, industry, and defense venues, including TE Connectivity, Bloomberg and Cornell CAHRS, Hacklahoma, the Joint Requirements Council, and TEDx.

June 2026
GenAI & HR: AI Adoption, Work Redesign, and the Unit Economics of Enterprise AI TE Connectivity HR Leadership Team (HRLT), Virtual
Invited talk
April 2026
Charting the Future: GenAI & HR CAHRS In-Person Working Group, Colgate-Palmolive, New York, NY
Working group
October 2025
Charting the Future: GenAI & HR Bloomberg CAHRS Working Group, New York, NY
Working group
February 2025
Crafting Cutting-Edge Applications for a Decentralized Web Hacklahoma 2025, Norman, OK Event page ↗
Workshop
September 2022
Beyond Horizon Range Engagements Joint Requirements Council, St. Louis, MO
— Audience included the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Keynote
May 2015
Integrating a New Generation of Warriors TEDx, Ithaca, NY Watch the talk ↗
TEDx

Program committee member for AIES 2026; peer reviewer for eight venues, including NeurIPS, IEEE S&P, AISTATS, and WWW; departmental faculty-hiring committee service.

2026
AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES) Program committee member
Program committee
2017 – 2025
Reviewer for eight venues Conferences and journals
— AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), 2025. — Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024–2025. — IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland), 2025. — Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2025. — International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2025. — The ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2025. — Pervasive & Mobile Computing Journal (PMC), 2025. — Air & Space Power Journal (ASPJ), 2017–2019.
Peer review
2025
CS Faculty Hiring Committee University of Oklahoma
— Tenure-track search in cybersecurity.
Departmental
2023
Readiness Working Group, Helium Network migration to Solana Helium community
— Participated in the community readiness process; the public migration update records the group's decision to move migration timing to April 18, 2023.
Industry

2026
Noah Pursell (’26) Quantitative methods
— Mentored in quantitative methods, leading to co-authorship on two publications.
B.S. research
2025
Natalie Hill (’25) AI Politician: Fine-tuned Models for Political Discourse Project site ↗
M.S. capstone
2024
Marc Beret (’24) Evaluation of Moving-Target DoH Server Detection Using ML Models Thesis ↗
M.S. thesis
2024
Tristan Bony (’24) Impact of External Factors on Ethereum Network Stability Thesis ↗
M.S. thesis

Summer 2025
Ph.D. Research Fellow Nethermind, Washington, DC
— Led technical due diligence on a Bitcoin restaking platform for a country-level ETF issuer. — Created novel zero-knowledge proof schemes to reduce bandwidth on Ethereum's P2P layer.
Featured in the Nethermind Internship Program 2025 report (PDF) ↗
2023 – 2025
Co-founder & Managing Director Epoch Forge, Washington, DC
— Led a digital infrastructure provider specializing in web3 node operations. — Secured over $10M of customer funds via public blockchain validators. — Successfully exited after serving two enterprise customers.
epochforge.io ↗
2023
Defense Analyst Advanced Strategic Insight, Washington, DC
— Led research on human-machine teaming and produced a company white paper on autonomous-agent integration with air operations. — Led analysis for an SBIR Phase II proposal focused on USSF capability enhancement. — Authored technical briefs for DARPA, USAF Rapid Capabilities Office, and Space Systems Command.

Captain, United States Air Force. Instructor Air Battle Manager, Mission Commander, E-3 AWACS. Clearance: TS/SCI (2016–2024), inactive.

2016 – 2023
E-3B/C/G AWACS Air Battle Manager · Certified Mission Commander
— 800+ flight hours, including 300+ in combat.
Flight record
2021 – 2022
Joint Mission Commander, NIMBLE FIRE Joint Staff J8
Appointment
2021 – 2022
Lead E-3 Planner, NEPTUNE HAWK Pacific Air Forces
Appointment
2021
Electronic Warfare Coordinator Course 479 Operations Support Squadron, NAS Pensacola, FL
Assignment
2020 – 2023
Wing Chief Electromagnetic Warfare Officer 552 Operations Support Squadron, Tinker AFB, OK
Assignment
2020 – 2022
Principal Operations and Technical Advisor, AI Integration & Directed Energy Air Force Research Laboratory
— Covered in AFRL reporting on the directed energy / kinetic energy and high power electromagnetic wargaming events.
AFRL coverage ↗
Appointment
2020
Air Battle Manager Instructor Upgrade 966 Airborne Air Control Squadron, Tinker AFB, OK
Assignment
2019 – 2020
Chief of Squadron Innovation 964 Airborne Air Control Squadron, Tinker AFB, OK
Assignment
2019
Electronic Combat Officer Training 966 Airborne Air Control Squadron, Tinker AFB, OK
Assignment
2019
Liaison Officer to Joint Interagency Task Force South U.S. Southern Command
— Planned air support for counter-narcotics operations.
SOUTHCOM release ↗
Appointment
2018 – 2019
Air Weapons Officer 964 Airborne Air Control Squadron, Tinker AFB, OK
Assignment
2018
Student, Air Weapons Officer Training 966 Airborne Air Control Squadron, Tinker AFB, OK
Assignment
2017
Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) Fairchild AFB, WA
Assignment
2016 – 2017
Student, Undergraduate Air Battle Manager Training 337 Air Control Squadron, Tyndall AFB, FL
Assignment

2023
Wing Company Grade Officer of the Year United States Air Force
Award
2021
Group Electronic Combat Officer of the Year United States Air Force
Award
2021
Group Company Grade Officer of the Month (Deployed) United States Air Force
Award
2017
Top Graduate, Air Battle Manager Training United States Air Force
Award
2015
Distinguished Graduate, U.S. Air Force ROTC Field Training United States Air Force
Award
Air Medal with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster United States Air Force
— Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal with 1 Service Star. — Air and Space Commendation Medal. — Meritorious Unit Award with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster. — Combat Readiness Medal. — Air and Space Expeditionary Service Ribbon, Gold Border with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster. — Global War on Terrorism Service Medal. — National Defense Service Medal.
Decorations

Details and contact information available upon request.

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Anindya Maiti, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, University of Oklahoma
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Christopher Collins, Ph.D. Professor of Human Resource Studies, ILR School, Cornell University
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Colonel Keven Coyle Chief, USFK Commander's Initiatives Group