Research
My research examines digital systems at three interconnected levels: their underlying protocol infrastructure, their interactions with people and organizations, and their behavior as large-scale digital ecosystems. Across these areas, I combine empirical measurement, data-intensive analysis, experimentation, and system design to understand how digital technologies behave and how they can become more secure, trustworthy, and socially beneficial.
Together, these three categories define a research program concerned with the trustworthiness of digital technology across systems, people, and society: securing the infrastructure on which digital activity depends, understanding how intelligent systems affect human agency and work, and building the empirical evidence needed to evaluate digital ecosystems.
[1] 2026 What Should I Become? When LLMs Present a Slice of Opportunity as the Whole Paper
Examines how language models narrow the set of career options they present, and what that narrowing does to the people relying on them for guidance.
[2] 2026 Front-Running the Red Carpet: A Measurement Study of Media Torrent Leaks and User Risks Paper
Measures how streaming fragmentation relates to earlier leaks, larger torrent swarms, and increased risk to the users who join them.
[3] 2026 Online Word-of-Mouth in Recruitment: A Glassdoor Field Study Preprint
Studies how online word-of-mouth on Glassdoor shapes organizational image and applicant behavior in recruitment contexts.
[4] 2026 Node Infrastructure First: Measuring Attacks, Modeling Cascades, and Rapid Recovery Tactics Preprint
Measures attacks on node infrastructure, models how failures cascade through the network, and evaluates tactics for rapid recovery.
[5] 2026 The Refinement Gap: A Mixed-Effects Comparison of Human and Agentic Prompt Refinement in Image Regeneration Preprint
Compares human and agentic prompt refinement on the same image-regeneration task, and locates where the two diverge.
[6] 2026 CLPIPS: A Personalized Metric for AI-Generated Image Similarity Preprint
A perceptual similarity metric tuned against human judgments, so similarity scoring is usable as feedback inside iterative generation workflows.
[7] 2026 One Answer to Rule Them All? Risks to Job Seekers in Relying on LLMs for Employer Insights Preprint
Examines how AI-generated employer summaries shape employer image, candidate confidence, and the decision to apply.
[8] 2026 Prompt and Circumstances: Evaluating the Efficacy of Human Prompt Inference in AI-Generated Art Paper
Evaluates human ability to infer the prompts used to generate AI art. Findings show that prompt inference is difficult and that contextual factors significantly affect performance.
[9] 2026 NinjaDoH: A Censorship-Resistant Moving Target DoH Server Using Hyperscalers and IPNS Paper
Presents NinjaDoH, a moving-target DNS-over-HTTPS architecture that combines hyperscaler deployment with IPNS-based endpoint agility to improve censorship resistance and availability.
[10] 2025 From Big Data to Valued Data: A Dataset Value Taxonomy for AI-Native Empirical Research Paper
Proposes a taxonomy for evaluating dataset value in AI-native empirical research. Moves beyond volume-centric data paradigms to consider dimensions of quality, representativeness, and ethical sourcing.
[11] 2025 A Picture is Worth a Thousand Prompts? Efficacy of Iterative Human-Driven Prompt Refinement in Image Regeneration Tasks Paper
Evaluates the efficacy of iterative human-driven prompt refinement in AI image regeneration tasks. Findings reveal both the potential and limits of human ability to reverse-engineer prompts from generated images.
[12] 2025 Initial Evidence of Pervasive Reconnaissance Targeting Ethereum Node Infrastructure Paper
Documents continuous, automated scanning and fingerprinting of Ethereum nodes, with geographic and temporal structure in the reconnaissance activity.
[13] 2025 MagnetDB: A Longitudinal Torrent Discovery Dataset with IMDb-Matched Movies and TV Shows Paper
A fifteen-year torrent-discovery dataset of 4,936,257 magnet links matched to IMDb metadata, with daily snapshots of more than 130,000 unique torrents.
[14] 2025 EtherBee: A Global Dataset of Ethereum Node Performance Measurements Coupled with Honeypot Interactions and Full Network Sessions Paper
Couples global node performance measurement with honeypot interactions and full network sessions, so blockchain infrastructure security can be studied reproducibly.
[15] 2025 Why You've Got Mail: Evaluating Inbox Privacy Implications of Email Marketing Practices in Online Apps and Services Paper
Audits the privacy and data-sharing practices behind email marketing at large companies, and what those third-party flows mean for the people receiving the mail.
[16] 2025 Why You've Got Mail: Inbox Privacy Measurement Dataset Dataset
The measurement dataset behind the CODASPY study of email marketing and inbox privacy.
[17] 2025 MagnetDB: Longitudinal Torrent Discovery Dataset Dataset
Public release of the torrent-discovery dataset with IMDb-matched movies and TV shows.
[18] 2024 CANARY: Change Analysis and Network Anomaly Recognition sYstem Grant
Realtime surveillance and changepoint-based anomaly detection for Ethereum P2P security.
[19] 2024 SEADRAGON: Secure Ethereum Anonymity & Defense Relay via Advanced Global Overlay Networking Grant
Purpose-built VPN overlay to obscure node IPs and improve resilience against network-layer attacks.
[20] 2024 RADS: Rapid Activation via Decentralized Snapshots Grant
Decentralized storage pipeline for faster Ethereum snapshot delivery and recovery.
[21] 2024 EtherBee: Ethereum Node Network Traffic, Telemetry, Honeypot Interactions, and Logs Dataset
Node telemetry, full network sessions, honeypot interactions, and logs from the EtherBee measurement infrastructure.
[22] 2023 Stake Your Claim: Zero-Trust Validator Deployment Leveraging NFTs and Smart Contracts in Proof-of-Stake Networks Preprint
Proposes NFT-anchored, trust-minimized validator identity and onboarding for proof-of-stake networks.
[23] 2021 Analysis of Patterns and Trends in COVID-19 Research Paper
Applies NLP and bibliometric analysis to the pandemic literature, mapping research clusters, collaboration networks, and how topics moved over time.
[24] 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 Paper
Tests whether employer branding and attitudes toward government predict which students apply to public-sector technical roles.
[25] 2018 Why Air Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat Review
Book review for Air & Space Power Journal.
[26] 2018 Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake Review
Book review for Air & Space Power Journal.
[27] 2016 A New Role for Human Resource Managers - Social Engineering Defense Seidenberger, S. Review
HR managers have a critical but underrecognized role in defending organizations against social engineering. This article argues that HR's people-facing position makes them essential for awareness, training, and policy.