@inproceedings{thompson2024entity,title={Entity-based reinforcement learning for autonomous cyber defence},author={Thompson, Isaac Symes and Caron, Alberto and Hicks, Chris and Mavroudis, Vasilios},booktitle={Proceedings of the Workshop on Autonomous Cybersecurity},pages={56--67},year={2024},}
Mitigating Deep Reinforcement Learning Backdoors in the Neural Activation Space
Sanyam Vyas, Chris Hicks, and Vasilios Mavroudis
In 2024 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW), 2024
@inproceedings{vyas2024mitigating,title={{Mitigating Deep Reinforcement Learning Backdoors in the Neural Activation Space}},author={Vyas, Sanyam and Hicks, Chris and Mavroudis, Vasilios},booktitle={2024 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW)},pages={76--86},year={2024},organization={IEEE},}
Online Convex Optimisation: The Optimal Switching Regret for all Segmentations Simultaneously
Stephen Pasteris, Chris Hicks, Vasilios Mavroudis, and
1 more author
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024
@article{pasteris2024online,title={{Online Convex Optimisation: The Optimal Switching Regret for all Segmentations Simultaneously}},author={Pasteris, Stephen and Hicks, Chris and Mavroudis, Vasilios and Herbster, Mark},journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},volume={37},pages={78278--78298},year={2024},}
WENDIGO: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Denial-of-Service Query Discovery in GraphQL
Shae McFadden, Marcello Maugeri, Chris Hicks, and
2 more authors
In 2024 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW), 2024
@inproceedings{mcfadden2024wendigo,title={{WENDIGO: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Denial-of-Service Query Discovery in GraphQL}},author={McFadden, Shae and Maugeri, Marcello and Hicks, Chris and Mavroudis, Vasilios and Pierazzi, Fabio},booktitle={2024 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW)},pages={68--75},year={2024},organization={IEEE},}
A view on out-of-distribution identification from a statistical testing theory perspective
Alberto Caron, Chris Hicks, and Vasilios Mavroudis
Trustworthy AI Workshop at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024
@article{caron2024view,title={A view on out-of-distribution identification from a statistical testing theory perspective},author={Caron, Alberto and Hicks, Chris and Mavroudis, Vasilios},journal={Trustworthy AI Workshop at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)},year={2024},note={arXiv:2405.03052},}
2023
Canaries and Whistles: Resilient Drone Communication Networks with (or without) Deep Reinforcement Learning
Chris Hicks, Vasilios Mavroudis, Myles Foley, and
3 more authors
In Proceedings of the 16th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security, 2023
@inproceedings{hicksCAGE3_23,author={Hicks, Chris and Mavroudis, Vasilios and Foley, Myles and Davies, Thomas and Highnam, Kate and Watson, Tim},title={{Canaries and Whistles: Resilient Drone Communication Networks with (or without) Deep Reinforcement Learning}},year={2023},isbn={9798400702600},publisher={Association for Computing Machinery},doi={10.1145/3605764.3623986},booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security},pages={91-101},numpages={11},series={AISec '23},}
Reward Shaping for Happier Autonomous Cyber Security Agents
Elizabeth Bates, Vasilios Mavroudis, and Chris Hicks
In Proceedings of the 16th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security, 2023
@inproceedings{batesCAGE2_23,author={Bates, Elizabeth and Mavroudis, Vasilios and Hicks, Chris},title={{Reward Shaping for Happier Autonomous Cyber Security Agents}},year={2023},isbn={9798400702600},publisher={Association for Computing Machinery},doi={10.1145/3605764.3623916},booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security},pages={221-232},numpages={12},series={AISec '23},}
Nearest Neighbour with Bandit Feedback
Stephen Pasteris, Chris Hicks, and Vasilios Mavroudis
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023
@inproceedings{pasterisConBan2023,author={Pasteris, Stephen and Hicks, Chris and Mavroudis, Vasilios},booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},publisher={Curran Associates, Inc.},title={{Nearest Neighbour with Bandit Feedback}},year={2023},series={NeurIPS 2023},}
2022
Inroads into Autonomous Network Defence using Explained Reinforcement Learning
Myles Foley, Mia Wang, Zoe M, and
2 more authors
In Conference on Applied Machine Learning in Information Security (CAMLIS), 2022
@inproceedings{foleyCAGEII22,title={{Inroads into Autonomous Network Defence using Explained Reinforcement Learning}},year={2022},author={Foley, Myles and Wang, Mia and M, Zoe and Hicks, Chris and Mavroudis, Vasilios},booktitle={Conference on Applied Machine Learning in Information Security (CAMLIS)},}
SIMple ID: QR Codes for Authentication Using Basic Mobile Phones in Developing Countries
Chris Hicks, Vasilios Mavroudis, and Jon Crowcroft
In Security and Trust Management (STM), 18th International Workshop, 2022
@inproceedings{hicksSIMpleID22,author={Hicks, Chris and Mavroudis, Vasilios and Crowcroft, Jon},editor={Lenzini, Gabriele and Meng, Weizhi},title={{SIMple ID: QR Codes for Authentication Using Basic Mobile Phones in Developing Countries}},booktitle={Security and Trust Management (STM), 18th International Workshop},year={2022},pages={3-23},}
Autonomous Network Defence Using Reinforcement Learning
Myles Foley, Chris Hicks, Kate Highnam, and
1 more author
In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2022
@inproceedings{foleyCAGEI22,author={Foley, Myles and Hicks, Chris and Highnam, Kate and Mavroudis, Vasilios},title={{Autonomous Network Defence Using Reinforcement Learning}},year={2022},publisher={Association for Computing Machinery},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3488932.3527286},booktitle={Proceedings of the 2022 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security},pages={1252-1254},series={ASIA CCS '22},doi={10.1145/3488932.3527286},}
2021
An Interface Between Legacy and Modern Mobile Devices for Digital Identity
Vasilios Mavroudis, Chris Hicks, and Jon Crowcroft
In Emerging Technologies for Authorization and Authentication (ETAA), 2021
@inproceedings{mavroudisGRID21,author={Mavroudis, Vasilios and Hicks, Chris and Crowcroft, Jon},editor={Saracino, Andrea and Mori, Paolo},title={{An Interface Between Legacy and Modern Mobile Devices for Digital Identity}},booktitle={Emerging Technologies for Authorization and Authentication (ETAA)},year={2021},publisher={Springer International Publishing},pages={68-76},isbn={978-3-030-93747-8},doi={10.1007/978-3-030-93747-8_5},}
Differentially Private Health Tokens for Estimating COVID-19 Risk
David Butler, Chris Hicks, James Bell, and
2 more authors
@article{Butler2020DifferentiallyPH,title={{Differentially Private Health Tokens for Estimating COVID-19 Risk}},author={Butler, David and Hicks, Chris and Bell, James and Maple, Carsten and Crowcroft, Jon A.},journal={CoronaDef Workshop 2021},year={2021},volume={abs/2006.14329},doi={10.14722/coronadef.2021.23006}}
2020
A Vehicular DAA Scheme for Unlinkable ECDSA Pseudonyms in V2X
Christopher Hicks, and Flavio D. Garcia
In 2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2020
@inproceedings{hicksVDAA20,author={Hicks, Christopher and Garcia, Flavio D.},booktitle={2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P)},title={{A Vehicular DAA Scheme for Unlinkable ECDSA Pseudonyms in V2X}},year={2020},pages={460-473},doi={10.1109/EuroSP48549.2020.00036},}
2019
IFAL: Issue First Activate Later Certificates for V2X
Eric Verheul, Chris Hicks, and Flavio Garcia D
In IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2019
@inproceedings{hicksifal2019,title={{IFAL: Issue First Activate Later Certificates for V2X}},author={Verheul, Eric and Hicks, Chris and Garcia D, Flavio},year={2019},booktitle={IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P)},pages={279-293},doi={10.1109/EuroSP.2019.00029},}
2018
Dismantling the AUT64 Automotive Cipher
Chris Hicks, Flavio Garcia D, and David Oswald
In IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES), 2018
@inproceedings{hicksaut642018,title={{Dismantling the AUT64 Automotive Cipher}},author={Hicks, Chris and Garcia D, Flavio and Oswald, David},year={2018},booktitle={IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES)},pages={46-69},doi={10.13154/tches.v2018.i2.46-69},}
2015
Gaining insight into virtualised host disk activity
@article{hicksthesis2015,title={{Gaining insight into virtualised host disk activity}},year={2015},author={Hicks, Chris},note={The University of Birmingham},journal={M.Eng Electronic & Software Engineering Thesis}}
