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 Bib PDF @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 Bib PDF @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 Bib PDF @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 Bib PDF @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 Bib PDF @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 Bib PDF @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 Bib PDF @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}, } 2020 Differentially Private Health Tokens for Estimating COVID-19 Risk David Butler, Chris Hicks, James Bell, and 2 more authors ArXiv, 2020 Bib PDF @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 = {ArXiv}, year = {2020}, volume = {abs/2006.14329}, doi = {10.14722/coronadef.2021.23006} } 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 Bib PDF @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 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2019 Bib PDF @article{hicksifal2019, title = {{IFAL: Issue First Activate Later Certificates for V2X}}, author = {Verheul, Eric and Hicks, Chris and Garcia D, Flavio}, year = {2019}, journal = {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 IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), 2018 Bib PDF @article{hicksaut642018, title = {{Dismantling the AUT64 Automotive Cipher}}, author = {Hicks, Chris and Garcia D, Flavio and Oswald, David}, year = {2018}, journal = {IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES)}, pages = {46-69}, doi = {10.13154/tches.v2018.i2.46-69}, } 2015 Gaining insight into virtualised host disk activity Chris Hicks M.Eng Electronic & Software Engineering Thesis, 2015 The University of Birmingham Bib PDF @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} }