• About Me
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• Coursework

About Me

My hometown is Springfield, Illinois. I atteded Southern Illinois University at Carbondale for my undergraduate education. I joined the PhD program at Purdue University in the Fall of 2009 with Dr. Cristina Nita-Rotaru as my advisor.

Research

In the past, I investigated non-security issues of distributed algorithms for improved coverage performance in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) and UnderWater Sensor Networks (UWSNs). My current interests in research revolve around security and distribution systems. Currently, I am involved in projects on secure network coding, adversarial machine learning, provable timestamps with bitcoin, new optimization language/compiler, resilient cloud networks, and optimally diversifying network components.

Publications

Journal Articles

• A. Newell, J. Dong, and C. Nita-Rotaru, "On the Practicality of Cryptographic Defenses against Pollution Attacks in Wireless Network Coding", to appear in ACM Computer Surveys.

• A. Newell and K. Akkaya, "Distributed Collaborative Camera Actuation for Redundant Data Elimination in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks", in Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 9, no. 4, 2011, pp. 514-527.

• K. Akkaya and A. Newell, "Self-Deployment of Sensors for Maximized Coverage in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks", in Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, vol. 32, no. 7, 2009, pp. 1233-1244.

Conference Papers

• A. Newell, D. Obenshain, T. Tantillo, C. Nita-Rotuaru, and Y. Amir. Increasing Network Resiliency by Optimally Assigning Diverse Variants to Routing Nodes, in the Proceedings of The 43rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2013. [Technical Report] [Video of Talk] [Slides]

• A. Newell and C. Nita-Rotaru, "Split Null Keys: A Null Space Based Defense for Pollution Attacks in Wireless Network Coding", in the Proceedings of the IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), June 2012.

• A. Newell, R. Curtmola, and C. Nita-Rotaru, "Entropy Attacks and Countermeasures in Wireless Network Coding", in the Proceedings of the Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), April 2012.

• R. Potharaju, A. Newell, C. Nita-Rotaru, and X. Zhang, "Plagiarizing Smartphone Applications: Attack Strategies and Defense Techniques", in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS), February 2012.

• A. Newell and K. Akkaya, "Providing Multi-Perspective Event Coverage in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks", in the Proceedings of Local Computer Networks (LCN), October 2010.

• A. Newell and K. Akkaya, "Self-Actuation of Camera Sensors for Redundant Data Elimination in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks", in the Proceedings of International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2009.

Coursework

The following are graduate courses I have completed at Purdue.

• CS 502 Compilers
• CS 503 Operating Systems
• CS 505 Distributed Systems
• CS 536 Data Communication and Computer Networks
• CS 541 Databases
• CS 543 Simulation and Modeling
• CS 555 Cryptography
• CS 571 Data Mining
• CS 580 Algorithms
• CS 626 Advanced Information Assurance