Aron Laszka is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston. Previously, he was a Research Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University, a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Visiting Scholar at Pennsylvania State University.
His research interests broadly revolve around the security and resilience of cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things, the economics of cyber-security, and game theory and artificial intelligence for security.
His research is funded in part by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, and Siemens.
Publications
Md Whaiduzzaman, Md Razon Hossain, Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Shanto Roy, Aron Laszka, Rajkumar Buyya, Alistair Barros
(2020).
A Privacy-preserving Mobile and Fog Computing Framework to Trace and Prevent COVID-19 Community Transmission.
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
Impact Factor: 5.22
Scott Eisele, Carlos Barreto, Abhishek Dubey, Xenofon Koutsoukos, Taha Eghtesad, Aron Laszka, Anastasia Mavridou
(2020).
Blockchains for Transactive Energy Systems: Opportunities, Challenges, and Approaches.
IEEE Computer.
Scott Eisele, Taha Eghtesad, Keegan Campanelli, Prakhar Agrawal, Aron Laszka, Abhishek Dubey
(2020).
Safe and Private Forward-Trading Platform for Transactive Microgrids.
ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems.
Taha Eghtesad, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Aron Laszka
(2020).
Adversarial Deep Reinforcement Learning based Adaptive Moving Target Defense.
GameSec 2020.
Afiya Ayman, Michael Wilbur, Amutheezan Sivagnanam, Philip Pugliese, Abhishek Dubey, Aron Laszka
(2020).
Data-Driven Prediction of Route-Level Energy Use for Mixed-Vehicle Transit Fleets.
SMARTCOMP 2020.
Go Yamamoto, Aron Laszka, Fuhito Kojima
(2020).
Equilibrium of Blockchain Miners with Dynamic Asset Allocation.
BRAINS 2020.
Waseem Abbas, Aron Laszka, Mudassir Shabbir, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2020).
Graph-Theoretic Approach for Increasing Participation in Networks with Assorted Resources.
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
Mudabbir Kaleem, Anastasia Mavridou, Aron Laszka
(2020).
Vyper: A Security Comparison with Solidity Based on Common Vulnerabilities.
BRAINS 2020.
Scott Eisele, Taha Eghtesad, Nicholas Troutman, Aron Laszka, Abhishek Dubey
(2020).
Mechanisms for Outsourcing Computation via a Decentralized Market.
DEBS 2020.
Carlos Barreto, Taha Eghtesad, Scott Eisele, Aron Laszka, Abhishek Dubey, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2020).
Cyber-Attacks and Mitigation in Blockchain Based Transactive Energy Systems.
ICPS 2020.
Keerthi Nelaturu, Anastasia Mavridou, Andreas Veneris, Aron Laszka
(2020).
Verified Development and Deployment of Multiple Interacting Smart Contracts with VeriSolid.
ICBC 2020.
Acceptance rate: 22%
Sadegh Farhang, Mehmet Bahadir Kirdan, Aron Laszka, Jens Grossklags
(2020).
An Empirical Study of Android Security Bulletins in Different Vendors.
WWW 2020.
Liang Tong, Aron Laszka, Chao Yan, Ning Zhang, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
(2020).
Finding Needles in a Moving Haystack: Prioritizing Alerts with Adversarial Reinforcement Learning.
AAAI 2020.
Acceptance rate: 20.6%
Afiya Ayman, Shanto Roy, Amin Alipour, Aron Laszka
(2020).
Smart Contract Development from the Perspective of Developers: Topics and Issues Discussed on Social Media.
WTSC 2020.
Aron Laszka, Waseem Abbas, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2020).
Integrating Redundancy, Diversity, and Hardening to Improve Security of Industrial Internet of Things.
Cyber-Physical Systems.
Aron Laszka, Waseem Abbas, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2019).
Detection and Mitigation of Attacks on Transportation Networks as a Multi-Stage Security Game.
Computers & Security.
Impact Factor: 3.06 (2018)
Sakshyam Panda, Daniel W. Woods, Aron Laszka, Andrew Fielder, Emmanouil Panaousis
(2019).
Post-Incident Audits on Cyber Insurance Discounts.
Computers & Security.
Impact Factor: 3.06 (2018)
Sanchita Basak, Afiya Ayman, Aron Laszka, Abhishek Dubey, Bruno Leao
(2019).
Data-Driven Detection of Anomalies and Cascading Failures in Traffic Networks.
PHM 2019.
Amin Ghafouri, Aron Laszka, Waseem Abbas, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2019).
A Game-Theoretic Approach for Selecting Optimal Time-Dependent Thresholds for Anomaly Detection.
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.
Waseem Abbas, Aron Laszka, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2019).
Diversity and Trust to Increase Structural Robustness in Networks.
ACC 2019.
Chao Yan, Bo Li, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Aron Laszka, Daniel Fabbri, Bradley Malin
(2019).
Database Audit Workload Prioritization via Game Theory.
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security.
Shreyas Ramakrishna, Abhishek Dubey, Matthew P. Burruss, Charles Hartsell, Nagabhushan Mahadevan, Saideep Nannapaneni, Aron Laszka, Gabor Karsai
(2019).
Augmenting Learning Components for Safety in Resource Constrained Autonomous Robots.
ISORC 2019.
Yue Zhang, Scott Eisele, Abhishek Dubey, Aron Laszka, Anurag Srivastava
(2019).
Cyber-Physical Simulation Platform for Security Assessment of the Transactive Energy Systems.
MSCPES 2019.
Anastasia Mavridou, Aron Laszka, Emmanouela Stachtiari, Abhishek Dubey
(2019).
VeriSolid: Correct-by-Design Smart Contracts for Ethereum.
FC 2019.
Acceptance rate: 22%
Aron Laszka, Xenofon Koutsoukos, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
(2019).
Towards High-Resolution Multi-Stage Security Games.
Proactive and Dynamic Network Defense.
Waseem Abbas, Aron Laszka, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2018).
Improving Network Connectivity and Robustness Using Trusted Nodes with Application to Resilient Consensus.
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.
Aron Laszka, Scott Eisele, Abhishek Dubey, Gabor Karsai, Karla Kvaternik
(2018).
TRANSAX: A Blockchain-based Decentralized Forward-Trading Energy Exchange for Transactive Microgrids.
ICPADS 2018.
Aron Laszka, Benjamin Johnson, Jens Grossklags
(2018).
On the Assessment of Systematic Risk in Networked Systems.
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology.
Aron Laszka, Emmanouil Panaousis, Jens Grossklags
(2018).
Cyber-Insurance as a Signaling Game: Self-Reporting and External Security Audits.
GameSec 2018.
Aron Laszka, Waseem Abbas, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2018).
Synergistic Security for the Industrial Internet of Things: Integrating Redundancy, Diversity, and Hardening.
ICII 2018.
Amin Ghafouri, Aron Laszka, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2018).
Application-Aware Anomaly Detection of Sensor Measurements in Cyber-Physical Systems.
Sensors.
5-Year Impact Factor: 3.014 (2017)
Benjamin Johnson, Aron Laszka, Jens Grossklags, Tyler Moore
(2018).
Economic Analyses of Security Investments on Cryptocurrency Exchanges.
IEEE Blockchain 2018.
Acceptance rate: 15.3%
Scott Eisele, Aron Laszka, Anastasia Mavridou, Abhishek Dubey
(2018).
SolidWorx: A Resilient and Trustworthy Transactive Platform for Smart and Connected Communities.
IEEE Blockchain 2018.
Acceptance rate: 15.3%
Aron Laszka, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2018).
A Game-Theoretic Approach for Integrity Assurance in Resource-Bounded Systems.
International Journal of Information Security.
Chao Yan, Bo Li, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Aron Laszka, Daniel Fabbri, Bradley Malin
(2018).
Get Your Workload in Order: Game Theoretic Prioritization of Database Auditing.
ICDE 2018.
Anastasia Mavridou, Aron Laszka
(2018).
Tool Demonstration: FSolidM for Designing Secure Ethereum Smart Contracts.
POST 2018.
Waseem Abbas, Aron Laszka, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2018).
Scheduling Resource-Bounded Monitoring Devices for Event Detection and Isolation in Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
Sadegh Farhang, Aron Laszka, Jens Grossklags
(2018).
An Economic Study of the Effect of Android Platform Fragmentation on Security Updates.
FC 2018.
Acceptance rate: 26%
Anastasia Mavridou, Aron Laszka
(2018).
Designing Secure Ethereum Smart Contracts: A Finite State Machine Based Approach.
FC 2018.
Acceptance rate: 26%
Aron Laszka, Mingyi Zhao, Akash Malbari, Jens Grossklags
(2018).
The Rules of Engagement for Bug Bounty Programs.
FC 2018.
Acceptance rate: 26%
Xenofon Koutsoukos, Gabor Karsai, Aron Laszka, Himanshu Neema, Bradley Potteiger, Peter Volgyesi, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Janos Sztipanovits
(2018).
SURE: A Modeling and Simulation Integration Platform for Evaluation of SecUre and REsilient Cyber-Physical Systems.
Proceedings of the IEEE.
Impact Factor: 9.11 (2016)
Jonatan Bergquist, Aron Laszka, Monika Sturm, Abhishek Dubey
(2017).
On the Design of Communication and Transaction Anonymity in Blockchain-Based Transactive Microgrids.
SERIAL 2017.
Michael Walker, Abhishek Dubey, Aron Laszka, Douglas Schmidt
(2017).
PlaTIBART: A Platform for Transactive IoT Blockchain Applications with Repeatable Testing.
M4IoT 2017.
Aron Laszka, Sadegh Farhang, Jens Grossklags
(2017).
On the Economics of Ransomware.
GameSec 2017.
Aron Laszka, Abhishek Dubey, Michael Walker, Douglas Schmidt
(2017).
Providing Privacy, Safety, and Security in IoT-Based Transactive Energy Systems using Distributed Ledgers.
IoT 2017.
Nika Haghtalab, Aron Laszka, Ariel Procaccia, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2017).
Monitoring Stealthy Diffusions.
Knowledge and Information Systems.
Impact Factor: 2.25 (2017)
Waseem Abbas, Aron Laszka, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2017).
Improving Network Connectivity Using Trusted Nodes and Edges.
ACC 2017.
Waseem Abbas, Aron Laszka, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2017).
Graph-Theoretic Approach for Increasing Participation in Social Sensing.
SocialSens 2017.
Amin Ghafouri, Aron Laszka, Abhishek Dubey, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2017).
Optimal Detection of Faulty Traffic Sensors Used in Route Planning.
SCOPE 2017.
Aron Laszka, Waseem Abbas, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2017).
Scheduling Battery-Powered Sensor Networks for Minimizing Detection Delays.
IEEE Communications Letters.
Impact Factor: 2.72
Aron Laszka, Waseem Abbas, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2017).
Synergic Security for Smart Water Networks: Redundancy, Diversity, and Hardening.
CySWater 2017.
Aron Laszka, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Daniel Fabbri, Chao Yan, Bradley Malin
(2017).
A Game-Theoretic Approach for Alert Prioritization.
AICS 2017.
Mingyi Zhao, Aron Laszka, Jens Grossklags
(2017).
Devising Effective Policies for Bug-Bounty Platforms and Security Vulnerability Discovery.
Journal of Information Policy.
Aron Laszka, Galina Schwartz
(2016).
Becoming Cybercriminals: Incentives in Networks with Interdependent Security.
GameSec 2016.
Amin Ghafouri, Waseem Abbas, Aron Laszka, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2016).
Optimal Thresholds for Anomaly-Based Intrusion Detection in Dynamical Environments.
GameSec 2016.
Aron Laszka, Mingyi Zhao, Jens Grossklags
(2016).
Banishing Misaligned Incentives for Validating Reports in Bug-Bounty Platforms.
ESORICS 2016.
Acceptance rate: 21%
Aron Laszka, Waseem Abbas, S. Shankar Sastry, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2016).
Optimal Thresholds for Intrusion Detection Systems.
HotSoS 2016.
Waseem Abbas, Aron Laszka, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2016).
Resilient Wireless Sensor Networks for Cyber-Physical Systems.
Cyber-Physical System Design with Sensor Networking Technologies.
Aron Laszka, Bradley Potteiger, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Saurabh Amin, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2016).
Vulnerability of Transportation Networks to Traffic-Signal Tampering.
ICCPS 2016.
Aron Laszka, Jian Lou, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
(2016).
Multi-Defender Strategic Filtering Against Spear-Phishing Attacks.
AAAI 2016.
Aron Laszka, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2015).
Resilient Observation Selection in Adversarial Settings.
CDC 2015.
Benjamin Johnson, Aron Laszka, Jens Grossklags
(2015).
Games of Timing for Security in Dynamic Environments.
GameSec 2015.
Nika Haghtalab, Aron Laszka, Ariel Procaccia, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2015).
Monitoring Stealthy Diffusion.
ICDM 2015.
Acceptance rate: 18.2%
Waseem Abbas, Aron Laszka, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2015).
Scheduling Intrusion Detection Systems in Resource-Bounded Cyber-Physical Systems.
CPS-SPC 2015.
Aron Laszka, Jens Grossklags
(2015).
Should Cyber-Insurance Providers Invest in Software Security?.
ESORICS 2015.
Acceptance rate: less than 20%
Emmanouil Panaousis, Aron Laszka, Johannes Pohl, Andreas Noack, Tansu Alpcan
(2015).
Game-Theoretic Model of Incentivizing Privacy-Aware Users to Consent to Location Tracking.
RATSP 2015.
George Rontidis, Emmanouil Panaousis, Aron Laszka, Tasos Dagiuklas, Pasquale Malacaria, Tansu Alpcan
(2015).
A Game-Theoretic Approach for Minimizing Security Risks in the Internet-of-Things.
IoT/CPS-Security 2015.
Benjamin Johnson, Pascal Schöttle, Aron Laszka, Jens Grossklags, Rainer Böhme
(2015).
Adaptive Steganography and Steganalysis with Fixed-Size Embedding.
Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security.
Aron Laszka, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2015).
Integrity Assurance in Resource-Bounded Systems through Stochastic Message Authentication.
HotSoS 2015.
Aron Laszka, Assane Gueye
(2015).
Network Topology Vulnerability/Cost Tradeoff: Model, Application, and Computational Complexity.
Internet Mathematics.
Aron Laszka, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Xenofon Koutsoukos
(2015).
Optimal Personalized Filtering Against Spear-Phishing Attacks.
AAAI 2015.
Aron Laszka, Benjamin Johnson, Jens Grossklags
(2015).
When Bitcoin Mining Pools Run Dry: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Long-Term Impact of Attacks Between Mining Pools.
BITCOIN 2015.
Aron Laszka, Gabor Horvath, Mark Felegyhazi, Levente Buttyán
(2014).
FlipThem: Modeling Targeted Attacks with FlipIt for Multiple Resources.
GameSec 2014.
Aron Laszka, Benjamin Johnson, Pascal Schöttle, Jens Grossklags, Rainer Böhme
(2014).
Secure Team Composition to Thwart Insider Threats and Cyberespionage.
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology.
Aron Laszka, Mark Felegyhazi, Levente Buttyán
(2014).
A Survey of Interdependent Information Security Games.
ACM Computing Surveys.
Impact Factor: 6.75
Benjamin Johnson, Aron Laszka, Jens Grossklags
(2014).
The Complexity of Estimating Systematic Risk in Networks.
CSF 2014.
Benjamin Johnson, Aron Laszka, Jens Grossklags
(2014).
How Many Down? Toward Understanding Systematic Risk in Networks.
ASIACCS 2014.
Acceptance rate: 20%
Aron Laszka, Benjamin Johnson, Jens Grossklags, Mark Felegyhazi
(2014).
Estimating Systematic Risk in Real-World Networks.
FC 2014.
Acceptance rate: 22.5%
Benjamin Johnson, Aron Laszka, Jens Grossklags, Marie Vasek, Tyler Moore
(2014).
Game-Theoretic Analysis of DDoS Attacks Against Bitcoin Mining Pools.
BITCOIN 2014.
Aron Laszka, Benjamin Johnson, Jens Grossklags
(2013).
Mitigating Covert Compromises: A Game-Theoretic Model of Targeted and Non-Targeted Covert Attacks.
WINE 2013.
Acceptance rate: 24%
Aron Laszka, Adam Foldes
(2013).
Modeling Content-Adaptive Steganography with Detection Costs as a Quasi-Zero-Sum Game.
Infocommunications Journal.
Aron Laszka, Benjamin Johnson, Jens Grossklags
(2013).
Mitigation of Targeted and Non-Targeted Covert Attacks as a Timing Game.
GameSec 2013.
Aron Laszka, Assane Gueye
(2013).
Quantifying Network Topology Robustness Under Budget Constraints: General Model and Computational Complexity.
GameSec 2013.
Benjamin Johnson, Pascal Schöttle, Aron Laszka, Jens Grossklags, Rainer Böhme
(2013).
Bitspotting: Detecting Optimal Adaptive Steganography.
IWDW 2013.
Pascal Schöttle, Aron Laszka, Benjamin Johnson, Jens Grossklags, Rainer Böhme
(2013).
A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Content-Adaptive Steganography with Independent Embedding.
EUSIPCO 2013.
Aron Laszka, Benjamin Johnson, Pascal Schöttle, Jens Grossklags, Rainer Böhme
(2013).
Managing the Weakest Link: A Game-Theoretic Approach for the Mitigation of Insider Threats.
ESORICS 2013.
Acceptance rate: 17.8%
Aron Laszka, Levente Buttyán, Dávid Szeszlér
(2013).
Designing Robust Network Topologies for Wireless Sensor Networks in Adversarial Environments.
Pervasive and Mobile Computing.
Impact Factor: 2.35
Aron Laszka, Assane Gueye
(2013).
Quantifying All-to-One Network Topology Robustness Under Budget Constraints.
W-PIN+NetEcon 2013 2013.
Aron Laszka, Dávid Szeszlér, Levente Buttyán
(2012).
Linear Loss Function for the Network Blocking Game: An Efficient Model for Measuring Network Robustness and Link Criticality.
GameSec 2012.
Aron Laszka, Dávid Szeszlér, Levente Buttyán
(2012).
Game-theoretic Robustness of Many-to-one Networks.
GameNets 2012.
Aron Laszka, Levente Buttyán, Dávid Szeszlér
(2011).
Optimal Selection of Sink Nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks in Adversarial Environments.
D-SPAN 2011.