Aron Laszka

Aron Laszka

Associate Professor
Pennsylvania State University

Aron Laszka is an Associate Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Houston, a Research Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University, and a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

His research interests revolve around artificial intelligence and cyber-physical systems, focusing on machine learning for decision making and optimization, with applications in smart and connected communities, critical infrastructure, and cybersecurity.

His research is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Department of Transportation, and other agencies.

Application-Aware Anomaly Detection of Sensor Measurements in Cyber-Physical Systems

Detection errors such as false alarms and undetected faults are inevitable in any practical anomaly detection system. These errors can create potentially significant problems in …

Amin Ghafouri
Sensors, 2018

Tool Demonstration: FSolidM for Designing Secure Ethereum Smart Contracts

Blockchain-based distributed computing platforms enable the trusted execution of computation—defined in the form of smart contracts—without trusted agents. Smart contracts are …

Anastasia Mavridou
POST 2018

Get Your Workload in Order: Game Theoretic Prioritization of Database Auditing

A wide variety of mechanisms, such as alert triggers and auditing routines, have been developed to notify administrators about types of suspicious activities in the daily use of …

Chao Yan
ICDE 2018

A Game-Theoretic Approach for Integrity Assurance in Resource-Bounded Systems

Assuring communication integrity is a central problem in security. However, overhead costs associated with cryptographic primitives used towards this end introduce significant …

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Aron Laszka
International Journal of Information Security, 2018

Scheduling Resource-Bounded Monitoring Devices for Event Detection and Isolation in Networks

In networked systems, monitoring devices such as sensors are typically deployed to monitor various target locations. Targets are the points in the physical space at which events of …

Waseem Abbas
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2018

The Rules of Engagement for Bug Bounty Programs

White hat hackers, also called ethical hackers, who find and report vulnerabilities to bug bounty programs have become a significant part of today’s security ecosystem. While the …

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Aron Laszka
FC 2018

Designing Secure Ethereum Smart Contracts: A Finite State Machine Based Approach

The adoption of blockchain-based distributed computation platforms is growing fast. Some of these platforms, such as Ethereum, provide support for implementing smart contracts, …

Anastasia Mavridou
FC 2018

An Economic Study of the Effect of Android Platform Fragmentation on Security Updates

Vendors in the Android ecosystem typically customize their devices by modifying Android Open Source Project (AOSP) code, adding in-house developed proprietary software, and …

Sadegh Farhang
FC 2018