Nate Mathews
Research Scientist at Rochester Institute of Technology
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolNate Mathews is a research scientist and PhD candidate at Rochester Institute of Technology with nine years of experience applying machine learning to cybersecurity, privacy, and network traffic analysis. He has pioneered deep-learning and transformer-based approaches for website fingerprinting and flow correlation attacks, producing papers at ACM CCS and IEEE S&P and helping secure over $1M in related grants. Nate bridges offensive and defensive research, developing models that both expose and mitigate privacy vulnerabilities in anonymity networks and achieving substantial reductions in flow-correlation error through deep metric learning. He also teaches advanced cybersecurity and ML courses, created a novel LLMs-in-cybersecurity class, and mentors students in experimental design and publication. Based in Rochester, NY, he is active on GitHub and maintains a personal project site that documents his publications and tooling. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher who moves rapidly from theoretical insight to reproducible code and real-world evaluation.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing and Information Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing and Information Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (16)
mongodb10
discord-bot10
discord10
information-theory9
fingerprinting8
classification-model7
python6
network-traffic4
privacy-enhancing-technologies4
deep-learning3
privacy3
machine-learning3
generative-ai2
generative2
pytorch1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
notem/reWeFDE
Apr 2019 - Feb 2020
Reimplementation of the WeFDE information leakage analysis technique for website fingerprinting analysis in Python3.
Contributions:37 commits, 1 push in 10 months
fingerprintingpythonpython3website-fingerprintinginformation-leakage
notem/Saber-Bot
Nov 2016 - Sep 2022
A discord bot to manage schedules & calendars with discord notifications.
Contributions:699 commits, 550 pushes, 14 branches in 5 years 10 months
discorddiscord-botjdaschedulebot
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