Ben Kaiser

Computer security and disinformation researcher

bkaiser@princeton.edu:/bio$

I’m a 3rd-year PhD candidate in Computer Science at Princeton University advised by Jonathan Mayer in the Center for Information Technology Policy.

My background is in security and privacy, and my current work is on measuring and responding to online disinformation.

I love to teach and mentor. I’ve taught computing and security basics to students of all ages through CodeCreative, LLCipher, and RPISEC, among other groups. At Princeton, I TA’d COS 448 and COS 217.

In my spare time, I like to read science fiction, play tennis, and make craft cocktails.

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PhD in Computer Science, in progress

Princeton University
MS in Computer Science, 2015

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
BS in Computer Science, 2015

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Peer-Reviewed Papers

Ben Kaiser, Jerry Wei, Eli Lucherini, Kevin Lee, J. Nathan Matias, Jonathan Mayer (2020). Adapting Security Warnings to Counter Online Disinformation. In USENIX SEC 2021.

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Austin Hounsel, Jordan Holland, Ben Kaiser, Kevin Borgolte, Nick Feamster, Jonathan Mayer (2020). Identifying Disinformation Websites Using Infrastructure Features. In USENIX FOCI 2020.

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Kevin Lee, Ben Kaiser, Jonathan Mayer, Arvind Narayanan (2020). An Empirical Study of Wireless Carrier Authentication for SIM Swaps. In USENIX SOUPS 2020.

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Scott Ruoti, Ben Kaiser, Arkady Yerukhimovich, Jeremy Clark, Robert Cunningham (2019). Blockchain Technology: What Is It Good For?. In ACM QUEUE 17 (5).

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Jeremy Blackthorne, Ben Kaiser, Benjamin Fuller, Bülent Yener (2017). Environmental Authentication in Malware. In LATINCRYPT 2017.

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Jeremy Blackthorne, Ben Kaiser, Bülent Yener (2016). A Formal Framework for Environmentally Sensitive Malware. In RAID 2016.

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Vijay Gadepally, Braden Hancock, Ben Kaiser, Jeremy Kepner, Pete Michaleas, Mayank Varia, Arkady Yerukhimovich (2015). Computing on Masked Data to improve the security of big data. In IEEE HST 2015.

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Talks and Other Published Work

Warnings That Work: Combating Misinformation Without Deplatforming

Published July 23, 2021 on Lawfare.

Ben Kaiser, Jonathan Mayer, J. Nathan Matias

Article Podcast

The Looming Threat of China: An Analysis of Chinese Influence on Bitcoin

Published October 5, 2018 on arXiv. Presented at CESC 2018.

Ben Kaiser, Mireya Jurado, G. Alex Ledger

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