Alan Mislove

Network measurement
Networking
Online social networks
Security and privacy

PhD in Computer Science, Rice University
MS in Computer Science, Rice University
BA in Computer Science, Rice University

Alan Mislove is a professor and the senior associate dean for academic affairs in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.

Mislove's primary interest is distributed systems and networks, with a focus on using social networks to enhance the security, privacy, and efficiency of emerging systems. He is a core faculty member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, which forages partnerships with experts in industry, government, and academia worldwide. In 2023 and 2024, he served as deputy US chief technology officer for privacy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Mislove won the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize for his work on understanding the role of registrars in DNSSEC deployment. His work has been funded by Amazon Web Services, the Army Research Office, the Data Transparency Lab, Facebook, Google, and the NSF. He was a recipient of the NSF Career Award in 2011, and his work has been covered by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and CBS Evening News.

Algorithm Auditing Research Group

Published: November 7th, 2022
Hammurabi: A Framework for Pluggable, Logic-based X.509 Certificate Validation Policies

Citation: James Larisch, Waqar Aqeel, Michael Lum, Yaelle Goldschlag, Kasra Torshizi, Leah Kannan, Yujie Wang, Taejoong Chung, Dave Levin, Bruce M. Maggs, Alan Mislove, Bryan Parno, and Christo Wilson. (2022). "Hammurabi: A Framework for Pluggable, Logic-Based X.509 Certificate Validation Policies". In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’22), November 7–11, 2022, Los Angeles, CA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3548606.3560594
Published: October 25th, 2022
Measurement and analysis of implied identity in ad delivery optimization

Citation: Levi Kaplan, Nicole Gerzon, Alan Mislove, Piotr Sapiezynski. (2022). Measurement and analysis of implied identity in ad delivery optimization IMC, 195-209. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517745.3561450
Published: November 2nd, 2021
Selfish & opaque transaction ordering in the Bitcoin blockchain: the case for chain neutrality

Citation: Johnnatan Messias, Mohamed Alzayat, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran , Krishna P. Gummadi, Patrick Loiseau, Alan Mislove. (2021). Selfish & opaque transaction ordering in the Bitcoin blockchain: the case for chain neutrality Internet Measurement Conference, 320-335. https://doi.org/10.1145/3487552.3487823
Published: August 9th, 2021
The ties that un-bind: decoupling IP from web services and sockets for robust addressing agility at CDN-scale

Citation: Marwan Fayed, Lorenz Bauer, Vasileios Giotsas, Sami Kerola, Marek Majkowski, Pavel Odintsov, Jakub Sitnicki, Taejoong Chung, Dave Levin, Alan Mislove, Christopher A. Wood, Nick Sullivan. (2021). The ties that un-bind: decoupling IP from web services and sockets for robust addressing agility at CDN-scale SIGCOMM, 433-446. https://doi.org/10.1145/3452296.3472922
Published: August 2nd, 2021
A Large-Scale Analysis of Deployed Traffic Differentiation Practices

Citation: Fangfan Li, Arian Akhavan Niaki, David Choffnes, Phillipa Gill, and Alan Mislove. 2019. A large-scale analysis of deployed traffic differentiation practices. In Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 130–144. DOI: 10.1145/3341302.3342092
Published: March 1st, 2021
Building and Auditing Fair Algorithms: A Case Study in Candidate Screening

Citation: Christo Wilson, Avijit Ghosh, Shan Jiang, Alan Mislove, Lewis Baker, Janelle Szary, Kelly Trindel, and Frida Polli. "Building and Auditing Fair Algorithms: A Case Study in Candidate Screening." In Proceedings of the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2021). Virtual Event, Canada, March, 2021. DOI: 10.1145/3442188.3445928
Published: November 2nd, 2018
Is the Web Ready for OCSP Must-Staple?

Citation: Taejoong Chung, Jay Lok, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, David Choffnes, Dave Levin, Bruce M. Maggs, Alan Mislove, John Rula, Nick Sullivan, and Christo Wilson. 2018. Is the Web Ready for OCSP Must-Staple?. In 2018 Internet Measurement Conference (IMC ’18), October 31-November 2, 2018, Boston, MA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages. https://doi.org/ 10.1145/3278532.3278543
Published: May 24th, 2018
Privacy Risks with Facebook’s PII-based Targeting: Auditing a Data Broker’s Advertising Interface

Citation: G. Venkatadri et al., "Privacy Risks with Facebook's PII-Based Targeting: Auditing a Data Broker's Advertising Interface," 2018 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), San Francisco, CA, 2018, pp. 89-107.
Published: February 11th, 2016
Peeking Beneath the Hood of Uber

Citation: Chen, Le, Alan Mislove, and Christo Wilson. "Peeking Beneath the Hood of Uber." Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Internet Measurement Conference. ACM, 2015.
Published: October 28th, 2015
Identifying Traffic Differentiation in Mobile Networks

Citation: Arash Molavi Kakhki, Abbas Razaghpanah, Hyungjoon Koo, Anke Li, Rajeshkumar Golani, David Choffnes, Phillipa Gill, and Alan Mislove. “Identifying traffic differentiation in mobile networks.” Proceedings of the 2015 Internet Measurement Conference. 2015. DOI: 10.1145/2815675.2815691