Publications

This page serves as a repository for my publications.

Peer Reviewed - Accepted

Enhanced Outsourced and Secure Inference for Tall Sparse Decision Trees:
Andrew Quijano, Spyros T. Halkidis, Kevin Gallagher, Nikolaos Samaras, Kemal Akkaya
Accepted to IEEE IPCCC 2024.

Peer Reviewed - Published

What to Expect When You’re Accessing: An Exploration of User Privacy Rights in People Search Websites
Kejsi Take, Jordyn Young, Rasika Bhalerao, Kevin Gallagher, Andrea Forte, Damon McCoy, Rachel Greenstadt
Privacy Enhancing Technology Symposium 2024.

Enhancing the Unlinkability of Circuit-Based Anonymous Communications with k-Funnels
Vitor Nunes, José Brás, Afonso Carvalho, Diogo Barradas, Kevin Gallagher, Nuno Santos
The 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2023).

Studying the Online Deepfake Creation Community
Brian Timmerman, Pulak Mehta, Progga Debb, Kevin Gallagher, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, Damon McCoy, Siddharth Garg, Rachel Greenstadt
Journal of Online Trust and Safety.

Rethinking Realistic Adversaries for Anonymous Communication Systems
Kevin Gallagher, Diogo Barradas, Nuno Santos
Free and Open Communications on the Internet 2023 (FOCI 2023).

Can Deepfakes be created on a whim?
Pulak Metha, Gauri Japtap, Kevin Gallagher, Brian Timmerman, Progga Deb, Siddharth Garg, Rachel Greenstadt, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt
Fourth International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc 2023). Preprint available here.

“It Feels Like Whack-a-mole”: User Experiences of Data Removal from People Search Websites
Kejsi Take, Kevin Gallagher, Andrea Forte, Damon McCoy, Rachel Greenstadt
Privacy Enhancing Technology Symposium 2022.

COLBAC: Shifting Cybersecurity From Hierarchical to Horizontal Designs
Kevin Gallagher, Santiago Torres-Arias, Nasir Memon, Jessica Feldman
NSPW ‘21: New Security Paradigms Workshop

Peeling the Onion’s User Experience Layer: Examining Naturalistic Use of the Tor Browser
Kevin Gallagher, Sameer Patil, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, Damon McCoy, Nasir Memon
CCS’18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Freely Available here

New Me: Understanding Expert and Non-Expert Perceptions and Usage of the Tor Anonymity Network
Kevin Gallagher, Sameer Patil, Nasir Memon
Thirteenth Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (SOUPS 2017)

Predicting citation patterns: defining and determining influence
David Guy Brizan, Kevin Gallagher, Arnab Jahangir, Theodore Brown
Scientometrics 108, 183-200 (2016)

Thesis

Measurement and Improvement of the Tor User Experience
Kevin Gallagher
New York University Tandon School of Engineering

Other

This area contains other publications or speeches that I have written and published or otherwise delivered.

Blog Posts

Working Towards Democratic Computing Systems
Kevin Gallagher
Archived from the DCentral Website
NOTE: I have since left DCentral and Instituto Superior Técnico.

Speeches

Declaração para o Bloco de Esquerda de Almada
Kevin Gallagher
Reunião Aberta da Coordenadora Concelhia de Almada, 11 de Maio 2021,
Reunião de Zoom. Declaração.
Full version here.
Full English version here.