Talks

Invited Talks, Conference Presentations, and Seminars

2025

  • Hiding a Group of Nodes from Unsupervised Graph Learning-Based Clustering
    Mathematics in Computation Seminar Series, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, August 2025.

  • WIP: Modeling Organizational Resilience: A Network-Based Simulation for Analyzing Recovery and Disruption of Ransomware Operations
    Cambridge Cybercrime Conference, Cambridge, UK, June 2025.
    Conference program · Liveblog mention

  • Relationships Matter: Modeling Dynamics of Cybercriminal Commodity-Based Groups Using Linguistic Analysis and Theories of Organization
    Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan, CAMS, January 2025.

2024

  • Relationships Matter: Linguistic Analysis behind the Organizational Dynamics of a Ransomware Gang Cognitive Security Institute, October 2024.
    Video

  • Relationships Matter: Reconstructing the Organizational Structure of a Ransomware Group
    APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, Boston, MA, September 2024.

  • Relationships Matter: Reconstructing the Organizational and Social Structure of a Ransomware Gang Black Hat USA, Las Vegas, NV, August 2024.
    Video · Black Hat briefing · Podcast interview

  • Relationships Matter: Reconstructing the Organizational Structure of a Ransomware Group
    Cybersecurity Seminar Series, USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA, June 2024.
    Event page

  • Relationships Matter: Reconstructing the Organizational Structure of a Ransomware Group Cambridge Cybercrime Conference, Cambridge, UK, June 2024.
    Conference program · Liveblog

  • Relationships Matter: Reconstructing the Organizational Structure of a Ransomware Group Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, Dallas, TX, April 2024.

  • Social, Linguistic, and Organizational Analyses of Russian eCrime Forums Cybersecurity Seminar, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN, April 2024.
    Video

  • Building and Testing a Network of Social Trust in an Underground Forum
    HotSoS Symposium, April 2024.

  • Organizational and Social Dynamics of a Cybercriminal Group: A Case of Russian Ransomware Gang
    Research Series Talk, Ostrom Workshop, Bloomington, IN, March 2024.
    Video

  • Social, Linguistic, and Organizational Analyses of Russian eCrime Forums
    M3AAWG, San Francisco, CA, February 2024.

2023

  • Social Network of Crimes on Dark Web
    Cybersecurity Summer Institute, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, May 2023.

2022

  • Exploring Social Network of Trust Across Major Crime Types in an Underground Forum
    APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, November 2022.