Alejandro Cuevas

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I joined CMU as a Ph.D. student in the Fall of 2019. I am currently working with Prof. Nicolas Christin. Broadly, I study reputation and social influence in online platforms. I’ve mostly conducted this work in the context of online anonymous marketplaces. I am curious about measuring and evaluating reputational outcomes across platforms (e.g., are reputation systems working?). I also think about how social media affects retail users’ financial decisions (e.g., investing). In the past I have worked in a variety of topics within security: vulnerability reproduction, deep learning for binary analyses, anonymous communications, moving target defenses, usable security, and computer security from legal and organizational perspectives.

I obtained my Bachelor of Science from The Pennsylvania State University as a Schreyer Scholar and a member of The Presidential Leadership Academy. I completed my honors thesis under the supervision of Prof. Peng Liu and Prof. Dinghao Wu as a member of the Penn State Cyber Security Lab. In 2023, I was an intern at Microsoft Research’s Plural Technology Collaboratory, mentored by Glen Weyl and Madeleine Daepp. In 2017-18, I was a Research Assistant in the DEDIS Lab at EPFL, under the supervision of Prof. Bryan Ford and Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux. I also interned at Microsoft’s CDP Team and PwC’s Advisory branch in 2016 and 2015, respectively.

I am also the co-founder of Redoux, a fragrance brand born in NY. We have received the inaugural Glossier Grant in 2021, and 2x Architectural Digest Cleverest Awards.

I am a recipient of the Cylab Presidential Fellowship 2022-2023, and the IEEE S&P Distinguished Paper Award (2018).

news

Jan 23, 2024 Our paper on identifying risky vendors in cryptocurrency P2P marketplaces is set to appear at WWW `24, congratulations Taro!
Jan 20, 2024 I will be giving talks at Purdue’s CERIAS security seminar on March 6th and at UW’s Security and Privacy Seminar on May 8th.
Oct 1, 2023 Our paper on reputation just got accepted to USENIX ‘24!.
Sep 1, 2023 My work at MSR on designing an LLM-based chatbot is up on arXiv. The work is under submission and the source code will be released soon.
May 31, 2023 I am going to spend the summer at Microsoft Research, in the Plural Technology Collaboratory.