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’m working on darkweb marketplace measurements. In particular, I am curious about how vendors succeed/fail in these marketplaces and whether the reputation systems that exist in these markets work. I sometimes 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 2017, 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 a recipient of the Cylab Presidential Fellowship 2022-2023, and the IEEE S&P Distinguished Paper Award (2018).

news

Feb 1, 2023 We just got two papers accepted to the ACM WebConf (WWW’23), one on misbehavior on TradingView and another on the advice given by financial influencers on Twitter.
Sep 1, 2022 I am going to TA 17-303: ‘Cryptocurrency, Blockchains, and Applications’ with Prof. Nicolas Christin.
Aug 1, 2022 I’ve been awarded the Cylab Presidential Fellowship for 2022-23. Thank you to the committee for your consideration!