Ed Kaiser, Ph.D.

About Me:

I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Portland State University, in Portland, Oregon, USA. My thesis advisor was Wu-chang Feng. My thesis, entitled "Addressing Automated Adversaries of Network Applications", investigated methods to detect adversarial automation, to combine detectors to predict if a client is malicious, and to disincentivize undesirable automated behaviors. These research challenges were investigated in the contexts of cheating in multiplayer online games and resource consumption attacks against Web-based applications.

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

Anti-Cheating
Network Security
Reputation Systems

Publications & Presentations:

2010

kaPoW Webmail: Effective Disincentives Against Spam (paper | slides)

Wu-chang Feng, Ed Kaiser. In CEAS, July 2010.

Helping TicketMaster: Chaning the Economics for Ticket Robots with Geographic Proof-of-Work (paper | slides)

Ed Kaiser, Wu-chang Feng. In IEEE Global Internet, March 2010.

Addressing Automated Adversaries of Network Applications (dissertation | slides)

Edward Kaiser. March 2010.

2009

PlayerRating: A Reputation System for Multiplayer Online Games (paper | slides)

Ed Kaiser, Wu-chang Feng. In NetGames, November 2009.

Fides: Remote Anomaly-Based Cheat Detection Using Client Emulation (paper | slides)

Ed Kaiser, Wu-chang Feng, Travis Schluessler. In ACM CCS, November 2009.

2008

Stealth Measurements for Cheat Detection in On-line Games (paper | slides)

Wu-chang Feng, Ed Kaiser, Travis Schluessler. In NetGames, October 2008.

mod_kaPoW: Putting the 'PoW' in Proof-of-Work (abstract | poster | web demo)

Ed Kaiser, Wu-chang Feng. In ACM SIGCOMM (demo session), August 2008.

mod_kaPoW: Protecting the Web with Transparent Proof-of-Work (paper)

Ed Kaiser, Wu-chang Feng. In IEEE Global Internet, April 2008.

2007

mod_kaPoW: Mitigating DoS with Transparent Proof-of-Work (abstract | poster)

Ed Kaiser, Wu-chang Feng. In ACM CoNEXT (poster session), December 2007.

The Case for Public Work (paper)

Wu-chang Feng, Ed Kaiser. In IEEE Global Internet, May 2007.

2005

The Design and Implementation of Network Puzzles (paper)

Wu-chang Feng, Ed Kaiser, Wu-chi Feng, Antione Luu. In IEEE INFOCOM, March 2005.

Publicly Auditable Puzzles (abstract | poster)

Ed Kaiser, Wu-chang Feng. In IEEE INFOCOM (poster session), March 2005.

Panoptes: Scalable Low-Power Video Sensor Networking Technologies (article)

Wu-chi Feng, Ed Kaiser, Wu-chang Feng, Mickael Le Baillif. In ACM TOMCCAP, January 2005.

2004

Reducing Malicious Traffic With IP Puzzles (abstract | poster)

Ed Kaiser, Wu-chang Feng, Wu-chi Feng, Antione Luu. In ACM SIGCOMM (poster session), August 2004.

2003

Panoptes: A Scalable Architecture for Video Sensor Networking Applications (paper)

Wu-chi Feng, Brian Code, Ed Kaiser, Mike Shea, Wu-chang Feng, Louis Bavoil. In ACM Multimedia, November 2003.