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Rob G. Jansen, PhD

Computer Scientist, Researcher, and Principal Investigator
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA

EXPERIENCE

  • 2011 – present

    U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

  • 2008 – 2012

    PhD, University of Minnesota

INTERESTS

  • Computer Security
  • Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • Distributed Systems
  • Networking

CURRENT FOCI

  • Website Fingerprinting Methods and Analysis
  • Censorship Evasion with Proteus
  • Network Simulation with Shadow

RESEARCH THEMES

Internet Censorship Circumvention
How can we design technology that disrupts censorship and promotes free and open communication on the internet?

Encrypted Traffic Analysis
What can we learn from encrypted network traffic patterns and how can we protect against encrypted traffic analysis?

Privacy-Preserving Network Measurement
How can we conduct measurements of internet communication systems without invading the privacy of the systems' users?

Network and Distributed System Simulation
How can we run real, unmodified applications in a network simulation environment while meeting high performance requirements?

Overlay Network Performance Analysis
Which technologies can improve performance in overlay networks and how can we analyze and compare performance trade-offs?

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  1. Rob JansenRyan Wails, and Aaron Johnson:
    Repositioning Real-World Website Fingerprinting on Tor. Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, 2024.
  2. Anna Harbluk Lorimer,  Rob Jansen, and Nick Feamster:
    Extended abstract: Traffic Splitting for Pluggable Transports. Workshop on Free and Open Communication on the Internet, 2024.
  3. Rob JansenRyan Wails, and Aaron Johnson:
    Informal: A Measurement of Genuine Tor Traces for Realistic Website Fingerprinting. Technical Report, 2024.
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