Dr. Brian Robert Callahan
academic, developer, with an eye towards a brighter techno-social life
Here you will find papers from our research center.
M. L. Cotrupi, A. Aurilio, S. Sanpietro, F. Torres, A. Kasturi, Q. Colognato, and B. R. Callahan, "Hardware robustness of quantum machine learning kernels for malware detection," Proc. AAAI Symp. Ser., 2026, preprint, DOI to come.
B. R. Callahan and M. Q. Shaikh, "Is cleaning costly? evaluating the -fret-clean anti-return-oriented programming mitigation from the OpenBSD operating system," in Proc. 6th IEEE Cyber Awareness Res. Symp. (CARS), Grand Forks, ND, USA, 2026, preprint, DOI to come.
B. Wroblewski, S. Ramirez Velandia, O. Franczykowski, M. Q. Shaikh, J. Esposito, and B. R. Callahan, "Write your way to better cybersecurity awareness training with active word games," in Proc. 6th IEEE Cyber Awareness Res. Symp. (CARS), Grand Forks, ND, USA, 2026, preprint, DOI to come.
N. M. Carducci, "When Does Quantum Computing Provide Advantage for Malware Detection? Structural Complexity and the Intermediate Complexity Window," in Proc. 2026 IEEE Int. Conf. AI Data Analytics (ICAD), Boston, MA, USA, 2026, pp. 1-7, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAD69378.2026.11609075.
B. R. Callahan, J. Esposito, A Arif, and R. Cortinas, "A final return for OpenBSD anti-return-oriented programming mitigations," in Proc. 21st Annu. Symp. Inf. Assurance (ASIA '26), Albany, NY, USA, 2026, pp. 98-110, doi: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6869668.
J. Esposito, A. Arif, R. Cortinas, and B. R. Callahan, "Porting and evaluating return-oriented programming defenses implemented by the OpenBSD operating system," in Proc. 14th Int. Symp. Digit. Forensics Secur. (ISDFS), Boston, MA, USA, 2026, pp. 1-7, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISDFS69419.2026.11458911.
M. Ivanicki and B. R. Callahan, "An explainable AI study of phishing detection model degradation across real-world events", in Proc. 14th Int. Symp. Digit. Forensics Secur. (ISDFS), Boston, MA, USA, 2026, pp. 1-5, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISDFS69419.2026.11459104.
M. L. Cotrupi and B. R. Callahan, "Towards practical quantum kernels for network intrusion detection," Proc. AAAI Symp. Ser., vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 339-342, 2025, doi: https://doi.org/10.1609/aaaiss.v7i1.36903.