Shae McFadden

PhD Student

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Dept. of Informatics

King's College London

Currently a Ph.D. candidate, supervised by Dr. Fabio Pierazzi, at King’s College London, investigating the applications of deep reinforcement learning to cybersecurity. A passion for the cross-section between artificial intelligence and cybersecurity resulted in collaborations with the Systems Security Research Lab (S2Lab) at UCL and the AI for Cyber Defence Research Centre (AICD) at The Alan Turing Institute. Graduated from King’s College London with a first-class B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science specialising in Artificial Intelligence. During undergraduate studies, was awarded the Layton Research Award, the Alan Fairbourn Memorial Prize, and the Associateship of King’s College.

News

Nov 01, 2024 Tesseract has been selected as a finalist in the ACSAC Cybersecurity Artifact Competition.
Oct 25, 2024 Our passive recovery paper has been accepted to the ARTMAN workshop co-located with ACSAC.
May 14, 2024 I will be attending IEEE S&P to present our paper in DLSP.

Selected Publications

  1. ACSAC Competition
    Impact of "TESSERACT: Eliminating Experimental Bias in Malware Classification across Space and Time"
    Shae McFadden, Zeliang Kan, Daniel Arp, Feargus Pendlebury, Roberto Jordaney, and 3 more authors
    2024
  2. ARTMAN
    The Impact of Active Learning on Availability Data Poisoning for Android Malware Classifiers
    Shae McFadden, Zeliang Kan, Lorenzo Cavallaro, and Fabio Pierazzi
    In Proc. of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference Workshops (ACSAC Workshops) , 2024
  3. DLSP
    Wendigo: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Denial-of-Service Query Discovery in GraphQL
    Shae McFadden, Marcello Maugeri, Chris Hicks, Vasilis Mavroudis, and Fabio Pierazzi
    In Proc. of the IEEE Workshop on Deep Learning Security and Privacy (DLSP) , 2024
  4. arXiv
    TESSERACT: Eliminating Experimental Bias in Malware Classification across Space and Time (Extended Version)
    Zeliang Kan, Shae McFadden, Daniel Arp, Feargus Pendlebury, Roberto Jordaney, and 3 more authors
    2024

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