I am a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science department at the University of Pittsburgh studying under Dr. Adam Lee.

Refereed Conference and Workshop Papers

[C11a] Nicholas L. Farnan, Adam J. Lee, Panos K. Chrysanthis, and Ting Yu, "Don't Reveal My Intension: Protecting User Privacy Using Declarative Preferences during Distributed Query Processing", in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 16th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2011), September 2011.
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Extended version available as [T11a].
[C10a] Nicholas L. Farnan, Adam J. Lee, and Ting Yu, "Investigating Privacy-Aware Distributed Query Evaluation", in Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES 2010), October 2010.
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[C09a] José Brustoloni, Nicholas L. Farnan, Ricardo Villamarín-Salomón, and David Kyle, "Efficient Detection of Bots in Subscribers' Computers", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009), June 2009.
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[C08a] Peter Djalaliev, Muhammad A. Jamshed, Nicholas L. Farnan, and José Brustoloni, "Sentinel: Hardware-Accelerated Mitigation of Bot-Based DDoS Attacks", in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2008), August 2008.
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Technical Reports

[T11a] Nicholas L. Farnan, Adam J. Lee, Panos K. Chrysanthis, and Ting Yu, "Don't Reveal My Intension: Protecting User Privacy Using Declarative Preferences during Distributed Query Processing", in University of Pittsburgh Department of Computer Science Technical Report No. TR-11-179, October 2011.
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Extended version of [C11a].

Spring 2010:

TA for CS1653 with Dr. Adam Lee
Information on Bouncy Castle and the Javalab can be found here

TA for CS1567 with Dr Daniel Mossé
Instructions for working on the Roomba robots can be found here

Fall 2009:

TA for CS0007 with Dr. Jan Wiebe

Spring 2009:

TA for CS1502 with Dr. Jan Wiebe
Homework solutions will be posted here are no longer available.

Fall 2008:

TA for CS1666 with Dr. Bob Daley
A knowledge base for the UT3 editor/Maya can be found here

Spring 2008:

TA for CS1501 with Dr. John Ramirez

E-mail: nlf4 [at] cs [dot] pitt [dot] edu
Phone: 1-412-624-7253
Office: 6503 Sennott Square
Department of Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213