Drew Davidson

Associate Professor, University of Kansas EECS

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Contact

  • Email: drewdavidson@ku
  • Twitter: @drewdavidsonku

About

I am a computer scientist broadly focused on security and privacy. I'm currently working on software supply chain security, blockchain technology and security for autonomous systems.

Publications

The best list of my publications is maintained automatically through DBLP. My page is here

News

August 2026
I am going to be at the CSSI 2026 PI meeting to discuss our work on StraboSpot Quality Control and Quality Assurance, September 14th-15th. (N/A)
August 2026
I am happy to announce that our paper Hurry Up and Wait: Malware Detection Timelines and Minimum Release Age for npm has been accepted at SCORED 2026
August 2026
I'm co-chairing the program committee for SCORED '26 (Conference Website)
February 2026
I am happy to announce that our paper Evaluating LLM-Based Detection of Malicious Package Updates in npm has been accepted at RAID 2025 (Conference Website)
August 2026
I am happy to announce that our paper Spilling the Tea: Uncovering TEA Token Abuse in npm has been accepted at RAID 2025 (Conference Website)
August 2026
I am happy to announce that our paper Stepping out of Bounds: Security Impact of Allowing Packages on npm to Declare External Dependencies has been accepted at SCORED 2025 (Conference Website)
December 2024
I will be at ACSAC 2024 where three papers on which I collaborated are being presented. Check out the work that Bailey Srimoungchahn led on Assessing UAV Sensor Spoofing: More Than a GNSS Problem, the work that Dalton Brucker-Hahn led on CloudCover: Enforcement of Multi-Hop Network Connections in Microservice Deployments, and the work that Yousif Dafalla led on Web-Armour: Mitigating Reconnaissance and Vulnerability Scanning with Scan-Impeding Delays in Web Deployments (Conference Website)
December 2024
I'm pleased that our collaborative work with the Department Geology on Strabospot group workflows will be at the GEO OSE PI Meeting this week (Conference Website)
September 2024
I'll be presenting a poster on my lab's work on enhancing security and utility for those who exclusively use public computers at the SaTC PI meeting in Pittsburg, PA from September 3rd - September 5th. Come say hi! (Conference Website)
August 2024
I'll be presenting a poster on some collaborative work with my colleagues in cognitive science and geology on developing and applying automatic QA/QC analysis to data in the StraboSpot geologic information system. Come say hi! (Conference Website)