domico@cs.wisc.edu 1205 University Avenue, Room 4576, Madison, WI 53706
Hello and welcome to my personal website! I am a PhD student in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I am also a research assistant and the current lead graduate student in the Security & Privacy Research Group, advised by Prof. Patrick McDaniel.
I am a security researcher whose core methodology is the application of AI. I am particularly interested in finding practical use-cases of AI in cybersecurity, though I am fond to exploring new areas. My recent research has focused on training reinforcement learning (RL) agents to evade network intrusion detection systems to amortize the cost discovering vulnerabilities in ML systems for security.
@misc{li2026mesaprioritizingvulnerablecommunication,
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
author = {Kunyang Li and Kyle Domico and Jonathan Gregory and Patrick McDaniel},
booktitle = {Under Review},
eprint = {2606.30602},
primaryclass = {cs.CR},
title = {MESA: Prioritizing Vulnerable Communication Channels for Securing Multi-Agent Systems},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.30602},
year = {2026}
}
@misc{ferrand2026longitudinalanalysessasttools,
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
author = {Jean-Charles {Noirot Ferrand} and Kyle Domico and Yohan Beugin and Patrick McDaniel},
booktitle = {Under Review},
eprint = {2605.07900},
primaryclass = {cs.CR},
title = {Longitudinal Analyses of SAST Tools: A CodeQL Case Study},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07900},
year = {2026}
}
@misc{domico2026rolelearningattackingmlbased,
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
author = {Kyle Domico and Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand and Patrick McDaniel},
booktitle = {Under Review},
eprint = {2602.10299},
primaryclass = {cs.CR},
title = {The Role of Learning in Attacking ML-based Network Intrusion Detection},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10299},
year = {2026}
}
@inproceedings{agents_cvpr26,
address = {Denver, CO},
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
author = {Kyle Domico and Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand and Ryan Sheatsley and Eric Pauley and Josiah Hanna and Patrick McDaniel},
booktitle = {Findings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
eprint = {2503.01734},
month = {June},
primaryclass = {cs.CR},
title = {Adversarial Agents: Black-Box Evasion Attacks with Reinforcement Learning},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01734},
year = {2026}
}
@inproceedings{pauley_secure_2025,
address = {San Diego, CA},
author = {Eric Pauley and Kyle Domico and Blaine Hoak and Ryan Sheatsley and Quinn Burke and Yohan Beugin and Engin Kirda and Patrick McDaniel},
booktitle = {2025 Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS)},
month = {February},
publisher = {Internet Society},
title = {Secure {IP} {Address} {Allocation} at {Cloud} {Scale}},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14999},
year = {2025}
}