Publications

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2026

• Adversarial Agents: Black-Box Evasion Attacks with Reinforcement Learning
  Kyle Domico, Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Ryan Sheatsley, Eric Pauley, Josiah Hanna, Patrick McDaniel
  Findings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
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  @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}
  }
  

• The Role of Learning in Attacking Intrusion Detection Systems
  Kyle Domico, Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Patrick McDaniel
  Under Review, 2026
  PDF Cite

  @misc{domico2026rolelearningattackingintrusion,
   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 Intrusion Detection Systems},
   url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10299},
   year = {2026}
  }
  

2025

• Secure IP Address Allocation at Cloud Scale
  Eric Pauley, Kyle Domico, Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley, Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, Engin Kirda, Patrick McDaniel
  Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), 2025
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  @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}
  }
  

2024

• Generalist Adversarial Policies in Black-Box Settings
  Kyle Domico
  Master Thesis, 2024
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  @mastersthesis{domico_generalistpolicies2024,
   author = {Kyle Domico},
   booktitle = {Master Thesis},
   month = {December},
   school = {University of Wisconsin-Madison},
   title = {Generalist Adversarial Policies in Black-Box Settings},
   url = {ms_thesis.pdf},
   year = {2024}
  }
  

2023

• The Efficacy of Transformer-Based Adversarial Attacks in Security Domains
  Kunyang Li, Kyle Domico, Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Patrick McDaniel
  MILCOM 2023 — Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber, 2023
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  @inproceedings{Li2310:Efficacy,
   address = {Boston, USA},
   author = {Kunyang Li and Kyle Domico and Jean-Charles {Noirot Ferrand} and Patrick McDaniel},
   booktitle = {MILCOM 2023 - Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber},
   days = {30},
   month = {October},
   pages = {6},
   title = {The Efficacy of {Transformer-Based} Adversarial Attacks in Security Domains},
   url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11597},
   year = {2023}
  }
  

2022

• A Machine Learning and Computer Vision Approach to Geomagnetic Storm Forecasting
  Kyle Domico, Ryan Sheatsley, Yohan Beugin, Quinn Burke, Patrick McDaniel
  Machine Learning in Heliophysics (ML-Helio), 2022
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  @inproceedings{domico2022machinelearningcomputervision,
   archiveprefix = {arXiv},
   author = {Kyle Domico and Ryan Sheatsley and Yohan Beugin and Quinn Burke and Patrick McDaniel},
   booktitle = {Machine Learning in Heliophysics (ML-Helio)},
   eprint = {2204.05780},
   primaryclass = {cs.LG},
   title = {A Machine Learning and Computer Vision Approach to Geomagnetic Storm Forecasting},
   url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05780},
   year = {2022}
  }