Research Interests: Security of machine learning systems, adversarial machine learning, and reinforcement learning. My dissertation focuses on building robust systems with adversarial reinforcement learning agents.
@misc{adversarialagents2025,
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
author = {Kyle Domico and Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand and Ryan Sheatsley and Eric Pauley and Josiah Hanna and Patrick McDaniel},
booktitle = {Under Review},
eprint = {2503.01734},
primaryclass = {cs.CR},
title = {Adversarial Agents: Black-Box Evasion Attacks with Reinforcement Learning},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01734},
year = {2025}
}
Secure IP Address Allocation at Cloud Scale Eric Pauley, Kyle Domico, Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley, Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, Engin Kirda, Patrick McDaniel
2025 Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), 2025
@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}
}
Professional Activities
Teaching Experience
CS 642 - Introduction to Information
Security, Course Design & Guest Lecturer, Fall
2024
Invited Talks and Presentations
Adversarial Agents: Black-Box Evasion Attacks with Reinforcement Learning, Midwest Machine Learning Symposium 2025, June 2025
Generalist Adversarial Policies in Black-Box Settings, UW-Madison RL Reading Group, October 2024
A Machine Learning and Computer Vision Approach to Geomagnetic Storm Forecasting, Penn State ICDS Symposium, October 2021
Conferences
Reviewer
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)2026
External Reviewer
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)2025
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P) 2025
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS)2024
Artifact Reviewer
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P)2026
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PoPETS) 2026
Other Service
NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), Undergraduate Student Mentor
UW-Madison CS Welcome Weekend 2025, Poster Presenter and Open Lab Volunteer