A man in the woods.
I'm a PhD student in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a research assistant in the Security & Privacy Research Group, advised by Prof. Patrick McDaniel. My research interests are in systems and network security. In current work, I'm designing efficient integrity checking techniques for cloud storage systems.
Email: qkb@cs.wisc.edu
Mailing address: 1210 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706

Recent News

09/2024 Our paper "Securing Cloud File Systems with Trusted Execution" was accepted for publication in IEEE TDSC!
08/2024 Our paper "ParTEETor: A System for Partial Deployments of TEEs within Tor" was accepted at the Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES@CCS 2024)!
08/2024 Our paper "EIPSIM: Modeling Secure IP Address Allocation at Cloud Scale" was accepted at NDSS 2025!
03/2024 I'll be on the PC for IEEE S&P 2025! Looking forward to the reviews and discussions ahead.
11/2023 I'll be on the Shadow PC for EuroSys 2024! Looking forward to the reviews and discussions ahead.

Publications

2025 EIPSIM: Modeling Secure IP Address Allocation at Cloud Scale
Eric Pauley, Kyle Domico, Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley, Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, Engin Kirda, and Patrick McDaniel
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
PDFarXiv
2024 Cloud Storage Integrity at Scale: A Case for Dynamic Hash Trees
Quinn Burke, Ryan Sheatsley, Rachel King, Michael Swift, and Patrick McDaniel
(in submission)
PDFarXiv
Securing Cloud File Systems with Trusted Execution
Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, Blaine Hoak, Rachel King, Eric Pauley, Ryan Sheatsley, Mingli Yu, Ting He, Thomas La Porta,
and Patrick McDaniel
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
PDFarXivDOI
ParTEETor: A System for Partial Deployments of TEEs within Tor
Rachel King, Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, Blaine Hoak, Kunyang Li, Eric Pauley, Ryan Sheatsley, and Patrick McDaniel
Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES) @ CCS 2024
PDFDOI
Stealthy Misreporting Attacks Against Load Balancing
Mingli Yu, Quinn Burke, Thomas La Porta, and Patrick McDaniel
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
PDFDOI
Efficient Host Intrusion Detection using Hyperdimensional Computing
Yujin Nam, Rachel King, Quinn Burke, Minxuan Zhou, Patrick McDaniel, and Tajana Rosing
(in submission)
2023 mMLSnet: Multilevel Security Network With Mobility (Best paper runner-up)
Mingli Yu, Quinn Burke, Thomas La Porta, and Patrick McDaniel
IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM)
PDFDOI
Joint Caching and Routing in Cache Networks with Arbitrary Topology
Tian Xie, Sanchal Thakkar, Ting He, Patrick McDaniel, and Quinn Burke
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
PDFDOI
Systematic Evaluation of Geolocation Privacy Mechanisms
Alban Héon, Ryan Sheatsley, Quinn Burke, Blaine Hoak, Eric Pauley, Yohan Beugin, and Patrick McDaniel
Preprint
PDFarXiv
2022 Enforcing Multilevel Security Policies in Unstable Networks
Quinn Burke, Fidan Mehmeti, Rahul George, Trent Jaeger, Thomas La Porta, and Patrick McDaniel
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
PDFDOI
Privacy-Preserving Protocols for Smart Cameras and Other IoT Devices
Yohan Beugin, Quinn Burke, Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley, Eric Pauley, Gang Tan, Syed Rafiul Hussain, and Patrick McDaniel
Preprint
PDFarXiv
Building a Privacy-Preserving Smart Camera System
Yohan Beugin, Quinn Burke, Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley, Eric Pauley, Gang Tan, Syed Rafiul Hussain, and Patrick McDaniel
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
PDFarXivDOI
Joint Caching and Routing in Cache Networks with Arbitrary Topology
Tian Xie, Sanchal Thakkar, Ting He, Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, and Quinn Burke
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
PDFDOI
Measuring and Mitigating the Risk of IP Reuse on Public Clouds
Eric Pauley, Ryan Sheatsley, Blaine Hoak, Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, and Patrick McDaniel
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)
PDFarXivDOIFAQ
A Machine Learning and Computer Vision Approach to Geomagnetic Storm Forecasting
Kyle Domico, Ryan Sheatsley, Yohan Beugin, Quinn Burke, and Patrick McDaniel
Machine Learning in Heliophysics Conference (ML-Helio)
PDFarXivDOI
2021 Misreporting Attacks Against Load Balancers in Software-Defined Networking
Quinn Burke, Patrick McDaniel, Thomas La Porta, Mingli Yu, and Ting He
Mobile Networks and Applications, Springer
PDFDOI
Flow Table Security in SDN: Adversarial Reconnaissance and Intelligent Attacks
Mingli Yu, Tian Xie, Ting He, Patrick McDaniel, and Quinn Burke
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
PDFDOI
MLSNet: A Policy Complying Multilevel Security Framework for Software Defined Networking
Stefan Achleitner, Quinn Burke, Patrick McDaniel, Trent Jaeger, Thomas La Porta, and Srikanth Krishnamurthy
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
PDFarXivDOI
2020 Misreporting Attacks in Software-Defined Networking
Quinn Burke, Patrick McDaniel, Thomas La Porta, Mingli Yu, and Ting He
International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm)
PDFDOI
Flow Table Security in SDN: Adversarial Reconnaissance and Intelligent Attacks
Mingli Yu, Ting He, Patrick McDaniel, and Quinn Burke
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
PDFDOI