Publications

2025

• Improving the Graph Challenge Reference Implementation. Inna Voloshchuk, Hayden Jananthan, Chansup Byun, Jeremy Kepner. IEEE MIT URTC, Oct 2025
• DBOS Network Sensing: A Web Services Approach to Collaborative Awareness. [Graph Challenge Student Champion]. Sophia Lockton, Jeremy Kepner, Michael Stonebraker, Hayden Jananthan, LaToya Anderson, William Arcand, David Bestor, William Bergeron, Alex Bonn, Daniel Burrill, Chansup Byun, Timothy Davis, Vijay Gadepally, Michael Houle, Matthew Hubbell, Michael Jones, Piotr Luszczek, Peter Michaleas, Lauren Milechin, Chasen Milner, Guillermo Morales, Julie Mullen, Michel Pelletier, Alex Poliakov, Andrew Prout, Albert Reuther, Antonio Rosa, Charles Yee, Alex Pentland. IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC) conference, Sep 2025
• Interactive Trillion Packet Anonymized Network Analysis with the GraphBLAS. Chasen Milner, Michael Houle, Hayden Jananthan, Michael Jones, Jeremy Kepner, Peter Michaleas, Inna Voloshchuk, Alex Pentland. IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC) conference, Sep 2025
• Cyber Orbits of Large Scale Network Traffic. Jeremy Kepner, Hayden Jananthan, Chasen Milner, Michael Houle, Michael Jones, Peter Michaleas, Alex Pentland. IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC) conference, Sep 2025
• Provenance Metadata Registries for Asset-Referenced Tokens. Thomas Hardjono, Denis Avrilionis.

2024

• Anonymized Network Sensing Graph Challenge. Hayden Jananthan, Michael Jones, William Arcand, David Bestor, William Bergeron, Daniel Burrill, Aydin Buluc, Chansup Byun, Timothy Davis, Vijay Gadepally, Daniel Grant, Michael Houle, Matthew Hubbell, Piotr Luszczek, Peter Michaleas, Lauren Milechin, Chase Milner, Guillermo Morales, Andrew Morris, Julie Mullen, Ritesh Patel, Alex Pentland, Sandeep Pisharody, Andrew Prout, Albert Reuther, Antonio Rosa, Gabriel Wachman, Charles Yee, Jeremy Kepner. IEEE HPEC 2024
• What is Normal? A Big Data Observational Science Model of Anonymized Internet Traffic. Jeremy Kepner, Hayden Jananthan, Michael Jones, William Arcand, David Bestor, William Bergeron, Daniel Burrill, Aydin Buluc, Chansup Byun, Timothy Davis, Vijay Gadepally, Daniel Grant, Michael Houle, Matthew Hubbell, Piotr Luszczek, Lauren Milechin, Chase Milner, Guillermo Morales, Andrew Morris, Julie Mullen, Ritesh Patel, Alex Pentland, Sandeep Pisharody, Andrew Prout, Albert Reuther, Antonio Rosa, Gabriel Wachman, Charles Yee, Peter Michaleas. IEEE HPEC 2024
• Hypersparse Traffic Matrices from Suricata Network Flows using GraphBLAS. Michael Houle, Michael Jones, Dan Wallmeyer, Risa Brodeur, Justin Burr, Hayden Jananthan, Sam Merrell, Peter Michaleas, Anthony Perez, Andrew Prout, Jeremy Kepner. IEEE HPEC 2024
• Temporal fingerprints: Identity matching across fully encrypted domains. Shahar Somin, Keeley Erhardt, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland. NeurIPS - Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
• Hidden Influence in Dynamic Networks. Keeley Erhardt. MIT DSpace
• Teaching Network Traffic Matrices in an Interactive Game Environment. Chasen Milner, Hayden Jananthan, Jeremy Kepner, Vijay Gadepally, Michael Jones, Peter Michaleas, Ritesh Patel, Sandeep Pisharody, Gabriel Wachman, Alex Pentland. GrAPL 2024 (https://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl/)

• Uncovering Coordinated Behavior and Community Structure via Characteristic Temporal Correlations. Shahar Somin, Jeremy Kepner, Alex Pentland. NetSciX 2024

• Identity Matching Within and Across Anonymity-Preserving Systems via Network Oriented Approach. Shahar Somin, Keeley Erhardt, Alex Pentland. NetSciX 2024

• Private energy statistics for independence testing and causal inference across two parties. Praneeth Vepakomma, Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri, Clément L. Canonne, Ramesh Raskar, and Alex Pentland. Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (https://petsymposium.org/cfp24.php)

2023

• Passive Network Sensor Placement Best Practices. Justin Burr, Kathleen Moriarty, James Globe, Jeremy Kepner, Michael Jones, Sandeep Pisharody. betternetworks.mit.edu

• Astrophysical Methods Applied to the Internet: Celestial Sphere, Observatories, Telescopes, Detectors, Background Radiation, Large Scale Structure, and Pulsars. Jeremy Kepner, Hayden Jananthan. MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science Seminar

• From Bits to Insights: Exploring Network Traffic, Traffic Matrices, and Heavy-Tailed Data. Christopher Howard, Hayden Jananthan, Jeremy Kepner. IEEE MIT URTC (https://urtc.mit.edu/)

• Testing RadiX-Nets: Advances in Viable Sparse Topologies. Kevin Kwak, Zack West, Hayden Jananthan, Jeremy Kepner. MIT URTC (https://urtc.mit.edu/)

• Algebraic Conditions on One-Step Breadth-First Search. Emma Fu, Hayden Jananthan, Jeremy Kepner. MIT URTC (https://urtc.mit.edu/)

• Fuzzy Relational Databases via Associative Arrays. Kevin Min, Hayden Jananthan, Jeremy Kepner. MIT URTC (https://urtc.mit.edu/)

• Hypersparse Traffic Matrix Construction using GraphBLAS on a DPU. William Bergeron, Michael Jones, Chase Barber, Kale DeYoung, George Amariucai, Kaleb Ernst, Nathan Fleming, Peter Michaleas, Sandeep Pisharody, Nathan Wells, Antonio Rosa, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Jeremy Kepner. IEEE HPEC (https://ieee-hpec.org/)

• Mapping of Internet ``Coastlines'' via Large Scale Anonymized Network Source Correlations. Hayden Jananthan, Jeremy Kepner, Michael Jones, William Arcand, David Bestor, William Bergeron, Chansup Byun, Timothy Davis, Vijay Gadepally, Daniel Grant, Micheal Houle, Matthew Hubbell, Anna Klein, Lauren Milechin, Guillermo Morales, Andrew Morris, Julie Mullen, Ritesh Patel, Alex Pentland, Sandeep Pisharody, Andrew Prout, Albert Reuther, Antonio Rosa, Siddharth Samsi, Tyler Trigg, Gabriel Wachman, Charles Yee, Peter Michaleas. IEEE HPEC (https://ieee-hpec.org/)

• Focusing and Calibration of Large Scale Network Sensors using GraphBLAS Anonymized Hyperspace Matrices. Jeremy Kepner, Michael Jones, Phil Dykstra, Chansup Byun, Timothy Davis, Hayden Jananthan, William Arcand, David Bestor, William Bergeron, Vijay Gadepally, Micheal Houle, Matthew Hubbell, Anna Klein, Lauren Milechin, Guillermo Morales, Julie Mullen, Ritesh Patel, Alex Pentland, Sandeep Pisharody, Andrew Prout, Albert Reuther, Antonio Rosa, Siddharth Samsi, Tyler Trigg, Charles Yee, Peter Michaleas. IEEE HPEC (https://ieee-hpec.org/)

• Hidden Messages: Mapping Nations and Media Campaigns. Keeley Erhardt, Alex Pentland. CMOT / Springer

• Quantifying Rhetoric Alignment using Node Embeddings on Temporal Graphs. Keeley Erhardt, Sandy Pentland. NetMob 2023

• Who Provides the Largest Megaphone? The Role of Google News in Promoting Kremlin Propaganda. Keeley Erhardt, Saurabh Khanna. International Conference for Computational Social Science (IC2S2)

• Are ChatGPT and Other Similar Systems the Modern Lernaean Hydras of AI?. Dimitrios Ioannidis, Jeremy Kepner, Andrew Bowne, Harriet Bryant. Suffolk Law Review

• Deployment of Real-Time Network Traffic Analysis using GraphBLAS Hypersparse Matrices and D4M Associative Arrays. Michael Jones, Jeremy Kepner, Andrew Prout, Timothy Davis, William Arcand, David Bestor, William Bergeron, Chansup Byun, Vijay Gadepally, Micheal Houle, Matthew Hubbell, Hayden Jananthan, Anna Klein,Lauren Milechin, Julie Mullen, Ritesh Patel, Sandeep Pisharody, Albert Reuther, Antonio Rosa, Siddharth Samsi, Charles Yee, Peter Michaleas. IEEE GrAPL Conference (https://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl/)

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