Professor Howes is an educator, researcher, and developer with a diverse background spanning business and technology.
Teaching
- Computer programming in C
- Data structures
Research
- Cryptography and provable security
- Private and covert communication systems
- Cryptocurrencies and cryptoeconomics
Representative Publications
Luke A. Bauer, James K. Howes, Sam A. Markelon, Vincent Bindschaedler, and Thomas Shrimpton. Leveraging Generative Models for Covert Messaging: Challenges and Tradeoffs for "Dead-Drop" Deployments. Fourteenth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY '24). Porto, Portugal, 2024, pp. 67–78. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626232.3653264
James K. Howes, Marios Georgiou, Alex J. Malozemoff and Thomas Shrimpton. Security Foundations for Application-Based Covert Communication Channels. 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP '22). San Francisco, CA, USA, 2022, pp. 1971–1986. https://doi.org/10.1109/SP46214.2022.9833752
Education
PhD, Computer Science (in progress) – University of Florida
MS, Computer Science – University of Florida
MBA – University of Washington
BS, Economics – Strayer University