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Alexander Nelson

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Federal Grant PI

Assistant Department Head for Student Success

Also affiliated: University of California, Irvine (2016); University of Maryland, College Park (2013); University of San Francisco (2013); University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2015–2016)

12 h-index 39 pubs 466 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Alexander Nelson's research focuses on the development and application of advanced sensing technologies, machine learning, and computational methods. He has received significant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), including a $500,000 CAREER award for enhancing ambient capacitive sensing through improved resolution and multi-modal sensor fusion, and a $100,000 CCRI grant for infrastructure to perform side-channel attacks on cryptographic algorithms.

His recent publications demonstrate a diverse range of interests. These include work on low-power personalized gesture recognition using wearable textile capacitive sensor arrays, deep learning for breast cancer tissue classification from terahertz imaging, and self-supervised spatiotemporal transformers for group activity recognition. Nelson also investigates the replication of smart-city Internet of Things assets and the hardware implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Nelson has published 43 papers, accumulating over 500 citations and an h-index of 13. He collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including David Andrews, Han-Seok Seo, and Pha Nguyen, as well as Page D. Dobbs at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, with whom he shares multiple publications. He maintains an active lab website.

Metrics

  • h-index: 12
  • Publications: 39
  • Citations: 466

Positions

  • Assistant Department Head for Student Success 2023–present
    University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ORCID
  • Associate Professor 2023–present
    University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Electrical Engineering and COmputer Science ORCID
  • Assistant Professor 2017–2023
    University of Arkansas Computer Science and Computer Engineering ORCID

Selected Publications

  • Impact of water deprivation on broilers divergently selected for water efficiency (2026)
    Frontiers in Physiology DOI OpenAlex
  • Towards decentralization of distributed energy resource telemetry through a Solid to Modbus bridge (2025)
  • Effects of Light Wavelength on Broiler Performance, Blood Cell Profiles, Stress Levels, and Tibiotarsi Morphology (2025)
    Animals 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Power PUFs: Strengthening SRAM PUFs Against Fault Injection on Low-Cost IoT Devices (2025)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • PQ-Hammer: End-to-End Key Recovery Attacks on Post-Quantum Cryptography Using Rowhammer (2025)
    11 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • SoGAR: Self-Supervised Spatiotemporal Attention-Based Social Group Activity Recognition (2025)
    IEEE Access 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Solid-if-IoT: An Internet of Things Client Bridge to Interface with Solid Backend Infrastructure (2024)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Daisy-Chaining Embedded Processors for Enhanced Capacitive Sensor Array Resolution (2024)
  • Towards Sustainable and Efficient Rapid Prototyping of Capacitive Sensor Arrays (2024)
  • Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Murine THz Spectroscopy Images with Imprecise Annotations (2024)
  • Towards Cloud-based Infrastructure for Post-Quantum Cryptography Side-channel Attack Analysis (2023)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • SPARTAN: Self-supervised Spatiotemporal Transformers Approach to Group Activity Recognition (2023)
    36 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Visual Enhancement and Semantic Segmentation of Murine Tissue Scans with Pulsed THz Spectroscopy (2023)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A Masked Pure-Hardware Implementation of Kyber Cryptographic Algorithm (2022)
    27 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • When Frodo Flips (2022)
    Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security 37 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Federal Grants 2 $600,000 total

NSF Co-PI Oct 2022 - Sep 2024

CCRI:Planning-C:SCA-in-Cloud: Infrastructure to Perform Side-Channel Attacks on Cryptographic Algorithms

CCRI-CISE Cmnty Rsrch Infrstrc $100,000
NSF PI Jun 2023 - May 2028

CAREER: Enhancing ambient capacitive sensing through improved resolution and multi-modal sensor fusion

HCC-Human-Centered Computing, EPSCoR Co-Funding $500,000

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