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Last published 2026
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Alexander Nelson

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Federal Grant PI

Associate Professor

Also affiliated: United States Air Force Research Laboratory (2015–2016); Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (2015–2016); UC Irvine Health (2016); Sigma Research (United States) (2016); University of Maryland, College Park (2013); Syracuse University (2014); University of San Francisco (2013); University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2015–2016)

Faculty Researcher

13 h-index 43 pubs 493 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Alexander Nelson's research focuses on the application of advanced computational techniques, particularly deep learning and artificial intelligence, to address challenges in diverse fields. His work in medical imaging investigates the use of deep learning for classifying breast cancer tissue from terahertz imaging, employing methods like wavelet synchro-squeezed transformation and transfer learning. In the realm of computer vision and activity recognition, Nelson's research includes developing transformer-based approaches for self-supervised spatiotemporal activity recognition, such as SPARTAN and Sogar.

Nelson also contributes to the field of cybersecurity, with a focus on post-quantum cryptography. His publications examine power-based side-channel attack analysis on post-quantum cryptography algorithms and investigate end-to-end key recovery attacks using Rowhammer vulnerabilities. Furthermore, his work extends to the development of assistive technologies, including an FPGA-based upper-limb rehabilitation device that utilizes multi-task recurrent neural networks for gesture recognition and motion evaluation.

His scholarly contributions are reflected in a h-index of 13, with 42 publications and 464 citations. Nelson has secured federal funding, including a $500,000 NSF CAREER award for enhancing ambient capacitive sensing through improved resolution and multi-modal sensor fusion, and a $100,000 NSF CCRI award as Co-PI for infrastructure to perform side-channel attacks on cryptographic algorithms. He actively collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including David Andrews, Han‐Seok Seo, Pha Nguyen, and Page D. Dobbs.

Metrics

  • h-index: 13
  • Publications: 43
  • Citations: 493

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 3 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)
    8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • SoGAR: Self-Supervised Spatiotemporal Attention-Based Social Group Activity Recognition (2025)
    IEEE Access 6 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)
    35 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 35 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

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

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