Ryan Amos

Hello! I'm a Lead Software Engineer at Panorama Education on the Security Squad. My role involves implementing, improving, and coordinating platform security.

I received my PhD from Princeton in April 2022. My PhD advisors were Prateek Mittal and Ed Felten. My dissertation work focused on longitudinal internet measurements to address and understand consumer protection issues. I'm generally interested in cryptography, security, privacy, and tech policy. Additionally, I have experience in computational genomics and computational immunology.

In my spare time, I climb rocks, I play the guitar, and I ferment things (usually intentionally), I help run a local board game group, and I run a D&D campaign. Previously, I founded Princeton University Blacksmiths, I was a director for the New Jersey Blacksmiths Association, and I taught rock climbing.

My publications and ongoing projects can be found on my resume (link).

You can reach me at ryanamos@protonmail.com.

Research

Ryan Amos, Gunes Acar, Eli Lucherini, Mihir Kshirsagar, Arvind Narayanan, Jonathan Mayer. Privacy Policies Over Time: Curation and Analysis of a Million Document Dataset. WWW '21.
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Ryan Amos, Roland Maio, Prateek Mittal. (Author list subject to change) Reviews in motion: a large scale, longitudinal study of review recommendations on Yelp. In submission.
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Ryan Amos, Marios Georgiou, Aggelos Kiayias, Mark Zhandry. One-shot signatures and applications to hybrid quantum/classical authentication. STOC '20.
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Matthew J Salganik, et al. Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration. PNAS '20
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Yoonjoo Choi, Jacob M Furlon, Ryan B Amos, Karl E Griswold, Chris Bailey-Kellogg. DisruPPI: structure-based computational redesign algorithm for protein binding disruption. Bioinformatics vol. 34.
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Jason H Moore, Ryan Amos, Jeff Kiralis, Peter C Andrews. Heuristic Identification of Biological Architectures for Simulating Complex Hierarchical Genetic Interactions. Genetic Epidemiology vol. 39
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Incomplete works

These are works that are incomplete, and are shown here as documentation of roads not fully travelled. Perhaps one day I can return to finish these.

Ryan Amos, Samuel Ginzberg, Sameer Waugh, Edward W. Felten, Michael Freedman, Prateek Mittal. Shuffling the Cards: An Information-Theoretic Defense Against Side Channel Attacks Draft paper link.

Ryan Amos, Edward W. Felten. Incentive-Driven Randomness Beacons Draft paper link.