William Robertson
About
William Robertson is a professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Engineering at Northeastern University, based in Boston. He co-directs the Northeastern Systems Security Lab and is principal investigator for the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute's Diverge Lab. Robertson’s research revolves around improving the security of operating systems, mobile devices, and the web, as well as making use of techniques such as security by design, program analysis, and anomaly detection. Prior to joining Northeastern in 2011, he was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley. Robertson was involved in the California Top-to-Bottom-Review and the Ohio EVEREST project as a red team member. In this capacity, he demonstrated that electronic voting systems were susceptible to large-scale attacks that could exploit vulnerabilities in both the firmware and the physical security of the components. His work led to significant changes in electronic voting policy in both states.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Bayesian event classification for intrusion detection
Year: 2003
Citations: 591
Venue: 19th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2003. Proceedings.
Latest Recorded Paper
MUZZLE: Adaptive Agentic Red-Teaming of Web Agents Against Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks
Year: 2026
Citations: 0
Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.09222
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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