Publications

  • G.L. Matthews, T. Morrison, and A.W. Murphy, Curve-lifted codes for local recovery using lines. Designs, Codes, and Cryptography, April 2024. Link here

  • G.L. Matthews, A.W. Murphy, and W. Santos, Fractional decoding of r-Hermitian codes. Designs, Codes, and Cryptography, August 2023. Link here

  • G.L. Matthews and A.W. Murphy. Norm-trace-lifted codes over binary fields. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2022. Link here

  • A.W. Murphy. Codes from norm-trace curves: local recovery and fractional decoding. Ph.D. Thesis, April 2022. Link here

  • G.L. Matthews and A.W. Murphy. Cryptography, in Mathematics in Cyber Research. CRC Publishing, February 2022. Link here

  • G.L. Matthews, A.W. Murphy, and W. Santos. Fractional decoding of codes from the Hermitian curve. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2021. Link here

  • W. Gerych, L. Buquicchio, K. Chandrasekaran, A. Abdulaziz, H. Mansoor, A. Murphy, E. Rundensteiner, and E. Agu. BurstPU: Classification of Weakly Labeled Datasets with Sequential Bias. IEEE BigData Conference, December 2020. Link here

Miscellaneous

Government contracting

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

  • Finnish Picard, August 2025-
    Description: Pursued methods of finding logical operators for quantum error correcting codes, in order to test noise modeling approaches for physical quantum systems.

  • ArcReACTOR, August 2024-
    Description: Modeling of system vulnerability using tools from graph theory.

  • Spicewood, April 2025-November 2025
    Description: Developed proposals for a dozen novel communications channels and methods for low probability of detection and low probability of interception communications.

  • Foundational Cryptographic Capabilities, November 2024-January 2025
    Description: Developing and combining protocols from varied fields in order to push forward towards application.

  • Defensive Cyber Initiatives, January 2023-April 2025
    Technical Lead, August 2023-April 2025
    Description: Explored non-mathematical approaches to metrology, with a focus of improving understanding of resilience of cyberphysical systems.

  • Cryptography, April 2024-August 2024
    Description: Securing the access of healthcare information through the development of modern cryptographic protocols into software.

  • Unmanned Maritime Systems, January 2023-May 2024
    Description: Improved systems engineering processes with respect to security and autonomy of naval capabilities.

  • Applied Quantum Communications, May 2023-January 2024
    Description: Worked on leveraging internal APL quantum channel models in tandem with modern quantum error correction methods.

  • Cyber Anomaly Detection, February 2023-December 2023
    Description: Collaborated on formation of anomaly detection framework for military platform electronics buses, with an aim for near-future integration.