Dr. Ellis Fenske

Assistant Professor of Cyber Science

United States Naval Academy

Courses Taught


Fall 2021

  • SY301 - Data Structures for Cyber Operations
Spring 2021
  • SY204 - Cyber Systems Programming \& Operating Systems Fundamentals
  • SY308 - Security Fundamental Principles (Cryptography \& Binary Exploitation)
Fall 2020
  • SY201 - Cyber Fundamentals I
  • SY301 - Data Structures for Cyber Operations
Spring 2020
  • SY308 - Security Fundamental Principles
  • SY486C - Anonymous Communication
Fall 2019
  • SY201 - Cyber Fundamentals I
Spring 2019
  • SY110 - Introduction to Cyber Security
  • SY308 - Security Fundamental Principles
Fall 2018
  • SY301 - Data Structures for Cyber Operations
Spring 2018, 2015
  • CMPS/MATH 2170 - Discrete Mathematics (Tulane University)
Student Projects -- Supervised
  1. Independent Research Project: Jon Goohs. Reasonable Expectation of Privacy in an IP Address - The Tor Browser and Other Anonymization Measures} 2021. Columbia Undergraduate Law Review.
  2. Independent Research Project: Eric Towe. State of Knowledge on Wi-Fi MAC Randomization. 2020.
  3. Capstone Project: Annie Oakley, Allie Freedman, Colin Gavin, Kestrel Kuhne. Intentionally Fingerprintable Websites Within Tor. 2020.
  4. Capstone Project: Pedro Castillo-Valdes, Jordan Gonyea, Joaquin Gabriel. Pluggable Transports in Tor. 2020
  5. Capstone Project: Brittney Slook, Alex Lopez, Emily Klitgard. Special Agent Alexa: Unintentional Recording and Eavesdropping Vulnerabilities and Applications of Amazon Echo Devices. 2020.
  6. Independent Research: Morgan Giraud. Party Selection and Trust Assumptions in a Distributed Trust Anonymity System. 2018.