Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK)

B 505, R & D Block Associate Professor

IIIT Delhi, Okhla, Phase III TEDx Speaker, ACM Distinguished Speaker,
New Delhi - 110020 ACM India Eminent Speaker
pk@iiitd.ac.in precog.iiitd.edu.in

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Sep 2004 - May 2009.
Advisor: Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor

M.S., Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Sep 2004 - May 2007.
Advisor: Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor

M.S., Software Systems, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India. Dec 2000 - May 2002.
Advisor: Dr. Sandip Deb

B. Eng., Electronics and Communication Engineering, Madras University, India. Apr 1994 - Apr 1998.

PROFESSIONAL EXPEREINCE
Associate Professor - Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India, 1 July, 2015 - Present

Visiting Associate Professor - International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India, 1 May,
2018 - 30 June, 2019. On Sabbatical.

Affiliate Faculty - International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India, 31 August, 2016 -
30 April, 2018

Visiting Researcher - Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Saarbrucken, Germany, 1 May, 2016 - 31
July, 2016

Assistant Professor - Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India, 3 Aug, 2009 - 31 June,
2015

Visiting Researcher - Data Security Council of India, 1 Aug, 2015 - July 2016

Visiting Researcher - Adobe Research Lab, Bengaluru, 1 May, 2015 - 31 July, 2015

Visiting Researcher - Adobe Research Lab, Bengaluru, 1 May, 2014 - 31 July, 2014

Visiting Researcher - Mumbai Police, Mumbai, 1 Dec, 2013 - 31 Dec, 2013

Visiting Professor - Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil,
Feb 2011 - July 2013

Visiting Scientist - Ministry of Home A↵airs, Delhi, 1 July, 2013 - 31 July, 2013

Visiting Scientist - Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, Dec 2012 - Jan 2013

Visiting Researcher - Dublin City University, Dublin, June 2012

Research Associate - Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA, June 2009 - July 2009
Graduate Research Assistant - Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA, Sep 2004 - May 2009

Summer Intern - National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), May 2007 - Aug
2007. Advisors: Mr. Kiran Karnik, Mr. Shyamal Ghosh, and Mr. Nandkumar Saravade

Summer Intern - National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), May 2006 - Aug
2006. Advisors: Mr. Kiran Karnik, Late Mr. Sunil Mehta and Mr. Nandkumar Saravade

Research Scholar - Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Aug 2003 - Aug 2004. Advisors: Dr. Lorrie Cranor
and Dr. Raj Reddy

Research Scientist - Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC), International Institute of Information
Technology (IIIT) - Hyderabad, India, Jan 2003 - Aug 2004. Advisors: Dr. Rajeev Sangal and Dr. VasuDeva
Varma

Senior Knowledge Officer - SlashSupport, Inc. India, April 2000 - Dec 2002. Advisors: Dr. Sandip Deb and
Mr. Raghuraman

Design Engineer, Genus Overseas Electronics Private Ltd., India, Aug 1999 - March 2000. Advisor: Mr.
Tapan Kapoor

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi. Aug 2009 – Present.
• Big Data & Policing, IIIT Hyderabad, Spring 2019
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media (PSOSM) on NPTEL. Spring 2019.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, IIIT Hyderabad, Fall 2018
• Introduction to Human Computer Interaction on NPTEL. Spring 2018. Had 3000+ students registered
and about 250+ students got the final certifications. Course feedback was very good, students and
NPTEL team requested me to teach it again.
• Taught a full-credit course on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. Amrita University. Dec
2017. 15 students took the course. Had B.Tech., M.Tech., and Ph.D. students in the class.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media (PSOSM) on NPTEL (Coursera in India). Fall 2017. Had
10,208 students registered and about 500+ students got the final certifications. Course feedback was
very good, students and NPTEL team requested me to teach it again.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media (PSOSM) on NPTEL (Coursera in India). Fall 2016.
5200+ students registered for the course.
• Designing Human-Centered Systems, IIIT Delhi, Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016,
Spring 2017, Spring 2018
• Foundations of Computer Security, IIIT Delhi, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2014, Fall 2016, Fall 2017
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, IIIT Delhi, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2015
• Internet Security and Privacy, IIIT Delhi, Fall 2014 (Co-taught with Dr. Mohan Dhawan, IBM - IRL)
• Probability and Statistics, IIIT Delhi, Spring 2012, Spring 2013
• Advanced Research Methods, IIIT Delhi, Spring 2011
• Research Methods, IIIT Delhi, Spring 2010, Spring 2011
• Security in Emerging Technologies, IIIT-Delhi, Spring 2010
• Security and Privacy, IIIT-Delhi, Fall 2009

Visiting Faculty, Regularly give lectures in the Cybercrime and Online Social Media related courses at CBI
Academy, National Police Academy, North Eastern Police Academy, State police and Intelligence organisa-
tions, Army War College, and other Government of India organisations. 2013 – Present.

Trainer, July 2013 - Present

Develop and deliver a training program on Using Online Social Media for Policing, Intelligence, Law & Order
and Investigation. Conducted in various parts of the country, including IIIT Delhi, in di↵erent formats – 1
day, 2 days, 3 days, 4 days, and 5 days. Trained 8,500+ government officers.

Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, UFMG, Brazil. Full credit course. Feb 2011 – July
2013.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, Summer 2011
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, Summer 2012

Successfully completed the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence program, Documentation of Teaching
Development, Carnegie Mellon University, Spring 2006 - Spring 2008.

Teaching Assistant, School of Computer Science (SCS), CMU

• Mobile and Pervasive Computing Services, Spring 2008
• Web Commerce, Security and Privacy, Fall 2006

Teaching Co-ordinator and Mentor, Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT), IIIT - Hyderabad,
Jan 2004 - Aug 2004. Taught a mini semester course on Introduction to Privacy Technologies. Advised
Masters students.

Teaching faculty, IIIT - Hyderabad, Jan 2004 - Aug 2004. Taught a mini semester course on Introduction
to Privacy Technologies

Lecturer, Raja Rajeswari Engineering College, Chennai, India, Jan 1999 - Aug 1999

GRANT SUPPORT & FUNDING

• CISCO. Support for organising summer school on Cybersecurity and Data Analytics. Summer 2019.
INR 5,00,000
• Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Government of India. Targeted training
programme on “Security testing of network protocols and devices”. Summer 2019. INR 19,54,000
• DST UKIERI. An In-depth Analysis of Abuses in Social Media – Integrating Cues from Language,
Behavior and Networks. March 2018 - Feb 2020. Co-Principal-Investigator. INR 25,65,800
• ABB. Micro-service and Container approach in Control Systems: Challenges in Security. Dec 2017 -
Nov 2021. Co-Principal-Investigator. INR 14,68,000
• Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Government of India. Aug 2017 - July
2019. Principal Investigator. INR 34,01,200
• IBM India Research Lab. Open Science Collaborative Project. Adversarial Machine Learning. 2017 -
2018. Principal Investigator. INR 2,50,000
• Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India. Integrating
Open Source Intelligence from Traditional Sources and Online Social Networks for Intelligence Gath-
ering. 2016 – 2018. Principal Investigator. INR 1,68,70,000
• Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India. Information
Security & Education Awareness (ISEA). The total worth of the project is 96.08 Crore Rupees (approx.
14.7 million USD). Direct funding for IIITD is 1.48 Crore Rupees, Indirect funding is 10+ Crore Rupees.
IIITD is one among 40 other institutes from the country in the project. Project duration is for 5 years.
This is an institute wide project, spearheaded the proposal phase of the project in getting this project
to IIITD.
• Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Government of India. Sept 2015. INR
9,00,000
• EMC2 / RSA. Sept 2015. INR 9,60,000
• Ministry of Home A↵airs. June 2015. INR 6,36,000
• Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India. To organise the
3rd Security & Privacy Symposium. Jan 2015. INR 1,50,000
• Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Government of India. To organise the 3rd
Security & Privacy Symposium. Jan 2015. INR 1,00,000
• Pricewaterhouse (PcW). To organise Capture The Flag as part of the 3rd Security & Privacy Sympo-
sium. Jan 2015. INR 3,00,000
• Adobe. Faculty Excellence Research Award. 2014 - 2017. 15,00,000
• Intel. Creating Course content for Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. 2014 - 2015. INR
12,00,000
• Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India. Analyzing and
Measuring Trustworthiness of User-Generated Content and Users on Multiple Online Social Media to
Counter Cybercrime. 2013 – 2015. Principal Investigator. INR 75,00,000
• Virtual Centre of Excellence for Research in Violent Online Political Extremism. 2012 - 2017. 7th
Framework Programme for Research (FP7). PI: Dr. Maura Conway, Dublin City University. Co-PI:
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru along with 8 other universities around the world (2 in UK, 2 in Netherlands,
1 in the US, 2 in Denmark, 1 in Hungary). 5,980,704 Euros (INR 41,56,58,928)
• Hemant Bharat Ram Faculty Research Fellowship. To conduct research in the area of security and
privacy. 2012 – 2017. Instrumental in creating this Fellowship. Donor contribution INR 20,00,000 and
institute contribution INR 20,00,000
• NSF international supplement. Title: Online Privacy and Senior Citizens - A Socio-Technical Multi-
Perspective Framework for Trustworthy Operation, #0916612. U.S. PIs: H. Raghav Rao, Shambhu
Upadhyaya and Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, SUNY Bu↵alo. 2012 - 2013. INR 5,00,000
• Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India. Automated
Detection of Security and Privacy Threats in Peer-to-Peer networks. PI: Prof. Chittattaranjan Hota,
BITS Pilani Hyderabad. INR 61,95,000. Was an external advisor for the project. 2012 – 2015
• TCS Research Fellowship Program. With Anupama Aggarwal. 2012 – 2016. Ph.D. Thesis Advisor.
INR 16,70,000
• Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. Under Indo-Ireland Cooperative
Science Programme. An inter-disciplinary approach towards building ontology for online extremism.
2011 - 2013. PI. INR 8,36,000
• TCS Research Fellowship Program. With Niharika Sachdeva. 2012 – 2016. Ph.D. Thesis Advisor.
INR 16,70,000
• TCS Research Fellowship Program. With Paridhi Jain. 2010 – 2014. Ph.D. Thesis Advisor. INR
16,70,000
• Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India. Analyzing
Online Content Using Data Mining Techniques to Counter Cyber Crime. 2010 – 2013. PI. INR
81,00,000
• International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada and Privacy International, UK. Privacy
in India. 2010 – 2012. PI. INR 18,00,000
TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPED / DEPLOYED
• AASMA: Advanced Application for Social Media Analytics. Fully developed at IIITD. Requested by
more than 125+ state and federal government agencies and armed forces in India.
• Wombat Security Technologies acquired for USD 225 Million. My Ph.D. thesis was instrumental in
spinning o↵ Wombat in Pittsburgh during my graduate school life. Currently the company has 300+
full time employees http://www.wombatsecurity.com/ Wombat has raised multi million dollars (USD)
and the services are being used by government agencies in the US and other countries, and other in-
dustry organizations. On March 1, 2018 Wombat got acquired by Proofpoint NASDAQ: PFPT a large
California based security company. Press release https://www.proofpoint.com/us/newsroom/press-
releases/proofpoint-completes-acquisition-wombat-security PhishGuru: A System for Educating Users
about Semantic Attacks and Anti-Phishing Phil: A game that teaches people on how to identify ma-
licious links and URLs. Both PhishGuru and Phil are part of technologies that are sold by Wombat
Security Technologies. My Ph.D. thesis was instrumental in spinning o↵ this company in Pittsburgh.
Currently the company has many full time employees other than founding faculty and then students
like me. http://www.wombatsecurity.com/ Wombat has raised multi million dollars (USD) and the
services are being used by government agencies in the US, and other industry organizations. Wom-
bat raised series B funding for USD 6.7 million. Wombat received multiple awards, a few: Global
Excellence Award for Security Training and Educational Programs; Top Tech Company to Watch in
Pittsburgh; Gold Winner of Information Security Product’s Guide “Tomorrow’s Technology Today”;
Bronze Winner of Information Security Product’s Guide “New Product Award”. Other industry orga-
nizations both in India and abroad have used the techniques and approaches developed in PhishGuru
and Phil to develop their products, e.g. PhishMe, Cognix.
• Saftie / KillFie: I am super thrilled with the way our work on Selfie Deaths has caught the imagination
of public. Roughly there are at least 1 new media article per week published / referred the KillFie
research from Spring 2017. Every death that happens because of Selfies, has some reference to our
work. We have currently developed multiple solutions to address the KillFies, Saftie Facebook Chatbot
https://www.facebook.com/saftiebot Saftie Android Application https://play.google.com/store/apps/
details?id=com.something.vedant.crowdsourcing There was even a lot of interest on a TED talk around
this topic; gave a TED talk on “Saving Lives: How Many Likes Is Your Life Worth?” capturing our
research on KillFies. Talk available at https://youtu.be/VTMSNOX2JlA A few of the media articles
are presented below, for a comprehensive list please search for “selfie deaths” in google. I have also been
on TV, Radio both nationally and internationally multiple times discussing this topic. Using the Saftie
app, we have marked 1000+ location as verified dangerous around the world; each location is verified
if more than 3 users mark it as dangerous. We also built a Saftie Camera App http://bit.ly/saftie-cam
for users to be nudged when trying to take a dangerous selfies.

– https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/lifestyle/selfies-can-be-deadly-and-india-
leads-the-way/articleshow/62964327.cms
– https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/11/14/563255936/india-declares-war-on-unsafe-
selfies
– https://factordaily.com/longform/selfie-death-in-india/
Shri. Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport & Highways talks about being careful while taking
Selfies in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZdP-G-F0a8 Video has 150+ Million views
(video was uploaded on June 23, 2017) and the video references work by IIIT Delhi at the bottom
right of the video ”Source: Researchers at Precog@IIIT Delhi”. Was invited for a 1 hour program
on Good Evening India on our national channel Doordarshan to talk about our KillFie Research.
Hasan Minhaj’s show on Immigration Enforcement on Patriot Act, Netflix showcased our research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1g3P3g Css Video has close to a million views.
• Keeping the theme of Saving Lives, we have been working on Blue Whale issue also. We have built a
browser plugin that deducts if users are trying to request for playing the game or playing the role of
curator. This project had multiple media attention, including
 http://indianexpress.com/article/india/bengaluru-project-aims-at-flagging-potential-curators-victims-of-
blue-whale-challenge-5051066/
• MIME: Memes have become a predominant means of expression in the internet culture- they are not
only used as a means of entertainment but as an important tool for advertising, spreading propaganda
and even political ideologies. However, the creation of memes is limited to a niche community of content
creators who are skilled in photo/video editing software. MIME is a platform which empowers people
who lack these skills to become a part of the meme conversation. We built a one-stop solution for all
meme needs - a maker space where people can create memes, a personalized meme feed, and a space to
connect with other meme enthusiasts. Further, we hypothesize that a person?s meme interests can be
an intrinsic indicator of social preferences and can form the basis of strong interpersonal connections.
We aim to create a strong community by enabling users to form connections based on similar meme
interests. http://bit.ly/meme-mime
• WhatsFarzi: WhatsApp is the most popular personal messaging service in India, with more than
200 million users, the highest in the world . One of the biggest side e↵ects of WhatsApp?s deep
penetration, in societies across the world, especially developing countries, is its misuse as a medium
to disseminate misinformation. 70+ incidents have led to deaths of 30+ people across India recently
because people fell for misinformation they received on WhatsApp. Our goal is tackle this spread of
false content on WhatsApp. We have collected data from crowdsourced message reports and public
groups. WhatsFarzi will provide you with instant results regarding the authenticity of text/images you
receive on WhatsApp. http://bit.ly/whatsfarzi
• Awaaz: My Voice: An application built on the Freebasics platform which helps in getting citizens to
mark their complaints to be raised to the Government. Currently deployed in Africa. Awaaz receives
320+ active users accessing the service everyday.
• Bugle News: We built an RSS aggregator service called Bugle News that fetches RSS feeds from news
organizations including BBC, CNN, and Reuters, and provides users with corresponding headlines. We
built this system on the Freebasics platform. The news stories are organized by topic and country. Users
using Bugle News would see these news snippets aggregated from di↵erent sources, categorized into
eight high level topics (World News, Africa, Asia, America, Science, Sports, Movies&Entertainment
and Jobs&Career). There were additional lower level topics for nine countries: South Africa, Zambia
and Nigeria within Africa; Philippines, Bangladesh and Pakistan within Asia; and Colombia, Peru and
Mexico within America; and two specific sports: Cricket and Football within Sports. The service was
o↵ered in English between September 17th and December 15, 2016 and has been available in English,
French and Spanish since December 16, 2016. In total, we have had 100,000+ unique visitors to Bugle
News until 31st March 2017. On average, we get 1,400 hits on the Bugle news everyday.
• Facebook Inspector (FbI), a REST API based browser plug-in for identifying malicious Facebook posts
in real time. From the release date, Aug 2015, FbI is downloaded over 2,500 times. FbI received close
to 3 million requests (both public and private posts), and out of these FbI evaluated 1+ Million
unique public posts. We hit a record 182 daily active users on June 8, 2016. Plugin is available at
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fbi-facebook-inspector/
• Facebook Profile Analyser. A tool that analyses a Facebook profile to give some interesting analysis
like: the di↵erent posts done by the profile (status updates, pictures, links, etc.); top 9 profiles that has
liked the most number of time of the input profile; yearly / monthly / weekly / daily activities; topics
and location from the place where the profiles have posted. We have 630+ public profiles that have
been analysed through the system. The system is publicly available at precog.iiitd.edu.in/fbanalysis
• A shoot out of my Ph.D. work called APWG Education Landing page http://phish-education.apwg.org/r
is serving 14 million hits per year and it is translated into 21 languages. Updated as of Summer 2015.
• TweetCred, A Chrome browser plugin to analyse credibility on Twitter.
http://twitdigest.iiitd.edu.in/TweetCred/ As of Sept 2014, 1500+ Active users and analyzed 12+ mil-
lion tweets. Updated as of Summer 2015.
 • PhishAri, a Chrome browser plugin to analyze a given URL in a tweet as phishing or legitimate.
http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/cyber-crime.html#phishari Analysed 350,000 URLs in real world. Work
around this has produced 2 best paper awards. Updated as of Summer 2015.
• Backpack. A Learning Management System. The idea is a fall out from the course Designing Human
Centered Systems (4 credits, taught in Fall 2012). We have registered a company Backpack Labs
around this technology. Web application went online on Aug 1, 2013, total number of courses o↵ered
until now are 275 with 4,697 unique users (as on April 2015) in the system. The Android application
went online on Dec 1, 2013 with 476 downloads until now. We have 150 active users per day on
the Android App. System is 25,000+ LOC and has received over 1000+ feedback mails since launch.
Backpack is being used at IIIT-Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, IIT
Madras, IISc Bangalore and many other institutes across India. Updated as of Summer 2015.
• Wizters wizters.com A anonymous social networking service. We have a total of 4,500 users. 13,000
posts and photos have been shared. In last 4 months we acquired more than 2,100 users. Interactions
served are around 32,000 and total logins are around 21,000. Technology has already been transferred
(made real money) to a company in Delhi and they are looking at building a startup around it in the
US. Wizters selected as one of the “Top150 Startup” in the Pioneers Challenge http://pioneers.io/
Updated as of Summer 2015.
• MeriAwaaz http://meriawaazapp.com/ An App to help get the voice of citizens to the Government.
900+ downloads with 1.6 lakhs engagements until April 2015 and approx 20 posts per day on the
Dashboard. Already made real money from sales, many deals done with pending deployment. It is
currently being used by political parties in Delhi. Updated as of Summer 2015.
• Analytics platform for National Bomb Data Centre / National Security Guard (NSG), Delhi. It was
absolutely thrilling to get access to last 15 - 20 years of Bomb attacks around the world, and more
detailed data about Bombs attacks in India. We developed a platform from scratch and the tool is
currently deployed in their Centre in Manesar near Delhi. The tool allows the officer to feed the
data as inputs and do analytics on various dimensions. I had shown the demo of the entire system
to the Director General of NSG and the entire team of NBDC, DG was pleased with the tool and
its capabilities, he sent me an official appreciation letter for deploying and providing training to the
officers. We have done multiple iterations of feedback and bug fixes in the tool.
• Ingage. ingagelive.com Deployed in two organizations where they have paid us for the product and
service. One is a Retail Store, and the other one is in Hospitality industry. Updated as of Summer
2015.
• Fair Fare. A system to find the Fare and directions through Autorickshaws, Bus, and Metro in Delhi.
Available in both Android and Windows. There are 340 Android users, and 47 of them have rated the
app with an average of 4.38 on 5 scale. Updated as of Summer 2015.
• OCEAN. Open-source Collation of eGovernment data And Networks. A system where you can search
for any citizens in Delhi and the system will return information like Drivers License number, PAN card
details, etc. We have used all the publicly available information for doing this analysis. 1,000+ users
have used the system. Updated as of Summer 2015.
• Tour De Delhi App helps in getting information about tourist spots in Delhi. The App was built as
part of CSE 501: Designing Human Centered Systems course in Spring 2014.

PATENTS / FILED
• Payal Bajaj, Mridul Kavidayal, Priyanshu Srivastava, Md Nadeem Akhtar, and Shriram Revankar. A
method for Auditing and Augmenting User-generated Tags for Digital Content. P5680. United States
Patent Office, filed in 2015 (Patent pending).
• Balaji Srinivasan, Shriraj Bhardwaj, Akash Verma, and Priyanja Singh. Monitoring Social Media for
Breach of Organizational Privacy. P5690. United States Patent Office, filed in 2015 (Patent pending).
 • Rishiraj Saha Roy, Guna Prasaad Jeganathan, Aishwarya Padmakumar, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru.
Automated Linguistic Personalization of Ad Messages for Targeted Campaigns. Patent application
number P4592-US, United States Patent Office, filed in 2014 (Patent pending).
• Kokil Jaidka, Niyati Chhaya, Prakhar Gupta, Sajal Rustagi, Kaushik Ramachandran, Ponnurangam
Kumaraguru. Tracking Changes in User-Generated Textual Content on Social Media Computing
Platforms. Patent application number P5160-US, United States Patent Office, filed in 2014 (Patent
pending).
• Niyati Chhaya, Deepak Pai, Dhwanit Agarwal, Nikaash Puri, Paridhi Jain, and Ponurangam Ku-
maraguru. Automatic Aggregation of Online User Profiles. Patent application number P4606US01.
United States Patent Office, filed in 2014 (Patent pending).

INTERNATIONAL / INDUSTRY COLLABORATIONS (Current / Past)

• MIT, USA. Collaborator: Dr. Kiran Garimella. Fall 2018 - Present.
• IBM Research Labs, Delhi, India. Collaborator: Dr. Sameep Mehta. Summer 2016 - Present.
• Info Edge Limited, Delhi, India. Collaborator: Nitendra Rajput. Summer 2017 - Present.
• Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Saarbrucken, Germany. Collaborator: Dr. Krishna Gum-
madi. Summer 2016 - Fall 2018.
• ETH Zurich. Collaborator: Dr. David Garcia. Summer 2016 - Spring 2018.
• GaTech, Atlanta / USA. Collaborator: Prof. Mustaque Ahamad, April 2014 - Present & Prof. Munmun
De Choudhury, Fall 2015 - Spring 2018.
• Adobe Research Labs, Bengaluru, India. Collaborator: Dr. Niyati Chhaya. Summer 2014 - Spring
2018.
• Ebiquity research group at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), USA. Collaborator:
Prof. Anupam Joshi. Jan 2012 - Present.
• Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of University of South California (USC), USA. Collaborators: Prof.
Kristina Lerman and Prof. Emilio Ferrara. Jan 2011 - Fall 2016.
• Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Security and Privacy (CRISSP) at NewYork University Abu
Dhabi. Collaborators: Prof. Nasir Memon, Prof. Mustaque Ahamad, Dr. Payas Gupta. April 2014 -
Fall 2016.
• Qatar Computing Research Institue (QCRI), Qatar. Collaborators: Dr. Carlos Castillo and Dr.
Patrick Meier. Spring 2014 - Fall 2015.
• SPIES (Security and Privacy in Emerging Computing and networking Systems) research group at
University of Alabama, USA. Jan 2012 - May 2014.
• Department of Computer Science (DCC), Federal University of. Minas Gerais (UFMG),Brazil. Col-
laborators: Prof. Virgilio Almeida, Prof. Fabricio Benevenuto, and Prof. Wagner Meira. June 2011 -
Jan 2014.
• School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Ireland. Collaborator: Prof. Maura Conway.
Jan 2012 - Fall 2014.
• School of Law and Government, Limerick University, Ireland. Collaborator: Prof. Lisa McInerney.
Jan 2012 - July 2013.
• Computer Science Department (DECOM) of Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP), Brazil. Col-
laborator: Prof. Fabricio Benevenuto. Aug 2010 - Dec 2011.
• Institute of Information Security, ETH Zurich. Collaborator: Prof. Srdjan Capkun. Nov 2009 - July
2011.
ACADEMIC ADVISING
• Graduated Ph.D. students (Information only on what they did just after graduation)
– Srishti Gupta (2013 - May 2019). Title: Identifying and Mitigating Cross-Platform PhoneNumber
Abuse on Social Channels. Data Scientist at American Express, Delhi.
– Prateek Dewan (2012 - 2017). Title: Techniques for Automating Quality Assessment of Context-
specific Content on Social Media Services. Data Scientist at Apple, Bengaluru.
– Niharika Sachdeva. Social Media and Policing: Computational Approaches to Enhancing Collab-
orative Action between Residents and Law Enforcement. 2011 - 2017. Senior Scientist at Philips
Research, Bengaluru.
– Paridhi Jain. Automated Methods for Identity Resolution across Online Social Networks. 2010 –
2016. Data Scientist at Xerox Research Centre India (XRCI), Bengaluru.
– Aditi Gupta. Designing and Evaluating Techniques to Mitigate Misinformation Spread on Mi-
croblogging Web Services. 2010 – 2015. University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC),
USA.
• Current Ph.D. students
– Hitkul (Fall 2018 - Present), Co-advised with Prof. Rajiv Ratn Shah, IIIT Delhi
– Saurabh Gupta (Fall 2018 - Present), Co-advised with Prof. Arun Balaji Buduru, IIIT Delhi.
ABB Ph.D. Fellow.
– Tulasi Venkata Chyavan Avinash (Fall 2018 0 - Present), Co-advised with Prof. Arun Balaji
Buduru, IIIT Delhi
– Nidhi Goyal (Fall 2018 - Present), Co-advised with Dr. Niharika Sachdeva, InfoEdge Ltd. Nidhi
is a recipient of Prime Minister Ph.D. Fellowship.
– Neha Kumari (Spring 2018 - Present), Co-advised with Prof. Arun Balaji Buduru, IIIT Delhi
– Rishabh Kaushal (2015 - Present)
– Anupama Aggarwal (2012 - Present)
– External Ph.D. students, all of them co-advised with local faculty at respective institutes
1. Prashant Kodali (Spring 2019 - Present), Co-advised with Prof. Manish Shrivastava, IIIT
Hyderabad
2. Anuradha Gupta, JIIT, Delhi. Alumni of IIITD, Pioneer batch / M.Tech. Class of 2012
3. Sawinder Kaur, Thapar University, Punjab
4. Nishtha Phutela, BML Munjal, Delhi. Alumni of IIITD, M.Tech. Class of 2015
• Graduated M.Tech. students (Thesis advisor) (Information only on what they do just after graduation)
– Vaibhav Garg. Detecting Fake Profiles on Online Matrimony. June 2019.
– Vani Agarwal. Content Moderation Across Multiple Platforms with Capsule Networks and Co-
Training. June 2019. Endurance International, Directi Web Technology Group. Co-advised with
Prof. Arun Balaji Buduru, IIIT Delhi.
– Gurpriya Bhatia. WorkerRep: Building Trust on Crowdsourcing Platform Using Blockchain.
Defended in July 2018. TCS Innovations Lab. Co-advised with Dr. Alpana Dubey, Accenture
Labs, Bengaluru.
– Simran Saxena. Confidentiality Protection in Crowdsourcing. Defended in April 2018.
– Indira Sen. Detecting Inorganic Engagement on Instagram. Defended in Dec 2017. Pursuing
Ph.D. at GESIS, Klon / Germany.
– Srishti Chandok, 2017, Nucleus Software
– Mayank Verma, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT), 2017. Co-Advised with Anu-
radha Gupta, JIIT
 – Sonal Goel, IIITD, 2014. Research Associate, IIITD
– Pradyumn Nand, IIITD, 2014. MakeMyTrip, Delhi
– Abhishek Bhola, IIITD, 2014, Currently at Hikari Tsushin Inc., Japan
– Sudip Mittal, IIITD, Dual degree, Ph.D. student at University of Maryland Baltimore County
(UMBC), USA
– Neha Gupta, IIITD, 2014, EMC2
– Prachi Jain, IIITD, 2013, Ph.D. student at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD)
– Srishti Gupta, IIITD, 2013, Ph.D. student at IIITD
– Sandhya Krishnan, UMBC, 2013, Walmart Labs, USA
– Tatiana Pontes Soares Rocha, UFMG, 2013
– Anupama Aggrawal, IIITD, 2012, Ph.D. student at IIITD
– Tiago Rodrigues de Magalhes, UFMG, 2012, SambaTech, Brazil
– Komal Sachdeva, IIITD, 2012, Microsoft India
• Current M.Tech. / Masters students
– Neha Goyal (IIITD), June 2019 - Present
– Indraneil Arun Paul (IIITH), July 2018 - Present
– Shreya Jain (IIITH), July 2018 - Present
– Arpita Chandra (IIITH), July 2018 - Present
– Devansh Manu (IIITH), June 2019 - Present. Co-Advised with Prof. Radhika, IIITH
– Mohit Chandra (IIITH), June 2019 - Present. Co-Advised with Prof. Manish Shrivastava, IIITH
• Current Full-time Research Associates
– Shwetanshu Singh, Jan 2018 - Present
– Shubham Singh, Jan 2018 - Present
– Gurpreet Bhatia, April 2018 - Present
– Shubham Singh, April 2018 - Present
• Past Research Associates
– Aprit Merchant, Jan 2018 - Dec 2018. Pursuing Ph.D. in CS at Alto University, Finland
– Dhruv Kuchhal, May 2018 - May 2019. Pursuing Ph.D. in CS at Georgia Tech, USA
– Sarthak Ahuja, May 2017 - July 2017. Pursuing MS in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
– Sonu Gupta, May 2017 - Dec 2018
– Sonal Goel, July 2016 - July 2017. Data Scientist at Delhivery
– Neha Jawalkar, April 2016 - Dec 2016.
– Divyansh Agarwal, April 2016 - April 2018. Pursuing MS in Data Science at Carnegie Mellon
University
– Kushagra Bhargava, April 2016 - May 2018. Pursuing MS in CS at University of Southern
California
– Saravana Kumar, Dec 2016 - May 2017. Pursuing MS in CS at Ohio State University.
– Yatharth Sharma, April 2015 - Aug 2016. Completed Masters in CS at Arizona State University
in 2018. Now at Oracle, USA.
– Gandeevan R, September 2015 - April 2016. Completed Masters in CS at Carnegie Mellon Uni-
versity in 2018. Now at Niantic Inc.
– Dushyant Dhyani, July 2015 - Dec 2015
 – Archit Srivastava, May 2016 - July 2016. Completed Masters in CS at University of Southern
California in 2018. Now at Facebook Inc USA.
– Nilaksh Das, June 2014 - July 2015. Completed Masters in CS at Georgia Tech in 2017 and
pursuing Ph.D. in CS at Georgia Tech.
– Mayank Gupta, July 2013 - July 2014 Completed Masters in CS at Georgia Tech, now works for
Apple Inc, Cupertino, USA.
• Graduated UG students (Thesis advisor) (Information only on what they do just after graduation)
– Vedant Nanda, IIITD, 2019, Ph.D. in CS at University of Maryland & MPI-SWS
– Abhinav Khattar, IIITD, 2019, MS. in CS at Carnegie Mellon University
– Parimi Viraj, IIITD, 2019, MS at Carnegie Mellon University
– Dattatreya Mohapatra, IIITD, 2019
– Shiven Mian, IIITD, 2019, MS in CS at University of California Davis
– Shrey Bagroy, IIITD, 2018, MS in CS at Carnegie Mellon University
– Varun Bansal, IIITD, 2018, Myntra Designs Private Limited
– Kushagra Singh, IIITD, 2018, Myntra Jabong
– Lohitaksh Parmar, IIITD, 2018, AirTel X Labs
– Mansi Goel, IIITD, 2018, MS in CS at University of Maryland
– Nalin Gupta, IIITD, 2018, MS in CS at North Eastern University
– Sahar Siddiqui, IIITD, 2018, MS in CS at NewYork University
– Siddharth Singh, IIITD, 2018, Microsoft India, Hyderabad
– Anshuman Suri, IIITD, 2018, Microsoft India, Hyderabad
– Karan Grover, IIITD, 2017
– Tushar Gupta, IIITD, 2017
– Ayush Shah, IIITD, 2017, IBM-IRL
– Bhavna Nagpal, IIITD, 2017, Pursuing Masters in Design at IIT Guwahati
– Juhi Bhatnagar, IIITD, 2017, Pursuing Masters in CS at Rice University
– Mayank Vachher, IIITD, 2017, Pursuing Masters in CS at Simon Fraser University
– Aditi Mithal, IIITD, 2017, Pursuing Masters in CS at UCLA
– Amod Kant Agrawal, IIITD, 2017, Pursuing Masters in CS at UIUC
– Megha Arora, IIITD, 2016. Pursuing Master in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
– Manan Gakhar, IIITD, 2016
– Shashank Gautam, IIITD, 2016. KPMG Delhi.
– Danish Goel, IIITD, 2016
– Shrey Gupta, IIITD, 2016
– Ananya Harsh Jha, IIITD, 2016
– Rohan Katyal, IIITD, 2016. Pursuing Master in Human Computer Interaction at GeorgiaTech
– Mansi Panwar, IIITD, 2016
– Srishty Saha, IIITD, 2016. Pursuing Master in Computer Science at UMBC, USA
– Jayasi Mehar, IIITD, 2015, UrbanClap, starting Summer 2015
– Apoorv Singh, IIITD, 2015, Myntra, Bengaluru starting Summer 2015
– Nilaksh Das, Delhi Technical University, 2014, Currently pursing Masters in Computer Science
at Georgia Tech, USA
 – Raghav Anand, IIITD, 2014, Pursuing Masters in HCI in Carnegie Mellon University
– Sampoorna Biswas, IIITD, 2014, Pursuing Masters in CS at University of British Columbia,
Canada
– Karan Gupta, IIITD, 2014, Pursuing Masters in CS / HCI at University of Washington
– Apoorv Narang, IIITD, 2014. Co-Founded Backpack – Pursuing Masters in HCI in Carnegie
Mellon University starting Fall 2015
– Apoorv Saini, IIITD, 2014. Employed at Hikari Tsushin Inc. – Workomg full time on Wizters as
a startup starting Summer 2015
– Aditya Kumar Nayak. IIITD, 2014. Co-Founded Ingage & Meri-Awaaz
– Akshit Chhabra, Delhi Technical University, 2013. Employed at Housing.com
– Kanika Goyal, Delhi Technical University, 2013, Employed at Microsoft India
– Mayank Gupta, Delhi Technical University, 2013. Research Associate at IIIT Delhi – Pursing
Masters in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, USA starting Fall 2014. Working at Apple Inc. as
of Fall 2016.
– Mayank Pundir, IIITD, 2013, Completed Masters in Computer Science at University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA. Joined Facebook, Hacker Way in Fall 2015
– Raghav Sethi, IIITD, 2013, Completed Masters in Computer Science at Princeton University,
USA. Joined Facebook, Hacker Way in Fall 2015
– Soumya Vardhan Singh, IIITD, 2014. Employed at Adobe India
– Vani Sivasankar, IIITD, 2013. Employed at Adobe India
– Ashwin Rajadesingan, VIT University, 2012. Finished Masters in CS at Arizona State University,
USA and employed at Doximity, California.
– Kanika Narang, IIITD, 2012, Currently pursuing Ph.D. in CS at University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign (UIUC), USA
– Hemank Lamba, IIITD, 2012, Currently pursing Ph.D. in CS at Carnegie Mellon University
– Sidhartha Chhabra, Delhi Technical University, 2011, Currently pursuing Ph.D. in CS at Michigan
State University
– Dipesh Kumar Singh, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT), Sikkim, Employed at TCS,
India
– Sunil Kumar Ghai, Delhi Technical University, 2010. Employed at IBM Research Labs, India,
2010 to 2015 – Doing a startup in Bengaluru starting 2015
• Current UG students (Thesis advisor)
– Snehal Gupta, IIITD, 2018
– Suryatej Reddy Vyalla, IIITD, 2018
– Sanchit Saini, IIITH, 2019
– Anant Agarwal, IIITH, 2019
– Omkar Gurjar, IIITH, 2019
– Tanuj Garg, IIITH, 2019
– Arnav Kapoor, IIITH, 2019
ENTREPRENEURSHIP EXPEREINCE
Saarthi, iSPIRT. http://www.ispirt.in/ Oct 2014 - Fall 2015 .

Inventor, Wombat Security Technologies, Pittsburgh, USA. wombatsecurity.com

Co-Founder and Advisor, Backpack Labs Limited, India. backpacklabs.in

Co-Founder and Advisor, Wizters, India. wizters.com

Co-Founder and Advisor, MeriAwaaz, India. http://meriawaaz.com/

Co-Founder, Innovate Delhi Entrepreneurship Academy, India. innovatedelhi.com

Advisor, Ingage, India. ingagelive.com

Faculty Advisor, Find A Way, India. findaway.in

CONSULTING
• Advisor, Inne↵u, Delhi, Jan 2018 - Present
• Advisor, Bosch India, Bengaluru, Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
• Data Security Council of India, Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
• PwC, Delhi, India, Dec 2014 - March 2015
• MixOrg, Technical Advisor, Delhi, India, Jan 2014 - Jan 2015
• Innefu Labs Pvt.Ltd., Delhi, India, Feb 2011 - Sept 2011
• IBM, India Research Lab (IRL), Delhi, India, Feb 2010 - July 2010

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters

• Dewan, P., Bagroy, S., and Kumaraguru, P. Hiding in Plain Sight: The Anatomy of Malicious Pages
on Facebook. Lecture Notes in Social Networks. Springer, 2017.
• Gupta, A., Kumaraguru, P. Misinformation on Twitter during Crisis Events. Encyclopedia of Social
Network Analysis and Mining (ESNAM). Springer publications. 2012.

Journal

• Pattisapu, N., Gupta, M., Kumaraguru, P., Varma, V. A Distant Supervision Based Approach to
Medical Persona Classification. Accepted at Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2019.
• Goel, M., Agrawal, A., Garcia, D. and Kumaraguru, P. Collective Aspects of Privacy in the Twitter
Social Network. At The European Physical Journal Data Science 2018.
• Halevi, T., Memon, N., Lewis, J., Kumaraguru, P., Arora, S., Dagar, N., Aloul, F., and Chen, J.
Cultural and Psychological Factors in Cyber-Security. Journal of Mobile Multimedia, Vol. 13, Nov. 1
& 2 (2017) 043 - 056.
• Dewan, P., Kumaraguru, P. Facebook Inspector (FbI): Towards Automatic Real Time Detection of
Malicious Content on Facebook. At Journal of Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), 2017.
Volume 7, Issue 1.
• Mohamed, M., Gao, S., Sachdeva, N., Saxena, S., Zhang, C., Kumaraguru, P.., and van Oorschot,
J. On the Security and Usability of Dynamic Cognitive Game CAPTCHAs. Accepted in Journal of
Computer Security (JCS), 2017.
• Jain, P., Kumaraguru, P., and Joshi, A. Other Times, Other Values: Leveraging Attribute History
to Link User Profiles across Online Social Networks. Journal of Social Network Analysis and Mining
(SNAM), 2016.
• Kumaraguru, P., Sheng, S., Acquisti, A., Cranor, L., and Hong, J. Teaching Johnny Not to Fall for
Phish. In Association for Computing Machinery’s Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT). 2010.
• Karat, J., Bertino, E., Li, N., Ni, Q., Brodie, C., Lobo, J., Calo, S. B., Cranor, L. F., Kumaraguru,
P., and Reeder, R. W. A Policy Framework for Security and Privacy Management. IBM Journal of
Research and Development, Harmonizing Security and Privacy, Volume 53, Number 2, 2009.

Conferences and Workshops

• Gupta, S., Srivatsav, D., Subramanyam, A V. and Kumaraguru, P. Attentional Road Safety Net-
works. Accepted at 26th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Taipei, Septem-
ber 22-25, 2019.
• Merchant, A., Shah, D., Bhatia, G., Ghosh, A., and Kumaraguru, P. Signals Matter: Understanding
Popularity and Impact of Users on Stack Overflow. Accepted at The Web Conference (formerly known
as WWW), San Francisco, May 13-17, 2019.
• Shah, D., Kumaran, A., Sen, R., and Kumaraguru, P. Travel time estimation accuracy in developing
regions: An empirical case study with Uber data in Delhi-NCR. Accepted at AW4CITY 2019: 5th
International Smart City Workshop, The Web Conference, San Francisco, May 13, 2019.
• Paul, I., Khattar, A., Chopra, S., Kumaraguru, P., and Gupta, M. What Sets Verified Users Apart?
Insights, Analysis and Prediction of Verified Users on Twitter. Accepted at 11th ACM Conference on
Web Science.
• Chopra, S., Khattar, A., Dabas, K., Gupta, K., and Kumaraguru, P. Evils of Social Media: Case
Study of the Blue Whale Challenge. Accepted at CHI4EVIL workshop at CHI 2019. May 4-9, 2019.
• Suri, A., Vijaykeerthy, D., Mehta, S., and Kumaraguru, P. Hardening Deep Neural Networks via
Adversarial Model Cascades. Accepted at International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN
2019). July 14 - 19, 2019.
• Singh, S., Kaushal, R., Buduru, A., and Kumaraguru, P. KidsGuard: A fine-Grained approach for
child UnsAfe video Representation and Detection. Accepted at 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On
Applied Computing,. April 8 - 12, 2019.
• Gupta, S., Kumaraguru, P., and Chakraborty, T. MalReG: Detecting and Analyzing Malicious
Retweeter Groups. Accepted at ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science and Man-
agement of Data (CoDS-COMAD 2019). Kolkata, Jan 3 - 5, 2019.
• Kumar, Y., Aggarwal, S., Mahata, D., Shah, R., Kumaraguru, P., and Zimmermann, R. Get IT
Scored using AutoSAS - An Automated System for Scoring Short Answers. Accepted at The Eighth
Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence 2018 (EAAI-18). Feb 2 - 7, 2019.
• Kapoor, R., Kumar, Y., Rajput, K., Shah, R., Kumaraguru, P., and Zimmermann, R. Mind Your
Language: Abuse and O↵ense Detection for Code-Switched Languages. Accepted at 32nd AAAI
Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Feb 2 - 7, 2019.
• Gupta, S., Sachdeva, S., Dewan, P., and Kumaraguru, P. CbI: Improving Credibility of User-
Generated Content on Facebook. Accepted at Sixth International Conference on Big Data Analytics
2018 (BDA 2018). December 18 - 21, 2018.
• Verma, A., Wadhwa, A., Singh, N., Beniwal, S., Kaushal, R. and Kumaraguru, P. Followee Manage-
ment: Helping users follow the right users on Online Social Media. Accepted at International Work-
shop on Social Human Behavior Analysis through Online Social Media (co-located with ASONAM),
Barcelona, Spain, 31 August, 2018.
• Choudhary, H., Pathak, A., Shah, R. and Kumaraguru, P. Neural Machine Translation for English-
Tamil. Accepted at Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Brussels, Belgium, October
31?November 4, 2018.
• Gupta, D., Sen, I., Sachdeva, N., Kumaraguru, P. and Buduru, A. Empowering First Responders
through Automated Multimodal Content Moderation. Accepted at The Second IEEE International
Congress on Cognitive Computing, San Francisco, 2-7 July, 2018. Paper Best Paper Award.
• Singh, K., Sen, I. and Kumaraguru, P. Language Identification and Named Entity Recognition in
Hinglish Code Mixed Tweets. Accepted in the ACL Student Research Workshop 2018.
• Singh, K., Sen, I. and Kumaraguru, P. A Twitter Corpus for Hindi English Code Mixed Dataset
for POS Tagging. Accepted in the Sixth International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for
Social Media (SocialNLP 2018).
• Sen, I., Aggarwal, A., Mian, S., Singh, S., Kumaraguru, P. and Datta, A. Worth its Weight in Likes:
Towards Detecting Fake Likes on Instagram. Accepetd as a short paper in the 10th ACM Conference
on Web Science, Amsterdam, 27-30 May 2018.
• Gupta, S., Kuchhal, D., Gupta, P., Ahamad, M., Gupta, M. and Kumaraguru, P. ”Under the
Shadow of Sunshine: Characterizing Spam Campaigns Abusing Phone Numbers Across Online Social
Networks. Accepted in the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, Amsterdam, 27-30 May 2018.
• Nanda, V., Lamba, H., Agarwal, D., Arora, M., Sachdeva, N., and Kumaraguru, P. Stop the Killfies!
Using Deep Learning to Identify Dangerous Selfies. Accepted at the 9th International Workshop on
Modeling Social Media (MSM’2018) Applying Machine Learning and AI for Modeling Social Media.
• Gupta, S., Khattar, A., Gogia, A., Kumaraguru, P. and Chakraborty, T. Collective Classification of
Spam Campaigners on Twitter: A Hierarchical Meta-Path Based Approach. At The Web Conf 2018
(Formerly WWW Conference).
• Goel, S., Ahuja, S., Subramanyam, A., Kumaraguru, P. #VisualHashtags: Visual Summarization
of Social Media Events Using Mid-Level Visual Elements. At 25th ACM Conference on MultiMedia
2017.
• Aggarwal, A., Viswanath, B., Zhang, L., Kumar, S., Shah, A. and Kumaraguru, P. I Spy with My
Little Eye: Analysis and Detection of Spying Browser Extensions. At IEEE European Symposium on
Security and Privacy.
• Sen, I., Aggarwal, A., Mian, S., Singh, S., Kumaraguru, P. and Datta, A. Worth its Weight in Likes:
Towards Detecting Fake Likes on Instagram. At 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, Amsterdam,
27-30 May 2018.
• Gupta, S., Kuchhal, D., Gupta, P., Ahamad, M., Gupta, M. and Kumaraguru, P. ”Under the
Shadow of Sunshine: Characterizing Spam Campaigns Abusing Phone Numbers Across Online Social
Networks. At 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, Amsterdam, 27-30 May 2018.
• Nanda, V., Lamba, H., Agarwal, D., Arora, M., Sachdeva, N., and Kumaraguru, P. Stop the Killfies!
Using Deep Learning to Identify Dangerous Selfies. At 9th International Workshop on Modeling Social
Media (MSM’2018) Applying Machine Learning and AI for Modeling Social Media.
• Aggarwal, A., Kumar, S., Bhargava, K., and Kumaraguru, P. The Follower Count Fallacy: Detecting
Twitter Users with Manipulated Follower Count. At 33rd ACM / SIGAPP Symposium on Applied
Computing, April 9 - 13, 2018.
• Singh, S., Nanda, V., Sen, R., Sengupta, S., Kumaraguru, P., and Gummadi, K. Leveraging Face-
book?s Free Basics Engine forWeb Service Deployment in Developing Regions. At International Con-
ference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) 2017, November
16?19, 2017, Lahore, Pakistan.
• Kaushal, R., Chandok, S., Jain, P., Dewan, P., Gupta, N., Kumaraguru, P. Nudging Nemo: Helping
Users Control Linkability across Social Networks. At 9th International Conference on Social Informat-
ics, 2017.
• Reganti, A.N., Maheshwari, T., Das A., Chakraborthy, T., Kumaraguru, P. Understanding Psycho-
Sociological Vulnerability of ISIS Patronizers in Twitter. At IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2017).
• Dewan, P., Suri, A., Bharadhwaj, V., Mithal, A., Kumaraguru, P. Towards Understanding Crisis
Events On Online Social Networks Through Pictures. At IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2017).
• Pattisapu, N., Gupta, M., Kumaraguru, P. and Varma, V.. Medical Persona Classification in Social
Media. At IEEE/ACM International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM
2017).
• Lamba, H., Bharadhwaj, V., Vachher, M., Agarwal, D., Arora, M., Sachdeva, N., Kumaraguru, P.
From Camera to Deathbed: Understanding Dangerous Selfies on Social Media. At 11th International
Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2017.
• Goel, S., Ahuja, S., Subramanyam, A., Kumaraguru, P. #VisualHashtags: Visual Summarization
of Social Media Events Using Mid-Level Visual Elements. Accepted at 25th ACM Conference on
MultiMedia 2017.
• Kaushal, R., Chandok, S., Jain, P., Dewan, P., Gupta, N., Kumaraguru, P. Nudging Nemo: Helping
Users Control Linkability across Social Networks. Accepted at 9th International Conference on Social
Informatics, 2017.
• Prateek Dewan, Anshuman Suri, Varun Bharadhwaj, Aditi Mithal and Kumaraguru, P.Towards
Understanding Crisis Events On Online Social Networks Through Pictures. Accepted at IEEE/ACM
International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2017). 19% acceptance
rate.
• Nikhil Pattisapu, Manish Gupta, Kumaraguru, P. and Vasudeva Varma. Medical Persona Classifi-
cation in Social Media. Accepted at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Social Networks Analysis
and Mining (ASONAM 2017). 19% acceptance rate.
• Aishwarya N Reganti, Tushar Maheshwari, Amitava Das, Tanmoy Chakraborthy, Kumaraguru, P.
Understanding Psycho-Sociological Vulnerability of ISIS Patronizers in Twitter. Accepted IEEE/ACM
International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2017). Poster.
• Siddharth Singh, Vedant Nanda, Rijurekha Sen, Sohaib Ahmada, Satadal Sengupta, Amreesh Phokeer,
Zaid Ahead Farooq, Taslim Arefin Khan, Kumaraguru, p. Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, David Cho↵nes,
Krishna Gummadi. An Empirical Analysis of Facebook?s Free Basics. ACM SIGMETRICS 2017.
Poster.
• Lamba, H., Bharadhwaj, V., Vachher, M., Agarwal, D., Arora, M., Sachdeva, N., Kumaraguru, P.
From Camera to Deathbed: Understanding Dangerous Selfies on Social Media. Accepted as Poster at
the 11th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2017. Poster.
• Bagroy, S., Kumaraguru, P., and De Choudhury, M. A Social Media Based Index of Mental Well-
Being in College Campuses. Accepted at the 34th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems (CHI), 2017.
• Sachdeva, N. and Kumaraguru, P. Call for Service: Characterizing and Modeling Police Response
to Serviceable Requests on Facebook. Accepted at 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported
Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) 2017.
• Halevi, T., Memon, N. D., Lewis, J., Kumaraguru, P., Arora, S., Dagar, N., Aloul, F. A., and Chen,
J. Cultural and Psychological Factors in Cyber-Security. Accepted at 18th International Conference
on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2016).
• Gupta, S., Gupta, P., Ahamad, M., and Kumaraguru, P. Exploiting Phone Numbers and Cross-
Application Features in Targeted Mobile Attacks. Accepted at the 6th Workshop on Security and
Privacy in Smartphones and Mobile Devices (SPSM), 2016.
• Kaushal, R., Saha, S., Bajaj, P., and Kumaraguru, P. KidsTube: Detection, Characterization and
Analysis of Child Unsafe Content & Promoters on YouTube. Accepted at Privacy Security and Trust
(PST), 2016.
• Jain, P., Kumaraguru, P., and Joshi, A. Other Times, Other Values: Leveraging Attribute History
to Link User Profiles across Online Social Networks. Accepted at Journal of Social Network Analysis
and Mining (SNAM), 2016.
• Goel, S., Sachdeva, N., Kumaraguru, P., Subramanyam, A., and Gupta, D. PicHunt: Social Media
Image Retrieval for Improved Law Enforcement. Accepted at 8th International Conference on Social
Informatics. 2016.
• Bajaj, P., Kavidayal, M., Srivastava, P., Akthar M., and Kumaraguru, P. Disinformation in Multi-
media Annotation: Misleading Metadata Detection on YouTube. Accepted at ACM Multimedia 2016
Workshop:Vision and Language Integration Meets Multimedia Fusion. 2016.
• Dewan, P., Bagroy, S., and Kumaraguru, P. Hiding in Plain Sight: Characterizing and Detecting
Malicious Facebook Pages. Accepted at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social
Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2016 (Short Paper).
• Sachdeva, N., Kumaraguru, P. and Choudhury, M. - Social Media for Safety: Characterizing Online
Interactions between Citizens and Police. Accepted at 30th British Human Computer Interaction
Conference (BHCI) 2016.
• Sachdeva, N., and Kumaraguru, P. Online Social Media - New face of policing? A Survey Ex-
ploring Perceptions, Behavior, Challenges for Police Field Officers and Residents. Accepted at 18th
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
• Jain, P., and Kumaraguru, P. On the Dynamics of Username Changing Behavior on Twitter. Ac-
cepted at 3rd IKDD Conference on Data Science, 2016.
• Lerman, K., Arora, M., Marin, L., Kumaraguru, P., and Garcia, D. Emotions, Demographics and
Sociability in Online Interactions. Accepted at ICWSM 2016.
• Sachdeva, N., and Kumaraguru, P. Online Social Media - New face of policing? A Survey Ex-
ploring Perceptions, Behavior, Challenges for Police Field Officers and Residents. Accepted at 18th
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2016.
• Jain., P., Kumaraguru, P. On the Dynamics of Username Changing Behavior on Twitter. 3rd IKDD
Conference on Data Science, 2016.
• Jain., P., Kumaraguru, P, and Joshi, A. Other Times, Other Values: Leveraging Attribute History to
Link User Profiles across Online Social Networks. Accepted at the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext
and Social Media (Hypertext) 2015.
• Aggarwal, A., and Kumaraguru, P. What They Do in Shadows: Twitter Underground Follower
Market. Accepted at the 13th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), 2015.
• Dewarn, P., and Kumaraguru, P. Towards Automatic Real Time Identification of Malicious Posts on
Facebook Accepted at the 13th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), 2015.
• Sachdeva, N., and Kumaraguru, P. Online Social Networks and Police in India – Understanding
the Perceptions, Behavior, Challenges. Accepted at the European conference on Computer-Supported
Cooperative Work (ECSCW) 2015.
• Roy, R., Padmakumar, A., Jeganathan, G., and Kumaraguru, P. Automated Linguistic Personal-
ization of Targeted Marketing Messages Mining User-generated Text on Social Media. Proceedings of
the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics 2015
(CICLing ’15). Best paper award.
• Sachdeva, N., and Kumaraguru, P. Social Networks for Police and Residents in India: Exploring
Online Communication for Crime Prevention. 16th Annual International Conference on Digital Gov-
ernment Research. 2015. Best paper award.
• Gupta, A., Kumaraguru, P., Castillo, C., and Meier, P. TweetCred: Real-Time Credibility Assess-
ment of Content on Twitter. Accepted at The 6th International Conference on Social Informatics.
Best Paper Nominees (honorable mention).
• Gupta, N., Aggarwal A. and Kumaraguru, P. bit.ly/malicious: Deep Dive into Short URL based
e-Crime Detection. 9th Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) eCrime Research Symposium (eCRS),
2014. Best paper award.
• Gupta, S., and Kumaraguru, P. Emerging Phishing Trends and E↵ectiveness of the Anti-Phishing
Landing Page. 9th Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) eCrime Research Symposium (eCRS),
2014.
• Dewan, P., Kashyap, A., Kumaraguru, P. Analyzing Social and Stylometric Features to Identify
Spear phishing Emails. Accepted at 9th Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) eCrime Research
Symposium (eCRS), 2014.
• Mittal, S., Gupta, N., Dewan, P., Kumaraguru, P. Pinned it! A large scale study of the Pinterest
network. Accepted at the 1st ACM IKDD Conference on Data Sciences (CoDS), 2014.
• Mohamed, M., Sachdeva, N., Georgescu, M., Gao, S., Saxena, N., Zhang, C., Kumaraguru, P.,
Van Oorschot, P., and Chen, W. A Three-Way Investigation of a Game-CAPTCHA: Automated At-
tacks, Relay Attacks and Usability. Accepted at 9th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and
Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2014.
• Sachdeva, N., Saxena, N., and Kumaraguru, P. On the Viability of CAPTCHAs for Use in Telephony
Systems: A Usability FieldStudy. 16th Information Security Conference November 13-15 in Dallas,
Texas.
• Dewan, P., Gupta, M., Goyal, K., and Kumaraguru, P. MultiOSN: Realtime Monitoring of Real
World Events on Multiple Online Social Media. Accepted at I-CARE 2013.
• Gupta, A., Lamba, H., and Kumaraguru, P. $1.00 per RT #BostonMarathon #PrayForBoston:
Analyzing Fake Content on Twitter. Accepted at IEEE APWG eCrime Research Summit (eCRS),
2013.
• Jain, P., Jain, P., and Kumaraguru, P. Call Me MayBe: Understanding Nature and Risks of Sharing
Mobile Numbers on Online Social Networks. Accepted at the Conference on Online Social Networks
(COSN 2013).
• Narang, K., Lerman, K., and Kumaraguru, P. Network Flows and the Link Prediction Problem.
Accepted at the 7th workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis (SNAKDD) 2013.
• Panjwani, S., Ghosh, M., Singh, S., and Kumaraguru, P. The Paper Slip Should be There: Percep-
tions of Transaction Receipts in Branchless Banking. Accepted at Mobile HCI 2013.
• Lerman, K., Jain, P., Ghosh, R., Kang, J., and Kumaraguru, P. In Proceedings of International
Conference on Social Intelligence and Technology (SOCIETY). 2013.
• Magalhes, T., Dewan, P., Kumaraguru, P., Melo-Minardi, R., Almeida, V. uTrack: Track Yourself!
Monitoring Information on Online Social Media. Accepted at the 22nd International World Wide Web
Conference (WWW) (2013). Demo track.
• Gupta, A., Lamba, H., Kumaraguru, P., Joshi, A. Faking Sandy: Characterizing and Identifying
Fake Images on Twitter during Hurricane Sandy. Accepted at the 2nd International Workshop on
Privacy and Security in Online Social Media (PSOSM), in conjunction with the 22th International
World Wide Web Conference (WWW) (2013).
• Jain, P., Kumaraguru, P., Joshi, A. @I seek ‘fb.me’: Identifying Users across Multiple Online So-
cial Networks. Accepted at the 2nd International Workshop on Web of Linked Entities (WoLE), in
conjunction with the 22th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) (2013).
• Aggarwal, A., Almeida, J., Kumaraguru, P. Detection of Spam Tipping Behaviour on Foursquare.
Accepted at the 2nd International Workshop on Mining Social Network Dynamics (MSND), in con-
junction with the 22th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) (2013).
• Ottoni, R., Pesce, J., Casas, D., Franciscani, G., Meira, W., Kumaraguru, P., Almeida, V. Ladies
First: Analyzing Gender Roles and Behaviors in Pinterest. Accepted at The International AAAI
Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) 2013.
• Yadav, K., Saha, S., Kumaraguru, P., Kumra, R. Take Control of Your SMSes: Designing an
Usable Spam SMS Filtering System. Accepted at the 13th International Conference on Mobile Data
Management (MDM) (2012). Demo track
• Pontes, T., Magno, G., Vasconcelos, M., Gupta, A., Almeida, J., Kumaraguru, P., and Almeida,
V. Beware of What You Share: Inferring Home Location in Social Networks. Accepted at Privacy in
Social Data (PinSoda), in conjunction with International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) (2012).
• Aggarawal, A., Rajadesingan, A., and Kumaraguru, P. PhishAri: Automatic Realtime Phishing
Detection on Twitter. In Anti-Phishing Working Group e-Crime Researchers Summit (2012). Best
paper award.
• Gupta, A., Joshi, A., and Kumaraguru, P. Identifying and Characterizing User Communities on
Twitter during Crisis Events. Workshop on Data-driven User Behavioral Modelling and Mining from
Social Media, Co-located with CIKM (2012).
• Pontes, T., Vasconcelos, M., Almeida, J., Kumaraguru, P., and Almeida, V. We Know Where You
Live: Privacy Characterization of Foursquare Behavior. Accepted at 4th International Workshop on
Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN 2012).
• Malhotra, A., Totti, L., Meira, W., Kumaraguru, P., and Almeida, V. Studying user footprints in
di↵erent online social networks. Accepted at International Workshop on Cybersecurity of Online Social
Network (CSOSN) (2012).
• Gupta, A., and Kumaraguru, P. Credibility ranking of tweets during high impact events. Workshop
on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, Co-located with WWW (2012).
• Asthana, S., Singh, P., Kumaraguru, P., Singh, A., and Naik, V. Tring! tring! - An exploration and
analysis of interactive voice response systems. IndiaHCI (2012).
• Jain, P., Rodrigues, T., Magno, G., Kumaraguru, P., and Almeida, V. Cross-pollination of informa-
tion in online social media: A case study on popular social networks. Third International Conference
on Social Computing (2011).
• Rauber, G., Almeida, V., and Kumaraguru, P. Privacy Albeit Late. Seventeenth edition of WebMe-
dia, Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web (2011).
• Chhabra, S., Aggarwal, A., Benevenuto, F., and Kumaraguru, P. Phi.sh/$oCiaL: The Phishing
Landscape through Short URLs. Accepted at 8th Annual Collaboration, Electronic messaging, Anti-
Abuse and Spam Conference (CEAS 2011). Best paper award.
• Ion, I., Sachdeva, N., Kumaraguru, P., and Capkun, S. Home is Safer than the Cloud! Privacy
Concerns for Consumer Cloud Storage. Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) (2011).
• Agarwal, V., Desai, V., Kapoor, S., Kumaraguru, P., and Mittal, S. Enhancing the Rural Self Help
Group Bank Linkage Program. IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics,
and Informatics (2011).
• Gupta, A., Viswanathan, K. K., Joshi, A., Finin, T., and Kumaraguru, P. Integrating Linked Open
Data with Unstructured Text for Intelligence Gathering Tasks. In Proceedings of the Information
Integration on the Web (IIWeb), Co-located workshop at WWW (2011).
• Khot, R., Kannan, S., and Kumaraguru, P. Marasim: A Novel Jigsaw Based Authentication Scheme
using Tagging. In Proceedings of the 29th international Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems. CHI 2011. ACM.
• Adappa, S., Agarwal, V., Goyal, S., Kumaraguru, P., and Mittal, S. User Controllable Security and
Privacy for Mobile Mashups. HotMobile, 2011.
• Yadav, K., Kumaraguru, P., Goyal, A., Gupta, A., and Naik, V. SMSAssassin: Crowdsourcing
driven mobile-based system for sms spam filtering. HotMobile, 2011.
• Kumaraguru, P., and Sureka, A. Anti - Terrorism in India. Terrorism and New Media: Building a
Research Network. Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, 2010.
• Ghai, S. K., Nigam, P., and Kumaraguru, P. Cue : A Framework for Generating Meaningful Feedback
in XACML. 3rd ACM Workshop on Assurable & Usable Security Conguration, in conjunction with
CCS, 2010.
• Sureka, A., Kumaraguru, P., Goyal, A., and Chhabra, S. Mining YouTube to Discover Hate Videos,
Users and Hidden Communities. Accepted at Sixth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference,
2010.
• Yadav, K., Naik, V., Singh, A., Singh, P., Kumaraguru, P., and Chandra, U. Challenges and Novelties
while using Mobile Phones as ICT Devices for Indian Masses. ACM Workshop on Networked Systems
for Developing Regions, 2010.
• Ion, I., Langheinrich, M., Kumaraguru, P., and Capkun, S. Influence of User Perception, Security
Needs, and Social Factors on Device Pairing Method Choices. Accepted at Symposium On Usable
Privacy and Security, 2010.
• Sheng, S., Holbrook, M., Kumaraguru, P., Cranor, L., and Downs, J. Who Falls for Phish? A
Demographic Analysis of Phishing Susceptibility and E↵ectiveness of Interventions. In Proceedings
of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (New York, NY, USA,
2010), CHI 10, ACM, pp. 373–382.
• Rengamani, H., Kumaraguru, P., Chakraborty, R., and Rao, R. The Unique Identification Number
Project: Challenges and Recommendations. Accepted at The Third International Conference on Ethics
and Policy of Biometrics and International Data Sharing (ICEB), 2010.
• Sheng, S., Kumaraguru, P., Acquisti, A., Cranor, L., and Hong, J. Improving Phishing Countermea-
sures: An Analysis of Expert Interviews. e-Crime Researchers Summit, Anti-Phishing Working Group,
2009.
• Kumaraguru, P., Cranor, L., and Mather, L. Anti-phishing landing page: Turning a 404 into a
teachable moment for end users. Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, 2009.
• Kumaraguru, P., Cranshaw, J., Acquisti, A., Cranor, L., Hong, J., Blair, M. A., and Pham, T.
School of Phish: A Real-World Evaluation of Anti-Phishing Training. Symposium On Usable Privacy
and Security, 2009.
• Kumaraguru, P., Sheng, S., Acquisti, A., Cranor, L., and Hong, J. PhishGuru: Lessons From a Real
World Evaluation of Anti-Phishing Training. In e-Crime Researchers Summit, Anti-Phishing Working
Group, October 15 - 16, 2008, Atlanta, USA.
• Kumaraguru, P., Sheng, S., Acquisti, A., Cranor, L., and Hong, J. Anti-Phishing Education. In
Proceedings of The International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace (ICELW 2008).
• Sheedy, C., Kumaraguru, P. A Contextual Method for Evaluating Privacy Preferences. Policies and
Research in Identity Management (IDMAN), October 11 - 12, 2007, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• Kumaraguru, P., Rhee, Y., Sheng, S., Hasan, S., Acquisti, A., Cranor, L.F., and Hong, J. Getting
users to pay attention to anti-phishing education: Evaluation of retention and transfer. In e-Crime
Researchers Summit, Anti-Phishing Working Group, October 4 - 5, 2007, Pittsburgh, USA.
• Sheng, S., Magnien, B., Kumaraguru, P., Acquisti, A., Cranor, L.F., Hong, J., and Nunge, E. Anti-
phishing phil: The design and evaluation of a game that teaches people not to fall for phish. In SOUPS
’07: Proceedings of the 3rd symposium on Usable privacy and security (New York, NY, USA, March
2007).
• Kumaraguru, P., Cranor, L., Lobo, J., and Calo, S. A survey of privacy policy languages. Workshop
on Usable IT Security Management (USM ’07). In SOUPS ’07: Proceedings of the 3rd symposium on
Usable privacy and security (New York, NY, USA, March 2007), ACM, Symposium On Usable Privacy
and Security.
 • Kumaraguru, P., Rhee, Y., Acquisti, A., Cranor, L. F., Hong, J., and Nunge, E. Protecting people
from phishing: the design and evaluation of an embedded training email system. In CHI ’07: Proceed-
ings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, New York, NY, USA, May,
2007, ACM Press, pp. 905 - 914.
• Kumaraguru, P., Acquisti, A., and Cranor, L. Trust modeling for online transactions: A phishing
scenario. In the proceedings of Privacy Security Trust, Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2006, Ontario, Canada
• Kumaraguru, P., Cranor, L., and Newton, E. Privacy Perceptions in India and the United States:
An Interview Study. In The 33rd Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet
Policy (TPRC), Sep 23 - Sep 25, 2005, The National Center for Technology and Law, George Mason
University School of Law, USA.
• Diesner, J., Kumaraguru, P., and Carley, K.Mental Models of Data Privacy and Security Extracted
from Interviews with Indians. 55th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association
(ICA), May 26-30, 2005. New York, NY.
• Kumaraguru, P., and Cranor, L. Privacy in India: Attitudes and Awareness.In Proceedings of the
2005 Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET 2005), 30 May - 1 June 2005, Dubrovnik,
Croatia.

Technical Reports

• Sachdeva, N., Kumaraguru, P. Online Social Media and Police in India: Behavior, Perceptions,
Challenges.
• Sachdeva, N., and Kumaraguru, P. Privacy4ICTD in India: Exploring Perceptions, Attitudes and
Awareness about ICT Use.
• Dewan, P., Gupta, M., Goyal, K., and Kumaraguru, P. MultiOSN: Monitoring Multiple Online
Social Networks During Real-World Events.
• Jain, P., and Kumaraguru, P. Finding Nemo: Searching and Resolving Identities of Users Across
Online Social Networks.
• Kumaraguru, P., and Sachdeva, N. Privacy in India: Attitudes and Awareness V 2.0. Tech. rep.,
PreCog-TR-12-001, PreCog@IIIT-Delhi, 2012.
• Yadav, K., Malhotra, A., Kumaraguru, P., Khurana, R., and Singh, D.K. Take Control Over your
SMSes: A Real-World Evaluation of a Mobile-based SpamSMS Filtering System. IIITD-TR-2012-007,
July 2012.
• Dewan, P., Gupta, M., and Kumaraguru, P. ChaMAILeon: Simplified Email Sharing Like Never
Before. IIITD-TR-2012-003, March 2012.
• Gupta, A., and Kumaraguru, P. Twitter Explodes with Activity in Mumbai Blasts! A Lifeline or
an Unmonitored Daemon in the Lurking? IIITD-TR-2011-005, August 2011.
• Kumaraguru, P., and Cranor, L. Privacy Indexes: A Survey of Westin’s Studies. Tech. rep. CMU-
ISRI-5-138, December 2005, Institute for Software Research International (ISRI), Carnegie Mellon
University.
• Egelman, S., and Kumaraguru, P. DIMACS Workshop and Working Group Meeting on Usable
Privacy and Security, DIMACS Center - Rutgers University, July 7 - 9 2004.

OTHER ACADEMIC PURSUITS

• Post Graduation Diploma in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations. Aug 1998 - May 1999.
Annamalai University, India
• Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications. Aug 1997 - Aug 1998. Loyola Institute of Business
Administration - Informatics Center, India
HONOURS & AWARDS
• Received Outstanding Educator Award from #Classof2018. Citation for the award “from the gradu-
ating batches of BTech and MTech 2018. The award recognizes brilliance in teaching and creating a
positive impact on students through your interaction with them in IIIT Delhi. The award recipients
were selected through students nominating their top two favorites.”
• Awarded commendation for teaching for CSE501 Designing Human Centered Systems. Spring 2018
semester, based on the feedback given by students from the course.
• Awarded commendation for teaching for CSE501 Designing Human Centered Systems. Spring 2017
semester, based on the feedback given by students from the course.
• Best paper award. Gupta, D., Sen, I., Sachdeva, N., Kumaraguru, P. and Buduru, A. Empowering
First Responders through Automated Multimodal Content Moderation. Accepted at The Second IEEE
International Congress on Cognitive Computing, San Francisco, 2-7 July, 2018.
• Awarded commendation for teaching for CSE501 Designing Human Centered Systems. Spring 2016
semester, based on the feedback given by students from the course.
• Awarded commendation for teaching for CSE648: Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. Fall
2015 semester, based on the feedback given by students from the course.
• Awarded commendation for teaching for CSE501 Designing Human Centered Systems. Winter 2015
semester, based on the feedback given by students from the course.
• Best paper award. Aggarwal, A., and Kumaraguru, P. What They Do in Shadows: Twitter Under-
ground Follower Market. 13th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), 2015.
• Best paper award. Social Networks for Police and Residents in India: Exploring Online Communication
for Crime Prevention. Sachdeva, N., and Kumaraguru, P. 16th Annual International Conference on
Digital Government Research. 2015.
• Best paper award. Roy, R., Padmakumar, A., Jeganathan, G., and Kumaraguru, P. Automated Lin-
guistic Personalization of Targeted Marketing Messages Mining User-generated Text on Social Media.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational
Linguistics 2015 (CICLing ’15).
• Best paper award. Gupta, N., Aggarwal A. and Kumaraguru, P. bit.ly/malicious: Deep Dive into
Short URL based e-Crime Detection. In Anti-Phishing Working Group e-Crime Researchers Summit
(2014).
• Best Paper Nominees (honorable mentions). TweetCred: Real-Time Credibility Assessment of Content
on Twitter. Gupta, A., Kumaraguru, P., Castillo, C., and Meier, P. Accepted at The 6th International
Conference on Social Informatics. 2014.
• Best B.Tech. thesis award. Engineering category. Backpack. Student: Apoorv Narang. 2014.
• Best B.Tech. thesis award. Entrepreneurship category. Ingage. Student: Aditya Kumar Nayak. 2014.
• Received Adobe Research Excellence Award for 2013 – 2016.
• Selected as one of the 11 ACM Eminent Speakers from the country by ACM. ACM India Council did
the selection on their own, there was no call for nominations. 2014.
• Wombat named as Top Tech Company to Watch in Pittsburgh by NEXT Pittsburgh. March, 2014.
• Best poster award. Gupta, A., Lamba, H., Kumaraguru, P. Analyzing and Measuring Spread of Fake
Content on Twitter during High Impact Events. Security and Privacy Symposium IIT, Kanpur, 2014.
• Wombat was Gold Winner of Information Security Product’s Guide “Tomorrow’s Technology Today,”
Bronze Winner of Information Security Product’s Guide “New Product Award”. March, 2014.
• Wombat was selected as a finalist for startup of the year for the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s Tech
50 awards! Aug 2013,
• Wombat Security named as 2013 Hot Company award winner by Network Products Guide. May 2013.
 • Best poster award. Gupta, S., Gupta, M., and Kumaraguru, P. OCEAN: Open source Collation of
eGovernment data and Networks. Security and Privacy Symposium, IIT Kanpur. Feb 28 – 2 March,
2013.
• 2nd Runner’s Up prize, Best poster award. Sachdeva, N., and Kumaraguru, P. U2P2: Understanding
User Privacy Perceptions. Security and Privacy Symposium, IIT Kanpur. Feb 28 – 2 March, 2013.
• Best paper award. Aggarawal, A., Rajadesingan, A., and Kumaraguru, P. PhishAri: Automatic Real-
time Phishing Detection on Twitter. In Anti-Phishing Working Group e-Crime Researchers Summit
(2012).
• Wombat Security Technologies, Inc. won the ‘Gold Winner’ at The Golden Globe Awards for IT
Training and Education. Oct 2012.
• SMSAssassin won the second prize at APP KRAFT competition. Oct 2012.
• PhishGuru 3.0 Wins PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice for Anti-Phishing Products, June 2012
• Awarded commendation for teaching Foundations of Computer Security, Fall 2011 at IIIT-Delhi.
• 2nd Runner’s Up prize. Gupta, A., Chhabra, A., and Kumaraguru, P. Twit-Digest. IBM I-CARE
2012.
• Hemant Bharat Ram Faculty Research Fellowship, Sep 2012 - Aug 2017
• Best paper award. Chhabra, S., Aggarwal, A., Benevenuto, F., and Kumaraguru, P. Phi.sh/$oCiaL:
The Phishing Landscape through Short URLs. In 8th Annual Collaboration, Electronic messaging,
Anti-Abuse and Spam Conference (CEAS 2011).
• Awarded commendation for teaching Research Methods, Spring 2011 at IIIT-Delhi.
• Awarded commendation for teaching Foundations of computer security, Fall 2010 at IIIT-Delhi.
• Full financial scholarship for Ph.D. supported by Carnegie Mellon CyLab and NSF, Sep 2004 - May
2009
• Full financial scholarship for M.S., Software Systems by SlashSupport, Inc., Dec 2000 - May 2002
• Member of the “Best Stall Award” winning team at IT.com, India, Nov 2000
• Partial Financial Scholarship for High School, Apr 1992 - Apr 1994
• General Proficiency award in the Math talent Examination conducted by Gnanadheep Academy, March
1992

SERVICE
Government advisory roles / interactions

• Member of the Sub-group of the Technical Advisory Committee, for exploring methodology & tech-
nology to be deployed for conduct of Census 2021. Ministry of Home A↵airs (MHA). May 2019 -
Present.
• Member of the Technical Advisory Committee, evaluating t-Fibre technical details & implementation.
Telengana state government. Sept 2018 - Feb 2019.
• Member of Project Review and Steering Group (PRSG). Centre of Excellence on Internet of Things
(IoT). NASSCOM. Funded by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). 2018 –
2020. Worth few crores of Rupees.
• Member of committee on AI for CyberSecurity, Safety, Legal and Ethical issues. Ministry of Electronics
and Information Technology (MeitY). Feb 2018 – present.
• Member of a Sub-Group, Micro Mission, National Police Mission setup by the Bureau of Police Research
and Development (BPR&D), MHA, Government of India. Jan 2015 – Present.
• Member of Project Review and Steering Group (PRSG). Design and Development of opinion mining
and sentiment analysis of social media content to assess security threat. Indian Institute of Technology,
Guwahati (IITG). Funded by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY). 2016 –
2018.
• Member of Review Committee. Information Security and Data Protection Policy. Defence Research
& Development Organization. 2016.
• Member of a Prime Minister’s Silver Cup Essay Competition. Committee comprises of 6 members,
including nominee from Prime Minister’s Office and Director of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National
Police Academy, Hyderabad. 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.
• Member of Project Management Review Committee. Analysis of IP Traffic over Satellite (SAMVAAD).
Defence Research & Development Organization. 2015 – 2018.
• Member of a Committee for implementing the Open Source Intelligence Solution at National Intel-
ligence Grid (NATGRID), Ministry of Home A↵airs (MHA), Government of India. March 2016 -
Present.
• Member of a Steering Committee for developing Early Warning System (EWS). Serious Fraud Inves-
tigation Office, Ministry of Corporate A↵airs, Government of India. Jan 2016 - Present.
• Member of a Working Group on Technology, setup under the Cybersecurity Task Force. This Task
Force is setup by NASSCOM & DSCI upon a challenge by the Prime Minister of India. May 2015 -
Dec 2015.
• Member of Review Committee. Technology Foresight Study taken up in partnership with C-DAC, Pune
& DSCI, New Delhi. Information & Communication Security & Financial Sector Security. Funded by
Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC). 2015 – 2016.
• Member of Project Review and Steering Group (PRSG), Global, Regional and Domestic Factors Im-
pacting India’s Cyber Security, by Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA), Delhi. Funded
by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY). 2015 – 2017.
• Upon request from CBI HQ in Delhi, hosted 4 police officers from Royal Canadian Mounted Police at
IIITD, as part of their Delegation to India. April 21, 2015.
• Part of a 6 member delegation from India to attend the Indo-UK workshop on Underpinning the
Development Data Revolution Social Media Data & Research. Organised by ICSSR - ESRC. January
9, 2015.
• Instrumental in setting up multiple Online Social Media Labs in the country. http://timesofindia.
indiatimes.com/city/meerut/Meerut-gets-2nd-social-media-lab-in-country-after-
Mumbai/articleshow/48594285.cms
• Member of a Sub-Group, Micro Mission, National Police Mission setup by the Bureau of Police Research
and Development (BPR&D), Government of India. Jan 2015 – Present.
• Member of a delegation (4 members) from India to attend the First meeting of the Joint Committee
on Science and Technology Peru-India in Lima. April 2014.
• Member of Committee to Evolve Long term Technology Perspective Plan (LTTPP) for DRDO. 2012 –
2014. Contributed in framing the DRDO Information Security Procedures and guidelines and drafting
the Cyber Security section of the Plan.
• Member of Project Review and Steering Group (PRSG), Development of Active Honeypot for Dis-
tributed Honeynet System, by C-DAC Mohali. Funded by Department of Electronics and Information
Technology (DeitY). 2012 – 2014.
• Member of Project Review and Steering Group (PRSG), Development and Implementation of Reac-
tive Roaming Scheme for Honeypots, by IIITM Gwalior. Funded by Department of Electronics and
Information Technology (DeitY). 2011 – 2012.
• Member of the Indo-Brazil Joint Commission on Science and Technology (JCST) setup by Department
of Science and Technology. 2012.
Industry advisory roles / interactions

• Member of the Inaugural Asia Advisory Board of International Association of Privacy Professionals
(IAPP). April 2016 – Present.
• Founding member of the CSO Forum Advisory Council, India, 2010 - Dec 2015.

University, IIIT Delhi

• Post Graduate Admissions Panel. IIIT Hyderabad. Summer 2018.

• Associate Dean of Alumni Relations and Communications. July 2017 - April 2018.
– Helped organise Retrace’18 our annual alumni meet.
– Co-Organised and participated in multiple alumni meets around the country, Bengaluru, Noida.
– Created Alumni Awards
– Organised multiple Alumni connect programs between current students and Alums
– Helped organise public lecture, Nov 2017
• M.Tech. Co-ordinator, M.Tech. in Computer Science specialization in Information Security. Aug 2016
- April 2018.
• Member of PGC, Aug 2016 – Present. April 2013 – Jan 2014
• Faculty Co-ordinator, Entrepreneurship activities, May 2014 - July 2015. Instrumental in setting up
the Incubation Centre
• Member of many selection committees to recruit sta↵
• Principal architect for the MoU between IIITD & CISO Academy, Sept 2014
• Founding Head, Cybersecurity Education and Research Centre, Jan 2014 - Present. Instrumental in
setting up the Centre
• Branding Coordinator, Aug 2013 – April 2014
• R & D Committee. Aug 2013 – Jan 2014
• Member of PGC, April 2013 – Jan 2014
• Member of 5th year Anniversary committee, April 2013 – Oct 2013
• Founding Alumni Relations Coordinator, IIIT Delhi, 2012 – 2013
• Founding M.Tech. Coordinator, IIIT Delhi, 2010 – 2012
• Founding faculty sponsor for the IIIT-Delhi ACM Student Chapter, IIIT-Delhi, 2010 – 2012
• Founding faculty patron for Research Showcase, 2010 – 2012
• Founding IIIT-Delhi Seminar Series Coordinator, 2009 – 2011
• Member of M.Tech. Student Admissions Committee, IIIT-Delhi, 2010 – 2011
• Member of Ph.D. Student Admissions Committee, IIIT-Delhi, 2010
• Member of the Senate, IIIT-Delhi, 2009 – 2011

Service to Profession

• Helped organise India – Hague Cybersecurity Summer School. Hague, Netherlands. 9 – 13 July, 2018
• Co-Organizer Summer School on Social Computing. 29 June – 3 July, 2018. This was organised at
IIIT Hyderabad.
• Program Committee Member CODS-COMAD 2020
• Program Committee Member CHI 2019
• Board of Studies, B.Tech on Cybersecurity. Raksha Shakti University, Gujarat. Fall 2017 – Present
• Board of Studies , Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University
For Women (IGDTUW). March 2018 – Present
• Co-organized Winter School on User Experience Design with Prof. Aman Parnami. 2018. IIIT
Hyderabad.
• External Program Curriculum Reviewer, Masters in Computer Applications (MCA) and M.Sc. Com-
puter Science, Delhi University.
• External Masters thesis examiner. Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Delhi. May 2017
• External B.Tech. thesis examiner. IGDTUW. May 2017.
• Program Committee Member WWW 2018
• Program Committee Member ICWSM 2018
• Program Committee Member CSCW 2018
• Program Committee Member Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PoETS) 2017, 2018
• Technical Program Co-Chair IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) 2018
• On Student Review Committee for a couple of Ph.D. students at IIT Delhi
• Co-Organizer for Security and Privacy Symposium. Attended by 100+ participants, including faculty
/ researchers, and students from all around India. 6 April, 2018.
• Co-Organizer Summer School on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. 3 – 7 July, 2017. This
was organised at IIIT Hyderabad.
• Co-organized Winter School on User Experience Design with Prof. Aman Parnami. Dec 4 - Dec 7,
2017. IIIT Delhi https://iiitd.ac.in/uxd-winterschool2017/
• Co-oragnized the Workshop on User Generated Content at IISc. 70+ participants.
• Co-Organizer Summer School on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. 3 – 7 July, 2017.
• M.Tech. Thesis examiner, JIIT, May 2017
• Co-Organizer for Security and Privacy Symposium. 10 – 11 Feb, 2017.
• Program Committee member of ICWSM 2017, 2018, 2019
• Instructor, Workshop for School Teachers on Strategies for Safe and E↵ective Use of Online Social
Media. May 2, 2015.
• Co-Organizer for Security and Privacy Symposium. 12 – 13 Feb, 2016.
• Technical PC Co-Chair, ACM Compute 2015 Conference, India.
• Co-Organizer for Security and Privacy Symposium. Attended by 150+ participants, including 40
faculty / researchers, and 60 students from all around India. 14 – 15 Feb, 2015.
• Committee member for evaluating scholars for Chevening TCS Cyber Policy Scholarship Programme.
Dec 2, 2014.
• Co-Organizer for Social Design Jam. Attended by 65+ participants. 1 – 3 Aug, 2014.
• Co-Organizer Innovate Delhi Entrepreneurship Academy, India. innovatedelhi.com 120+ participants
from all around the country attended the program. This program was co-organized with Stanford
Business School.
• Co-Organizer for Security and Privacy Symposium. Played the role in conceptualizing this event
until and organizing the complete technical aspects of the Symposium. Attended by 100 participants,
including 40 faculty / researchers, and 60 students from all around India. 20 – 22 Feb, 2014.
• Taught 12 hours of lecture in Prof. Dheeraj Sanghi’s course on Computer Security at IIT Kanpur. 13
– 16 Jan, 2014. Topics covered – Taught Privacy, Trust, and Social Engineering.
• Part of the Technical Advisory Committee for the ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN),
cosn.acm.org. Six of the best workshops on Online Social Media were merged to create this conference
and we are looking at making this a single big conference in the area of Online Social Networks.
Program Committee member: 2014. Publicity & Web Chair: 2013, 2014, 2015
• Co-organizer for the Workshop on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, Co-located with WWW
2013, http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/events/psosm2013/
• Co-Organizer for Indo-UK workshop on Cybersecurity. Attended by a 14 member delegation from the
UK and 15 member team from India. This was funded by Department of Science and Technology,
India. 24 – 27 March, 2013. Infosys funded one day visit to the Hyderabad campus for the delegation.
indouk-cs.iiitd.ac.in
• Co-Organizer for the Workshop on Consumer Privacy Around the Globe at the Global Privacy Summit,
March 6 – 8, 2013. This was attended by about 30 privacy professionals around the globe. Washington
DC, USA.
• Co-Organizer for Security and Privacy Symposium. Played the role in conceptualizing this event
until and organizing the complete technical aspects of the Symposium. Attended by 100 participants,
including 60 faculty / researchers, and 40 students from all around India. 28 Feb – 2 March, 2013.
http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/sps2013/
• Program Committee member for the International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2013 – 2017.
• Program Committee member for 8th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communica-
tions Security (ASIACCS), 2013.
• Program Committee member for Sixth Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data
(AND) collocated with COLING 2013.
• Co-organized a Tutorial with my Ph.D. student Aditi Gupta on Privacy and Security in Online Social
Media. International Workshop on Information Security. 15 – 19 Dec, 2012.
• Co-organizer for the Workshop on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, Co-located with WWW
2012,
• Co-organizer for the Internship Program in Technology Supported Education (IPTSE), Winter School
2011, http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/ws2011/
• Co-organized a one day workshop on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, 23 July, 2011.
CDAC-Hyderabad.
• Publicity Co-Chair, Thirteenth International conference on Mobile Data Management, 2012
• Reviewer for ACM’s Transaction of the Web (TWEB)
• Program committee member for IEEE International Conference on Information Privacy, Security, Risk
and Trust (PASSAT), 2011
• Reviewer for INTERACT 2011, Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
• Program committee member for Second Workshop on Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing, 2011
• Program committee member for 3rd International Workshop on Security in Cloud Computing (Cloud-
Sec), 2011
• Program committee member of eCrime Researchers Summit, 2010, 2011
• Co-Organizer, Privacy and Security in Social Media: An International Perspective (PSSM), 2011
• Track Co-Chair, Spam & Security in Social Networks at Collaboration, Electronic Messaging, Anti-
Abuse and Spam Conference (CEAS), 2011
• Program Committee, International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Spontaneous Interaction and
Mobile Phone Use, 2011
• Committee, Multidisciplinary paper on privacy, Computers, Privacy & Data Protection CPDP 2011
• Program Committee, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS), 2011
• External reviewer, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), 2010
• Program Committee, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM), 2010
• External Reviewer, Military Communications Conference, Unclassified Program, Track on Cyber Se-
curity and Network Management, 2010
• Program Committee, International Workshop on Security in Cloud Computing, 2010
• Program Committee, International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Spontaneous Interaction and
Mobile Phone Use, 2010
• Programme Committee, I-CARE (IBM-IRL Collaborative Academia Research Exchange), 2010
• Coordinating Editor, Information Systems Frontier, April 2010 - July 2013
• Invited member for Action Group Committee, Information Security Education and Awareness Pro-
gram, Government of India, April 2010
• Program Co-Chair, Collaboration, Electronic messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam Conference, 2010
• Program committee member of Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2010
• Reviewer for Computer Human Interaction (CHI), 2009, 2010 – 2017
• Reviewer for The Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2010
• Reviewer for Impact: Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning
• Reviewer for ACM’s Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
• Program Co-Chair, eCrime Researchers Summit, 2009
• Usable Security Track Co-Chair, International conference and workshop on Cyber Security, Cyber
Crime and Cyber Forensics, 2009
• Reviewer for International Journal of Information Security
• External reviewer for Financial Cryptography 2009
• Panelist for selecting best course project in 08-731 - Web commerce, security, and privacy, Fall 2008,
CMU
• Judge in evaluating course projects in 95-762 - Privacy in the Digital Age, Fall 2008, CMU
• Active member of the Internet Policy Committee (IPC), Anti-Phishing Working Group. 2008 – 2009
• Student volunteer, Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security, 2008
• Program committee member of Faculty Workshop on Secure Software Development, 2008
• Active member of the Advisory board for creating a credential Certified Information Privacy Pro-
fessional (Information Technology), CIPP(IT) for International Association of Privacy Professionals
(IAPP). 2007 – 2009
• External reviewer for Computer Human Interaction (CHI), 2008
• Program committee member of e-business congress in Toronto, 2007
• External reviewer for 7th Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2007
• External reviewer for 4th International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in Digital Business,
2007
• Program committee member of W3C Workshop on Languages for Privacy Policy Negotiation and
Semantics-Driven Enforcement, 2006
• External reviewer for 3rd International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in Digital Business,
TrustBus, 2006
• External reviewer for International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST, 2006
• Graduate student representative to the Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) of Carnegie Mellon Uni-
versity for COS PhD. program (Spring 2006, Fall 2006)
 • Posters Co-chair for Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security, 2005
• President of the Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN), IIIT Hyderabad Chapter, India, Feb
2003 - Feb 2004

ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIA TRAINING PROGRAMS. June 2015 - Present

• Using Online Social Media for Law & Order, Intelligence, Investigation and Internal Security. NPA,
Hyderabad. June 7, 2019
• Using Online Social Media to Study Terrorism. NIA, New Delhi. June 4, 2019
• Using Online Social Media for Law & Order, Intelligence, Investigation and Internal Security. NPA.
Full course as instructor. Feb 11 – 13, 2019. 60+ officers attended.
• The Challenges of Cyber Security in the context of National Security. NIA Academy, Delhi. Feb 22,
2019
• Using Online Social Media for Law & Order, Intelligence, Investigation and Internal Security. Pune
Police. Feb 18, 2019. 50+ officers attended.
• Social Media Analytics & Its Exploitation. Army War College, Indore. Feb 11, 2019.
• Social Media Analytics & Its Exploitation. Army War College, Indore. Oct 6, 2018.
• Using Online Social Media for Internal Security. NPA Hyderabad. Oct 1, 2018.
• Using Online Social Media for Law & Order, Intelligence, Investigation and Internal Security. BPRD.
May 17, 2018. 50+ officers attended.
• Social Media for Policing. National Police Academy. March 23, 2018.
• Social Media for Policing. National Industrial Security Academy. Feb 14, 2018.
• Social Media Forensics. 24th All India Forensics Science Conference. Feb 11, 2018. 350+ participants.
• Social Media for Policing. CBI Academy. March 23, 2018.
• Social Media for Policing. CISF, Delhi. Nov 2, 2017.
• Using Online Social Media for Policing, National Police Academy (NPA), Hyderabad. May 16, 2017.
38 officers.
• Social Media tracking for Issue Management: Point - Counterpoint. Organised for Indian Information
Service Officers, May 11, 2017. In IIIT Delhi. 10 officers.
• Using Online Social Media for Policing, Intelligence, L&O and Investigation. National Police Academy
(NPA), Hyderabad. May 16, 2017. 38 officers attended.
• Social Media tracking for Issue Management: Point - Counterpoint. Organised for Indian Information
Service Officers, May 11, 2017. In IIIT Delhi. 10 officers attended.
• Using Online Social Media for Policing, Intelligence, L&O and Investigation. Organised by Ministry
of Home A↵airs. April 27, 207. 100+ officers all around the country attended.
• Using Online Social Media for Policing, Intelligence, L&O and Investigation. National Police Academy
(NPA), Hyderabad. Feb 15, 2017. 38 officers attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. DRDO, Delhi. Feb 14, 2017. 30+ scientists / officers
attended.
• Online Social Media Analysis: Its Use in Intelligence Gathering and Online Investigations. CBI
Academy. Jan 18, 2017. 20+ officers attended.
• Exploitation of Social Networking Sites for Perception Management. Army War College, Indore. Oct
19, 2016. 17+ officers attended.
• Using Online Social Media for Policing, Intelligence, L&O and Investigation. IIITD campus. Oct 17 -
18, 2016. 15+ officers attended.
• Cybersecurity: Online Social Media, Email Security, & Privacy. Indian Army. Oct 5 - 6, 2016. 12+
officers attended.
• Using Online Social Media for Policing, Intelligence, L&O and Investigation. As part of a course
organised by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) Delhi. Sept 23, 2016. 20+ officers attended.
• Using Online Social Media for Policing, Intelligence, L&O and Investigation. IIITD campus. Sept 27
- 28, 2016. 55+ officers attended.
• Using Online Social Media for Policing, Intelligence, L&O and Investigation. IIITD campus. Sept 14
- 15, 2016. 20+ officers attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. DRDO. Sept 8, 2016. 20+ scientists / officers attended.
• Using Online Social Media for Policing, Intelligence, L&O and Investigation. IIITD campus. National
Police Academy (NPA), Hyderabad. Aug 10, 2016. 25+ officers attended.
• Helped organise a workshop on Online Social Media and Policing. National Police Academy (NPA),
Hyderabad. March 22 - 23, 2016. 25+ officers attended.
• Using Online Social Media for Policing, Intelligence, L&O and Investigation. IIITD campus. March
14 - 15, 2016. 30+ officers attended.
• Using Online Social Media for Policing, Intelligence, L&O and Investigation. IIITD campus. Dec 14 -
16, 2015. 30+ officers attended.
• Online Social Media Analysis: Its Use in Intelligence Gathering and Online Investigations. CBI
Academy. Nov 30, 2015. 20+ officers attended.
• Using Online Social Media for Policing, Intelligence, L&O and Investigation. Kerala Police, Trivan-
drum. Nov 24, 2015. 65+ officers attended.
• Using Online Social Media for Policing, Intelligence, L&O and Investigation. Jharkhand Police, Ranchi.
Nov 19, 2015. 25+ officers attended.
• Using Online Social Media for Policing, Intelligence, L&O and Investigation. Criminal Investigation
Department (CID), Kolkata, West Bengal. Oct 29, 2015. 15+ officers attended.
• Use of Open Source Intelligence and Social Media Analysis. As part of a Counter Terrorism course at
National Police Academy, Hyderabad. Oct 15, 2015. 30+ participants attended.
• Use of Open Source Intelligence and Social Media Analysis. Press Information Bureau, Government
of India . Oct 26 – 30, 2015. 6 officers attended.
• Exploitation of Social Networking Sites for Perception Management. Army War College, Indore. Oct
10, 2015. 45+ officers from 8 – 16 years of experience from all around the country attended.
• Master Trainers’ Program. Staying Safe Online for School Teachers. Co-organized with Central Board
of Secondary Education (CBSE). Oct 7 – 8, 2015. 50+ Teachers from all around Delhi & NCD attended.
• Using Online Social Media for Policing, Intelligence, L&O and Investigation. Three officers from
Government of India. Step 28 – 29, 2015.
• Using Online Social Media for Public Perceptions. Sept 8, 2015. 13+ officers from Press Information
Bureau, Government of India attended.
• Strategies for Safe and E↵ective Use of Online Social Media for School Teachers. Half day workshop.
Organised by Bangalore Sahodaya Schools Complex. Sept 7, 2015. 135+ participants attended.
• Use of Open Source Intelligence and Social Media Analysis. As part of a Counter Terrorism course at
National Police Academy, Hyderabad. Sept 2, 2015. 30+ participants attended.
• Online Social Media & Open Source Intelligence. As part of a Workshop on Cyber Crime Investigation
at North Eastern Police Academy, Meghalaya. Aug 29, 2015. 50+ participants attended.
• Online Social Media & Open Source Intelligence. As part of a Basic course for probationers at North
Eastern Police Academy, Meghalaya. Aug 29, 2015. 150+ participants attended.
 • Social Media Issues & Monitoring. At Intelligence Bureau training institute, New Delhi. Aug 27, 2015.
35+ participants attended.
• Using Online Social Media for Policing, Intelligence, L&O and Investigation. At CBI Academy, Ghazi-
abad. Aug 26, 2015. 35+ participants attended.
• Co-organized a half-day workshop with National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), Government of
India on Impact of Social Media on Public Perception, Public Order and National Security. 22 Aug
2015.
• Staying Safe Online. Delhi Public School, Bengaluru North. July 1, 2015. Half day workshop. In 2
batches, 800 + 400 students attended.
• Using Online Social Media for Policing, Intelligence, and L&O. National Industrial Security Academy
(NISA), Hyderabad. June 19, 2015. Half day session. 65+ officers attended.
• Using Online Social Media for Policing, Intelligence, L&O and Investigation. Mysuru Police. Half day
session. June 5, 2015. 20+ officers attended. Organised by the Commissioner of Police, Mysuru.

SELECTED INVITED TALKS / LECTURES

• #LokSabhaElections2019 A Data Science View. 50th Geek Night Hyderabad. ThoughtWorks, Hyder-
abad. May 8, 2019
• PSG College of Engineering, Coimbatore. Fake content, Manipulated accounts, Scams, Social Media
Risk Communication & #Elections2019. April 26, 2019
• Rishi MS Institute of Engineering and Technology for Women. Social Media Risk Communication &
#Elections2019. April 2, 2019
• Social Media for Central Banking. Reserve Bank Information Technology Private Limited (ReBIT),
Mumbai. March 28, 2019
• #India #Elections2019 #SocialMedia. Social Media & Indian Democracy. National Law University,
Delhi. March 25, 2019
• Ask Me Anything! #AMA Ph.D. Life, What to get out of Ph.D.?... ExOR: Excitement of Research.
IIIT Hyderabad. March 16, 2019
• Seminar on Cybersecurity. SSN Chennai. Social Media Risk Communication & #Elections2019. March
15, 2019
• Security & Privacy of Cyber-Physical Systems. IIIT Jabalpur. Social Media Risk Communication &
#Elections2019. March 8, 2019
• WebScience Symposium. IIT Madras. Social Media Risk Communication & #Elections2019. Feb 26,
2019
• Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), Mumbai. Privacy and Security in Online Social
Media. Feb 5, 2019.
• Saving Lives through Technology. Workshop on AI for Computational Social Science. Feb 2, 2019
• Mini Goa tour covering 3 engineering colleges. BITS Pilani Goa, KLS Gogte Institute of Technology
Belgaum, NIT Goa. 28 – 31 Jan, 2019. Gave talks at all institutes, and a keynote at KLS Gogte.
• B V Raju Institute of Technology (BVRIT) College of Engineering for Women, Hyderabad. Privacy
and Security in Online Social Media. Jan 9, 2019. We also conducted a one day hands-on session on
the topic.
• The Challenges of Cyber Security in the context of National Security. NIA Academy, Delhi Dec 4,
2018
• Power of Studying Computing! Inauguration of ACM Chapter. VNR VJIET, Hyderabad. Oct 24,
2018
• Changing Threat Landscape / Social Computing for Business: Opportunities & Challenges. Honeywell
Technology Solutions. Oct 10, 2018
• IIIT Bangalore. Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. Oct 10, 2018
• As part of the course Privacy in the Digital Age. Privacy that Excites me! IIIT Bengaluru. Oct 9,
2018
• TEDx talk. Saving Lives through Technology. Oct 7, 2018.
• IIT Tirupati. KillFies and Fake Content on Online Social Media. Sept 26, 2018
• KillFies and Fake Conten on Online Social Media. SASAI Institute of Technology & Engineering ACM
Chapter Inauguration. Sept 19, 2018
• Mini Chicago tour covering University of Chicago, University of Illinois Chicago, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Gave talks in all these campuses. 10 – 14 Sept, 2018
• IIT Gandhinagar. Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. Sept 5, 2018
• Using Online Social Media for Law & Order, Intelligence, and Investigation. Telangana State Police
Academy. Aug 31, 2018
• Fake Content, Privacy, Manipulated Accounts on Social Media. IIIT Sri City. Aug 18, 2018
• Mini Tamil Nadu tour covering 6 engineering colleges. College of Engineering Guindy (CEG)/ Chennai,
Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering (SSN) Chennai,
IIT Madras, Thiagarajar College of Engineering - (TCE) Madurai, Kalasaingalam University. 23 – 28
July, 2018.
• India – Hague Cybersecurity Summer School. Hague, Netherlands. Privacy & Security in Online Social
Media. July 12, 2018
• Social Computing for Business: Opportunities & Challenges. Honeywell Technology Solutions June
26, 2018.
• Faculty Development Program. NIT Warangal. Privacy & Security in Online Social Media. June 22,
2018
• Workshop on Women in Cybersecurity Research (WCR‘18). IIITM-K. Privacy & Security in Online
Social Media. May 26, 2018.
• Research With Impact! Zenlabs / Zensar, Hyderabad. May 10, 2019.
• Digital Privacy. NIC, Delhi. April 27, 2018. 50+ physically in Delhi and about 50+ all across the
country, like Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Odissa, Kerala, etc.
• Killfies, Fake content, scams, manipulated accounts on social media. Societal computing Seminar.
Carnegie Mellon University, USA. April 4, 2018. 20+ students / faculty.
• Social Computing. Greater Noida Institute of Technology. March 21, 2018. 200+ students.
• Contemporary Cyber Crime. Part of One-day workshop on Cyber Crime: Awareness and Defense.
Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, New Delhi. March 9, 2018. Chief Guest
• Part of the Panel on Privacy: Reaching All Communities. Part of the Workshop on Privacy & Growth
in a Global Economy, organised by U.S. Department of State, Federal Trade Commission. March 7,
2018. 30+ industry practitioners.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. ACM Distinguished Talk. Part of APOGEE - BITS,
Pilani, 35th edition of the technical fest. BITS Pillani, Rajastan. Feb 22, 2018. 150+ students.
• Fake Content, Scams, Privacy, Manipulated Accounts on Social Media. BITS Pillani, Hyderabad. Feb
16, 2018. 60+ students & faculty.
• Social Complexity & Computing in Online Networks. IIT Hyderabad. Feb 15, 2018. 20+ students &
faculty.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. ACM Distinguished Talk. Bennett University, Noida.
Jan 25, 2018. 60+ students & faculty.
• Privacy Technologies. National Workshop on Privacy organised by CIS India. Dec 13, 2017. 15
participants.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. Webinar on Techgig.com. Dec 1, 2017. 50+ participants.
• Part of the panel on Emerging Technologies for Monitoring and Control of Illegal Cyber Content. 2000+
total delegates from 120+ countries for the Global Conference on Cyberspace GCCS 217. Around 200+
delegates attended the panel. Conference was inaugurated by the Prime Minister of India. Nov 24,
2017
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. ACM Distinguished Talk. Shiv Nadar University, Noida.
Nov 15, 2017. 60+ students & faculty.
• Cybercrime. Mamta Modern School, VikasPuri. Oct 31, 2017. 130+ XI standard students.
• Privacy. Bosch Data Security Officers (DSO) APAC summit 2017, Bengaluru. October 24, 2017. 12+
participants.
• Data Science for Security & Privacy. Part of siNUsoid’17, TechFest at NIIIT University. Sept 28, 2017.
Keynote
• Data Science for Social Good. PyData Delhi 2017. Sept 3, 2017. 150+ participants. Keynote
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. DRDO. As part of Special Training Programme on
Cryptology and Information Security (CIS 2017). Sept 2017. 50+ government of India officials.
• When Selfie Becomes a KillFie. As part of Technical Festival ”MindBent” at ITL Dwaraka School,
Delhi. Aug 4, 2017. 200+ students. Keynote
• Security in Social Media. Accenture Technology Lab. Talk was part of 30 years celebrations of
Accenture. July 24, 2017
• Online Social Media. Philips Research. July 25, 2017. 40+ participants.
• Browser Extensions, Identity Resolution, and Privacy on Online Social Media. Summer School on
Real-world Crypto & Privacy https://summerschool-croatia.cs.ru.nl/2017/ June 11 – 15, 2017. 100+
students.
• Data Science for Security and Privacy. Technology Meetup - Data Analytics. Organised by Sapient,
Gurugram. April 22, 2017. 40+ industry practitioners attended.
• Data Science for Security and Privacy. Raksha Shakti University. April 20, 2017. 100+ students /
faculty attended.
• SNA and OSI Analysis of DRDO: Mechanisms, Impact and Scenario Analysis. DRDO. April 13, 2017.
30+ scientists / officers attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. ACM Distinguished Speaker Lecture. IIIT Allahabad.
April 11, 2017. 60+ students / faculty attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. ACM Distinguished Speaker Lecture. Amrita University.
March 28, 2017. 80+ students / faculty attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. Bosch India, Bengaluru. March 15, 2017. 80+ Bosch
employees attended. Keynote
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. ACM Distinguished Speaker Lecture. S A Engineering
College. March 7, 2017. 50+ students / faculty attended.
• Credibility, Identity Resolution, and Privacy on Online Social Media. DIO National Meet on Grass
root Informatics organized by NIC. Feb 28, 2017. 120+ NIC officers attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. ACM Distinguished Speaker Lecture. Manav Rachna
International University. Feb 22. 60+ students / faculty attended.
• Social Media and Analytics as an Intelligence Tool. Seventeenth International National Security Guard
Seminar, Feb 9, 2017. 200+ officers attended.
• Credibility, Identity Resolution, and Privacy on Online Social Media. At IEEE International Confer-
ence on Computing, Analytics and Security Trends (CAST-2016), College of Engineering Pune. Dec
20, 2016. 100+ participants attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. CAIR DRDO. Dec 15, 2017. 20+ scientists attended.
• Credibility, Identity Resolution, and Privacy on Online Social Media. Indian Institute of Technol-
ogy, Karaghpur (IITKGP). ACM Distinguished Speaker talk. Nov 17, 2016. 30+ students / faculty
attended.
• Credibility, Identity Resolution, and Privacy on Online Social Media. As part of Indo Belarus Bilateral
Workshop on Cyber Security at CDAC Noida. Nov 16, 2016. 30+ delegates attended.
• Research at Precog! Bosch, Bengaluru. Nov 9, 2016.
• Identity Resolution, Privacy, and Policing on Online Social Media. University of Baltimore County
(UMBC), USA. ACM Distinguished Speaker talk. Oct 14, 2016. 15+ participants.
• Research, Education, and Cybersecurity Policies in India. As part of a course Cybersecurity Gover-
nance: A Data-Driven Approach taught by Prof. Virgilio Almeida. Harvard University, USA. Oct 13,
2016.
• Introduction to Cybersecurity. Army HQ, Delhi. As part of a Cyberscecurity course o↵ered by CERC.
Oct 5 - 6, 2016. 20+ participants.
• Online Social Media: Privacy and Security Implications. As part of DWIH Conference: CitySpaces
organized by Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG). Sept 29, 2016. 100+ participants.
• Credibility, Identity Resolution, Privacy, and Policing on Online Social Media. Indian Institute of
Technology, Guwahati (IITG). ACM Distinguished Speaker talk. Sept 24, 2016. 90+ participants.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. International Symposium on Security in Computing and
Communications (SSCC’16), Jaipur, India. 100+ participants. Keynote
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. As part of the course Cryptology and Information
Security (CIS) organised by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Sept 8, 2016.
25+ participants.
• Digital Forces – Social: Research at Precog@IIIT-D, Future Trends, Potential Student Projects. As
part of NPTEL & TCS’s Faculty Development Programme to faculty from various engineering colleges
in India. Sept 7, 2016. 100+ participants.
• Stop-Think-Connect: Past, Present, and Future. As part of Anti Phishing Working Group Symposium,
Bern, Switzerland. Sept 1, 2016. 30+ participants.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. ETH Zurich, Switzerland. July 7, 2016. 30+ participants.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Koln,
Germany. June 28, 2016. 20+ participants.
• Online Social Media: Opportunities, Challenges, and Pitfalls. Summer Workshop on Online Social
Media: Developer’s Perspective at IGDTUW, Delhi. June 6, 2016. 50+ participants. Keynote
• TEDxJuhu. Web 2.0: With Great Online Power Comes Great Responsibility. April 9, 2016. 1000+
participants.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. As part of Workshop on Analysis and Inference from
User Generated Content (WAIU). IISc Bangalore. March 28, 2016. 80+ participants attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. IIIT Hyderabad. March 23, 2016. 80+ participants
attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. Data 61, Australia. Feb 22, 2016. 5+ participants
attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering, New Delhi.
ACM India Eminent Speaker talk. Feb 17, 2016. 100+ participants attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. As part of Academic Research Summit, Pune. Jan 30,
2016. 80+ participants attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. As part of Workshop on Data Analytics & Its Security
Issues. Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, (JIIT). Dec 4, 2015. 80+ participants attended.
• Online Social Media - Opportunities, Pitfalls and Challenges. National Conference of Women Police ?
Looking Ahead. Nov 24, 2015. Kerala Police, Trivandrum. 200+ Women police officers.
• Mitigating Misinformation Spread on Micro-blogging Web Services using TweetCred. Workshop on
Social Media in Communication, Governance and Security, 5 – 6 November 2015, Singapore. 90+
participants attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. ITM University, Gurgaon. ACM India Eminent Speaker
talk. Sept 13, 2015. 180+ participants attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. As part of the a short-term course Cryptology and
Information Security (CIS 2015), organized by Scientific Analysis Group (SAG), Defence Research and
Development Organisation (DRDO), Government of India. Sept 9, 2015. 50+ participants attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. Security and Hacking Conference, C0C0n 2015. Organ-
ised by Kerela Police. Aug 20, 2015. 100+ participants attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. C4: Conference on Cyber Crime Control. Organised by
Mumbai Police. July 28, 2015. 100+ participants attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. IIM Bangalore. As part of their regular seminar series.
July 24, 2015. 5+ participants attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. Infosys Bengaluru. ACM India Eminent Speaker talk.
July 22, 2015. 80+ participants attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)
Bengaluru. ACM India Eminent Speaker talk. July 22, 2015. 20+ participants attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. IBM IRL, Bengaluru. July 21, 2015. 12+ participants
attended.
• Privacy @ ICICI. ICICI Head Quarters, Mumbai. June 26, 2015.
• Research @ Precog. Flipkart, Bengaluru. June 22, 2015.
• Online Social Media Labs. As part of Seminar on “IT Applications in Indian Police”. National Police
Academy, Hyderabad. June 19, 2015. 40+ officers from all round the country attended.
• Safe Technology Usage. G. D. Goenka Public School. As part of National Technology Day, May 11,
2015. 20+ students attended. Through Google Hangout.
• Cybercrime and Phishing. Army HQ, Delhi. As part of a Cyberscecurity course o↵ered by CERC. Feb
20, 2015.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, NOIDA.
ACM India Eminent Speaker talk. March 16, 2015. 140+ participants attended.
• Online Social Media: Opportunities, Pittfals, and Challenges, Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO) Headquarters. 30+ participants. Jan 14, 2015.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT), Coimbatore.
ACM India Eminent Speaker talk. Dec 18, 2014. 120+ participants attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. ACM India
Eminent Speaker talk. Dec 17, 2014. 40+ participants attended.
• Building Usable Secure Systems. International Conference on Secure Knowledge Management in big-
data Era at BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus. Dec 8 – 9, 2014.
• Research work at CERC. Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women (IGDTUW). Sept 25,
2014.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media at a course organized by Defence Research and Develop-
ment Organisation (DRDO). Sept 24, 2014.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. ACM Pune’s Workshop on Cybersecurity. ACM India
Eminent Speaker talk. Sept 13, 2014. 70+ participants attended.
• Conducting high quality research in Cybersecurity. Sardar Patel University of Police, Security, and
Criminal Justice. Sept 2, 2014.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. Thapar University. ACM India Eminent Speaker talk.
March 26, 2014. 120+ participants attended.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media. Data Privacy Symposium organized by TCS in Chennai.
Jan 28, 2014.
• Research at PreCog. UMBC Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, USA. March
11, 2013.
• Privacy in India: Attitudes and Awareness 2.0. Privacy Global Summit organized by International
Association for Privacy Professionals. 6 – 8 March, 2013. Washington DC, USA.
• Research at PreCog. Gave the inaugural talk at the NSIT ACM Chapter, New Delhi. Feb 13, 2013.
• Privacy in India: Attitudes and Awareness V 2.0. First NORHED partner meeting on ‘Networked
Masters and Professional Programmes in Health Information Management in South Asia’ Jan 25 – 26,
2013.
• Research at PreCog. Google Bengaluru. Dec 19, 2012.
• Research at PreCog. EMC Bengaluru. Dec 20, 2012.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, Workshop on Social Computing, IIT Kharagpur. Oct 4,
2012.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, International Workshop on Information Security, BITS
Pilani, Hyderabad campus. Dec 2012.
• Privacy in India: Attitudes and Awareness V 2.0. CSO Summit, Dec 6 – 7, 2012.
• Privacy in India: Attitudes and Awareness V 2.0. Vodafone Privacy Summit, Nov 22, 2012.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Delhi. Part of
the ACM event. July 23, 2012.
• Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, Bell Labs, Ireland. June 27, 2012.
• Research at PreCog, Universit della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Oct 9, 2011.
• Privacy and Security Research at PreCog, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 1, 2011.
• Privacy and Security Research at PreCog, Brazil, July 4, 2011.
• Designing an E↵ective Course Curriculum, Indo-US Workshop on E↵ective Teaching at College /
University Level, Feb 10, 2011.
• Intelligence and Security Informatics, 40th All India Police Science Congress, Raipur, Chhattisgarh,
June 3, 2010.
• Usable Privacy and Security, Information Systems Management Course, IIT-Delhi, April 22, 2010.
• Cyber Crime, ABV Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, Nov 3,
2009.
• Usable Privacy and Security, Refresher course, Delhi University, Nov 26, 2009.
• Usable Privacy and Security, OWASP AppSec India Conference, Nov 17, 2009.
• Teaching Johnny Not to Fall for Phish, (ISC)2 e-symposium, March 17, 2009.
• PhishGuru: A System for Educating Users about Semantic Attacks, Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur, India, Aug 9, 2007.
• Privacy and security research at CMU and around the globe. International Institute of Information
Technology, Pune, India, July 17, 2007.
• PhishGuru: A System for Educating Users about Semantic Attacks, Tata Research Development and
Design Centre (TRDDC), Pune, India, July 11, 2007.
 • PhishGuru: A System for Educating Users about Semantic Attacks, Indian Institute of Technology,
Bombay, India, July 6, 2007.
• International perspective of Cyber Security, Symposium on Cyber Security Awareness, Cyber Security
Research Centre, Chandigarh, May 23, 2007.
• Trust in Phishing. Special Interest Group on Online Trust. Computer Human Interaction (CHI), May
1, 2007.
• Privacy in India. Round table discussion, Mumbai, India, Aug 08, 2006.

SELECTED POSTERS, & PANEL DISCUSSIONS

• Build Trillion Transactions? securing & privacy enabling each of them. 7th Best Practices Meet by
Data Security Council of India. July 10, 2015. Panel discussion.
• Chhaya N., Agarwal D., Puri N., Jain P., Kumaraguru P., and Pai D. EnTwine: Feature Analysis
and Candidate Selection for Social User Identity Aggregation. Accepted at IEEE/ACM International
Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2015). Poster.
• Transformative Impact of Big Data. Integrated Intelligence. Organised by Carnegie Mellon University,
New Delhi, July 4, 2015. Panelists: Prof. Farnam Jahanian, Provost, CMU, Mr. Banmalia Agrawala,
CEO GE, South Asia, Mr. Natarajan Chandrasekaran, CEO TCS, Prof. Gary Fedder, CMU. 150+
participants attended. Panel discussion.
• Sachdeva N. and Kumaraguru P. Deriving Requirements for Social Media based Community policing:
Insights from Police. Dg.o 2015,16th International Digital Government Research Conference. May 27
- 30, 2015. Poster.
• Using Online Social Media for Policing, Intelligence, Law & Order and Investigation. 44th All In-
dia Police Science Congress. Organized by Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D),
Government of India. March 12, 2015. 120+ police officers attended. Panel discussion.
• Status of Cybersecurity in India. Centre of Excellence in Cyber Systems and Information Assurance.
As part of their one year celebration. Feb 6, 2015. Panel discussion.
• Aggarwal, A., and Kumaraguru, P. Followers or Phantoms? An Anatomy of Purchased Twitter Fol-
lowers. XRCI Open, 22 – 23 Jan, 2015. Poster.
• Role of Academics in improving the status of Cybersecurity. One day workshop on Cyber security in
India – New Challenges for CISF. Organised by Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Government
of India. Jan 20, 2015. Panel discussion.
• Aggarwal, A., and Kumaraguru, P. Followers or Phantoms? An Anatomy of Purchased Twitter Fol-
lowers. Security and Privacy Symposium, 14 – 15 Feb, 2015. Poster.
• Gupta, A., Castillo, C., and Kumaraguru, P. TweetCredCrisis: Real-time Assessment of Quality of
Content Posted on Twitter during Crisis Events. Security and Privacy Symposium, 14 – 15 Feb, 2015.
Poster.
• Dewan, P., Kashyap, A., and Kumaraguru, P. Analysing Social and Stylometric Features to Identify
Spearphishing Emails. Security and Privacy Symposium, 14 – 15 Feb, 2015. Poster.
• Sachdeva N. and Kumaraguru P. Police on Facebook: Improving Online Public Communication for
Police and Residents. Security and Privacy Symposium, 14 – 15 Feb, 2015. Poster.
• Dewan, P., and Kumaraguru, P. Spam Identification on Facebook During Events. Conference on Online
Social Networks (COSN), Oct 1 – 2, 2014. Poster.
• Sachdeva, N., Saxena, N., and Kumaraguru, P. On the Viability of CAPTCHAs for Use in Telephony
Systems: A Usability Field Study. In Proceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer
Human Interaction (APCHI ’13). Poster.
• Jain, P., and Kumaraguru, P. Flash of Two Words. Security and Privacy Symposium, IIT Kanpur. 28
Feb – 2 March, 2013. Poster.
 • Mittal, S., Gupta, N., and Kumaraguru, P. Pinterest: Case study on a picturesque network. Security
and Privacy Symposium, IIT Kanpur. 28 Feb – 2 March, 2013. Poster.
• Jain, P. and Kumaraguru, P. Finding Nemo: Entity Search and Resolution in Online Social Networks.
Security and Privacy Symposium, IIT Kanpur. 28 Feb – 2 March, 2013. Poster.
• Dewan, P. Sachdeva, N., and Kumaraguru, P. ChaMAILeon: Usable email sharing like never before!
Security and Privacy Symposium, IIT Kanpur. 28 Feb – 2 March, 2013. Poster.
• Gupta, S., Gupta, M., and Kumaraguru, P. OCEAN: Open source Collation of eGovernment data and
Networks. Security and Privacy Symposium, IIT Kanpur. 28 Feb – 2 March, 2013. Poster.
• Sachdeva, N., and Kumaraguru, P. U2P2: Understanding User Privacy Perceptions. Security and
Privacy Symposium, IIT Kanpur. 28 Feb – 2 March, 2013. Poster.
• Twit-Digest: A Web based Tool to Analyze and Visualize Twitter in Real-time. Gupta, A., Chhabra,
A,. and Kumaraguru, P. I-CARE 2012. Sept 2012. Poster.
• Is Government a Friend or Foe? Privacy in Open Government Data. Authors: Gupta, S., Gupta, M.,
and Kumaraguru, P. I-CARE 2012. Sept 2012. Poster.
• Need for Indo-UK collaboration on security related areas, Indo-UK Security & Identity Roundtable
Conference, ClubHACK, Pune, Dec 7, 2009. Panel discussion.
• Addressing Emerging Disciplines of Security, InfoSec Summit, Delhi, Nov 23, 2009. Panel discussion.
• Cyber Security Framework – Need for a Structured approach, Bangalore Cyber Security Summit, Oct
8, 2009. Panel discussion.
• Digital Media Piracy and Security in a Digital World, Conference and workshop on Cyber Security,
Cyber Crime and Cyber Forensics, Aug 19, 2009. Panel discussion.
• Metrics for Characterizing Research Participants’ Technical Knowledge. In Symposium On Usable
Privacy and Security. July 23 - 25, 2008. Panel discussion.
• Kumaraguru, P., Sheng, S., Acquisti, A., Cranor, L., and Hong, J. Testing PhishGuru in the Real
World. In Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security. July 23 - 25, 2008 (poster ).
• India and Outsourcing. Panel discussion, Privacy Summit, IAPP, Washington DC, March, 2006. Panel
discussion.

SELECTED NEWS
• Our work on Elections 2019 has been covered in more than 10+ publications, prominently in many
of the major news papers in India, including Times of India, Business Standards, and online media
houses like Exchange4Media.
• Our work on WhatsFarzi has been covered in more than 25+ publications, prominently in many of the
major news papers in India, including Times of India, Indian Express. For more on this work, please
search for “WhatsFarzi” on Google.
• Our work on KillFies / Saftie App / Saftie Camera has been covered in more than 400+ publications,
especially in some of the major publications like BBC, Forbes, Time of India, Washington Post, MIT-
TechReview, CNN, etc. It was translated and written in at least 20+ di↵erent languages. In total, this
work on Killfies garnered more than 35,000+ Facebook likes, 1000+ Tweets, 15+ videos on YouTube,
10+ radio interviews, and 2 TV interviews. For more on this work, please search for “KillFies” or
“Selfie Deaths” on Google.
• Residents wade through rumours on social media to find vital info. Dec 2, 2015. Times of India.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Residents-wade-through-rumours-on-social-media-to-
find-vital-info/articleshow/50004136.cms
• Social Media will help police organisations. This was published in multiple news papers in Rachi in
regional language. Nov 20, 2015. Hidustan (page 2), Prabhatkhabar (page 4), Dainik Jagran (page 2).
• Twitter handles, Facebook pages of police departments in a sorry state, Oct 8, 2015. Economic Times.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/twitter-handles-facebook-pages-of-
police-departments-in-a-sorry-state/articleshow/49265208.cms
• Meerut gets 2nd social media lab in country after Mumbai, Aug 21, 2015. Times of India.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/meerut/Meerut-gets-2nd-social-media-
lab-in-country-after-Mumbai/articleshow/48594285.cms
• Stay safe online, July 21, 2015. Live Mint. http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/
Vj5mBeU3thtM8FlrxvsxsO/Stay-safe-online.html
• Watch what you tweet - Indian researchers develop ’credibility’ software, July 9, 2015. The Telegraph.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150709/jsp/nation/story 30553.jsp#.VZ4m2hOqqko
• What makes a tweet believable? July 7, 2015. BBC News. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-
33365782
• Social media a great tool for crime prevention, June 19, 2015. The Hindu. http://www.thehindu.com
/news/cities/bangalore/social-media-a-great-tool-for-crime-prevention/article7331339.ece
• Study on City Police’s Social Media Use Bags US Varsity Award, June 8, 2015. The Economic Times.
http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31815&articlexml=Study-on-City-Polices-Social-
Media-Use-Bags-08062015002035
• Cyber bullying: Nip it in the bud, national edition of Mint. (Centrespread), May 26, 2015.
http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/lpQCFqjgETbXachoWRxysO/Cyber-bullying-Nip-it-in-the-bud.html
• TweetCred got covered on various international media / blogs –
– http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/05/02/
lies-are-everywhere-on-the-internet-but-this-free-tool-could-potentially-fight-them/
– http://www.jrn.com/ktnv/now-trending/TweetCred-aims-to-rate-the-credibility-of-
tweets-258018701.html
– http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/05/can-tweetcred-solve-
twitters-credibility-problem.html
– irevolution.net/2014/04/28/tweetcred-identify-credible-tweets
• Wombat Security Technologies named as Top Tech Company to Watch in Pittsburgh by NEXT Pitts-
burgh http://www.nextpittsburgh.com/features/top-tech-companies-pittsburgh/
• Wombat Security Technologies was Gold Winner of Information Security Product’s Guide ”Tomorrow’s
Technology Today,” Bronze Winner of Information Security Product’s Guide ”New Product Award”
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/wombat-security-technologies-wins-multiple-industry-
awards-accolades-security-awareness-1887496.htm
• In Aug 2013, Wombat was selected as a finalist for startup of the year for the Pittsburgh Technology
Council’s Tech 50 awards!
• In May 2013, Wombat Security named as 2013 Hot Company award winner by Network Products
Guide. http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/-1790538.htm
• India, British experts discuss cyber security, Indian Express, March 26, 2013.
http://newindianexpress.com/nation/article1518154.ece. This article also got published in many other
papers. To know more, Google “India British experts cybersecurity Ponnurangam Kumaraguru”
• Interview on “Privacy status in India and in online social media” in Good Evening India Program on
national DD channel, Jan 8, 2013.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqkdHFRouHU The video has 1065 views, as of Sept 30, 2015
• Finding Nemo Traces the Link Between a Personoalities Various Social Network Identities, Atelier, Jan
22, 2013. http://www.atelier.net/en/trends/articles/finding-nemo-traces-link-between-person-various-
social-network-identities
• “Privacy in India: Attitudes and Awareness V 2.0” http://economictimes
.indiatimes.com/news/international-business/most-indians-ignorant-about-privacy-issues-on-internet
-social-media-study/articleshow/17542954.cms To know more, Google “Privacy india attitudes aware-
ness ponnurangam kumaraguru”
• “Building a Better Truth Machine” on Slate and “Tweets Need A Credibility Rating And This Lie
Detector Algorithm Could Help” on TechCrunch. Dec 2012.
• PreCog’s work in collaboration with Dublin City University was covered on Ireland’s national television
RTE One. June 25, 2012.
• The Workshop on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media that is co-located with WWW 2012
featured on MITs Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/27698/?p1=blogs. April 2012.
• Winter School 2011 was covered in the EDU Tech. April 2012 issue.
http://www.edu-leaders.com/resources/magazinePage no 32 - 34.
• Privacy in India got covered in a Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia pacific/privacy-concerns-grow-in-india
/2012/01/26/gIQAyM0UmQ story.html. Feb 2012
• Crowdsourced software could stop SMS spam, NewScientist, Feb 26, 2011.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20175-crowdsourced-software-could-stop-sms-spam.html. To
know more, please Google “smsassassin ponnurangam kumaraguru”
• Alum Leads E↵orts in India, Carnegie Mellon University , May 11, 2010.
http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/computing/2010/spring/fighting-cyber-crime.shtml
• Teaching Consumers On-Line Safety Easiest When They Take the Bait, Business Wire, Oct 15, 2008.
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20081015006058/en
• Web tool detects something phishy, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Dec 11, 2007.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s 542119.html
• Fighting Phish. Dr. Dobbs Portal, Oct 2, 2007.
http://www.ddj.com/security/202200218
• Coolest Security Tool Ever!, Softpedia, Oct 2, 2007.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Coolest-Security-Tool-Ever-67362.shtml
• Can you spot a phish? Play Carnegie Mellon’s game and see, ComputerWorld, Sep 28, 2007.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9039758
• CMU develops scam-busting online game, C|Net News.com, Sep 28, 2007.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784 3-9787549-7.html?tag=nefd.only
• Fighting Phishing With Fun, Chronicle of Higher Education, Sep 28, 2007.
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2417
• Online Game Helps People Recognize Internet Scams, Science Daily, Sep 28, 2007.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070925110204.htm
• Phishers caught hook, line and sinker, PC Pro, Sep 27, 2007.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/126386/phishers-caught-hook-line-and-sinker.html
• Anti-Phishing Phil Aims to Educate, Digital Trends, Sep 27, 2007.
http://news.digitaltrends.com/news/story/14299/anti-phishing phil aims to educate
• Carnegie Mellon Floats Anti-Phishing Game, PC Magazine, Sep 26, 2007.
http://www.pcmag.co.uk/vnunet/news/2199555/carnegie-mellon-floats-anti
• Fish named Phil helps foil phishers. CBC News, Sep 26, 2007.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/09/26/phil-phish.html
• CMU’s Anti-Phishing Phil helps users identify Internet scams, POP City, Sep 26, 2007.
http://www.popcitymedia.com/timnews/phishing0926.aspx
 • Phishing Game Aims to Teach Online Safety, PCWorld, Sep 19, 2007.
http://blogs.pcworld.com/sta↵blog/archives/005466.html
• The February 2006 issue of the Privacy Journal features a blurb on the Privacy Indexes: A Survey of
Westin‘s Studies, Tech. rep. that I wrote with Dr. Lorrie Cranor.

RESOURCES FROM EXPREINCE

• FAQs - Preparing, Applying and Deciding on Graduate Schools http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/graduate-
school-faqs.html I have many videos, and Facebook live interactions with professors in the US who
have been part of the admissions committee. These videos are on my YouTube channel.
• FAQs. For new faculty in India - Research, Teaching, and Service http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/resources/new-
faculty-faqs.html