is a group of researchers who build technologies to characterize and predict acts of crime (computer, cyber), and to develop an early warning system that could help policy analysis and law enforcement agencies. We are also interested in building security and privacy systems that are usable, in particular, we focus on systems in the Indian context. Our work derives techniques from Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Mining, Text Mining, Statistics, Social Science, Public Policy, Human Computer Interaction, and Psychology.

May, 2012: Vidushi Chaudhary visists NUS for summer school 2012.

May, 2012: Prachi Jain goes to USC for summer internship.

May, 2012: Arun Jindal goes to Microsoft Research for summer internship.

Apr, 2012: EDU Tech features an article about IPTSE Winter School 2011, conducted by us in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University.

Apr, 2012: Anupama wins Google India Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship 2012! Winners rate was 2.6%.

Apr, 2012: SMSAssassin will be presented as a Demo at MDM 2012. If you are attending MDM, please stop-by to take a look at the demo.

Apr, 2012: Our PSOSM 2012 worksop featured in MIT Technology Review.

Mar, 2012: Poster by students of the group 'Privacy in Open Government Data' wins best poster award in the research category at RS'12.

Mar, 2012: Four posters by students of our group will be showcased at RS'12. This is work done as part of the group.

Mar, 2012: Our blog goes live!

Mar, 2012: Niharika Sachdeva receives TCS Ph.D. research fellowship to work on usable security.

Mar, 2012: Aditi Gupta's paper titled Credibility Ranking of Tweets during High Impact Events gets accepted at PSOSM 2012.

Mar, 2012: Siddhartha Asthana's paper titled Tring! Tring! - An Exploration and Analysis of Interactive Voice Response Systems gets accepted at IndiaHCI 2012.

Mar, 2012: Accepted papers for PSOSM 2012 now online!

Mar, 2012: Rohit Khot, a recent graduate from IIIT-Hyderabad joins the group as a Research Associate.

Feb, 2012: SmartTalk: Alumni, Sidharth Chhabra, Ph.D. student at University of Michigan on Feb 28.

Feb, 2012: SmartTalk: Alumni Sunil Ghai giving a SmartTalk on Occupancy Detection in Commercial Buildings using Opportunistic Context Sources on Feb 17.

Feb, 2012: Prateek Dewan joins us as a Ph.D. scholar.

Feb, 2012: PhishAri is now available as a Chrome extension! Please download, use it, and spread it!

Feb, 2012: Our work on Privacy got covered by The Washington Post!

Jan, 2012: Two of our Ph.D. students (Aditi Gupta and Paridhi Jain) are now visiting Ebiquity, UMBC, USA.

Jan, 2012: Two Masters students (Luam Catão and Tiago Rodrigues) from UFMG, Brazil visiting us for the next 2 months.

Dec, 2011: Three great news to share: 1. Niharika Sachdeva joins us as a Ph.D. scholar; 2. Kuldeep Yadav receives NVIDIA academic grant; 3. Siddhartha Asthana receives TCS Ph.D. fellowship.

Nov, 2011: The website for WWW worksop PSOSM 2012 is LIVE now!

Nov, 2011: We will co-organize (with Prof. Virgilio Almeida, UFMG, Brazil) the workshop Privacy and Security in Online Social Media (PSOSM) at WWW, 2012. Stay tuned for details!

Nov, 2011: Kanika Narang gets a job offer.

Oct, 2011: Hemank Lamba gets a job offer.

Oct, 2011: Manasi Sachdeva gets a job offer.