is a group of
researchers who study, analyze, build, and evaluate security and
privacy aspects of complex networked systems (e.g. social web systems
like Twitter, Facebook, and telephone call details). By understanding
and characterizing user perceptions of security and privacy, we are
interested in building secure usable technologies. Our work derives
techniques from Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Mining,
Text Mining, Statistics, Social Science, Public Policy, Human Computer
Interaction, and Psychology.
May, 2013: Paridhi's paper "@I seek 'fb.me': Identifying Users across Multiple Online Social Networks" won the Honorable Mention for the best paper award at #WoLE2013 #WWW2013 Authors: Paridhi, Prof. Anupam Joshi, and PK.
May, 2013: Blog entry by Prateek on MultiOSN.
May, 2013: MultiOSN: Monitoring multiple online social networks during real-world events; now live at http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/tools/beta/multiosnportal/. Technical report. Authors: Prateek, Mayank, Kanika, and PK.
May, 2013: Slides from our talks / demo at WWW 2013. (1) Faking Sandy: Characterizing and Identifying Fake Images on Twitter during Hurricane Sandy, (2) @I seek 'fb.me': Identifying Users across Multiple Online Social Networks, (3) Detection of Spam Tipping Behaviour on Foursquare, (4) uTrack: Track Yourself! Monitoring Information on Online Social Media.
May, 2013: Wombat Security named as "2013 Hot Company" award winner by Network Products Guide.
May, 2013: Our paper "Faking Sandy: Characterizing and Identifying Fake Images on Twitter during Hurricane Sandy" won the Best Paper Award at #psosm2013. Authors: Aditi, Hemank, PK, and Prof. Anupam Joshi.
May, 2013: Paridhi Jain successfully defends her Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam (report).
May, 2013: Rajarshi Chakraborty, Ph.D. candidate from University of Buffalo is currently visiting for 2 weeks! Thanks to National Science Foundation, USA for supporting this collaboration.
May, 2013: Dr. Satyam Mukherjee from Kellogg School of Management, NorthWestern University Evanston, IL, USA will be visiting on May 15, 2013.
May, 2013: Aditi Gupta successfully defends her Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam (report).
May, 2013: Our complete report on Security and Privacy Symposium 2013 available now. Authors: Paridhi Jain, Prof. Sanjeev Aggarwal from IIT Kanpur, and PK.
May, 2013: Our work on Faking Sandy captured by an external blog entry by Kim Stephens and our work on Detecting Communities captured in a blog by Patrick Meier.
Apr, 2013: Our paper "The Paper Slip Should be There: Perceptions of Transaction Receipts in Branchless Banking" gets accepted at Mobile HCI 2013. Authors: Saurabh Panjwani, Mohona Ghosh, Soumya Singh, and PK.
Apr, 2013: PSOSM merges with 5 other workshops to form a new conference focused on Online Social Networks -- ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN). PK on the Technical Advisory Committee. Please consider submitting your work at http://cosn.acm.org.
Apr, 2013: Prof. Maura Conway and Prof. Lisa McInerney from Dublin City University visiting us for 10 days.
Apr, 2013: Our work on Open source Collation of eGovernment data and Networks (OCEAN) was on Hindustan Delhi newspaper today, April 16, 2013 on page 2.
Apr, 2013: Simon Davies's new blog post India takes its first serious step toward privacy regulation – but it may be misguided" refers to our Privacy in India study. He says "A substantial opinion poll published earlier this year..."
Apr, 2013: Simon Davies refers to our privacy report in his interview in Rajya Sabha TV. Look at 16:17 - 25:39.
Apr, 2013: Srishti Gupta's blog entry: Exciting times! Indo-UK workshop on Cyber security.
Apr, 2013: Two graduate students from BITS Pilani, Hyderabad campus visiting us for a week. Thanks Agrima & Krishna.
Mar, 2013: Our video on "What Google Apps Administrators of your accounts at your Organization or University can do with your emails?" #PrivacyZapped.
Mar, 2013: PK co-organized a workshop on cybersecurity at IIIT-Delhi. The workshop got featured in many news articles. Indian Express, and Zee News.
Mar, 2013: Prateek wins best paper award at the National Conference on Advancements in Information, Computer and Communication.
Mar, 2013: PK will be Co-Organizing Indo-UK Workshop on Cybersecurity.
Mar, 2013: Our demo "uTrack: Track Yourself! Monitoring Information on Online Social Media" gets accepted at WWW 2013. Authors: Tiago Magalhães, Prateek Dewan, PK, Raquel Melo-Minardi, and Virgilio Almeida.
Mar, 2013: Our paper "Detection of Spam Tipping Behaviour on Foursquare" gets accepted at Mining Social Network Dynamics. Authors: Anupama Aggarwal, Jussara Almeida and PK.
Mar, 2013: Our paper "@I seek 'fb.me': Identifying Users across Multiple Online Social Networks" gets accepted at 2nd International workshop on Web of Linked Entities Authors: Paridhi Jain, PK, Anupam Joshi.
Mar, 2013: Our paper "Faking Sandy: Characterizing and Identifying Fake Images on Twitter during Hurricane Sandy" gets accepted at 2nd International workshop on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media Authors: Aditi Gupta, Hemank Lamba, PK and Anupam Joshi.
Mar, 2013: Paridhi Jain and Niharika Sachdeva win the Best Student Participation award at #spsymposium13.
Mar, 2013: Srishti Gupta and Mayank Gupta were the winners of the best poster award at #spsymposium13 for their work on OCEAN and Niharika Sachdeva won the second runners-up award for her work on U2P2.
Jan, 2013: PK speaks about Privacy in India on Doordarshan's TV show Good Evening India.
Jan, 2013: Poster acceptance notifications for Security and Privacy Symposium at IIT Kanpur sent to the authors.
Jan, 2013: Our complete Spring 2013 schedule for "Brainstorm - Precog's Reading boulevard" is now available.
Jan, 2013: Our work on Finding Nemo gets featured in an article on Atelier. Jan, 2013: Our Internet Practices Study is now live! Please participate and help us spread. Win prizes! Jan, 2013: OCEAN: Open source Collation of eGovernment data and Networks, goes live! Jan, 2013: New technical report: "Finding Nemo: Searching and Resolving Identities of Users Across Online Social Networks". Authors: Paridhi and PK.Dec, 2012: We will be co-organizing Security and Privacy Symposium at IIT Kanpur.
Dec, 2012: We will be co-organizing the Workshop on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media (PSOSM) for the second time at WWW 2013.
Dec, 2012: Our work on Credibility on Twitter gets mentioned in articles: "Building a Better Truth Machine" on Slate and "Tweets Need A Credibility Rating And This Lie Detector Algorithm Could Help" on TechCrunch. Dec, 2012: Our Privacy in India: Attitudes and Awareness V 2.0 report gets covered in leading newspapers of India. TOI; EconomicTimes; BusinessStandard; DeccanHerald; DeccanChronicle; Asianet; FirstPost. Dec, 2012: The Privacy Advisor, newsletter from IAPP covers our Privacy in India study "Professors Publish Largest To-Date Study on Privacy in India".Nov, 2012: Anupama Aggarwal successfully defended her M.Tech. thesis today!
Nov, 2012: Shivangi blogs about our recent report on Privacy Perceptions in India.
Nov, 2012: Simon Davies (@PrivacySurgeon) blogs about our recent Privacy in India report.
Nov, 2012: Technical Report Released (largest study on privacy perceptions in India): "Privacy in India: Attitudes and Awareness V 2.0"
Nov, 2012: Wombat Security Technologies was a Finalist at the Pittsburgh Tech50 Awards!
