Faculty of Computer Science @IITKgp. Usable security & privacy. Tinkering with systems. Data science. Social media. he/him/his.
Joined August 2016
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In this work we collected tens of millions of issues from Github repositories.
We identified that there are _lot_ of security issues reported by users in repositories which are never tagged as security issues.
We ended up analyzing millions of security issues in the wild and uncover the reasons of why (or why not) the issues get resolved.
Check out paper to know more (and download all of our models, code and data): zenodo.org/records/15614029
📢: Rajdeep Ghosh (@Rajdeep57931085), PhD student at @IITKgp today presented our paper on understanding how npm developers handle security issues at @USENIXSecurity today.
code, data, models: zenodo.org/records/15614029
Paper: usenix.org/conference/usenix…
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Very excited to be in Seattle for attending @SOUPSConference and @USENIXSecurity for the next week.
Both of them have an awesome program and Seattle is beautiful (my first time in emerald city). Looking forward to a very productive week.
Pics: Soup, Seattle, Skyline.
Starting tomorrow for the next two weeks I am quite excited to be in Germany. I am really looking forward to meet a lot of awesome researchers and brainstorm. Schedule so far:
Bochum -> Kaiserslautern -> Dagstuhl
Please let me know if you are around. Would love to catch up
Today on the "AI-writes, AI-reviews" news : intology.ai/blog/zochi-acl
Title "Zochi Achieves Main Conference Acceptance at ACL 2025" @aclmeeting Wow!
My interview with IIT Bombay trust lab just is just out.
They did a beautiful job of systematically capturing tales from my past, current and future journey while understanding human factors in digital security.
Thanks @IITBTrustLab !
trustlab.iitb.ac.in/trust-ma…
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We (human-centered security and privacy group at @maxplanckpress #MPI_SP) are hiring interns to start anytime in 2025! Applications are due on Nov. 1, 2024. If interested, submit an application to the central portal (cis.mpg.de/internships/) and email me a quick note after. 1/3
Thanks @GoogleAI for awarding me and @yixinzouu a Google Academic Research Award.
We will work to design tech for defending emerging adults from scams on platforms like TikTok where content sometimes gets a bit undeserved trust.
Thanks for the support @maxplanckpress, @IITKgp
Help us congratulate the Google Academic Research Awards (GARA) winners. The program will support 95 projects led by 143 researchers that use tech to shape a better future across the globe. Check out the inaugural GARA winners →goo.gle/gara
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📢 I am seeking candidates interested in applying for a Tenured Research Position @Inria to join my team!
The interested candidate must reach out and express their interest before the end of October 2024.
👉 More info here: www-sop.inria.fr/members/Nat…
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A surprising & little-known results in classical statistics:
mean (μ) and median (m) are within one std deviation:
|μ−m| ≤ σ
For unimodal densities, bound is even tighter
|μ−m| ≤ 0.7746 σ
This beautiful results first appeared in a 1932 paper by Hotelling & Solomons
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#CornellTech congratulates Associate Professor Nicola Dell on being awarded a 2024 MacArthur Foundation #fellowship for her work developing tech interventions to address the needs of overlooked populations. Congrats, Nicki! tech.cornell.edu/news/cornel…
@macfound @Cornell #MacFellow
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Check out the video recording from the Web3 Randomness workshop youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
w/ organized with @pratyaycrypto and @SUPRA_Labs
I learned a lot to learn from this workshop. Lots of open problems for researchers!
special thanks to all speakers and attendees
@kostascrypto @josephbonnea @BhushanVishwas @sherricuono @alinush @sourav1547 @guruvamsip @PratikS64535369 @akhilsai2712 @_hermitsage_ @JockinVC @SpeculatorAr @YKondi @JockinVC Sriram Sridhar, (Berkeley), Jacob Gorman (@SUPRA_Labs), Patrick McClurg (@protocollabs), Jia Liu (Enya labs), Ke Wu (kewucs.com/), Luis Brandao (NIST), and @donbeaver
Web3 Randomness Workshop Announcement: hub.supra.com/3rand
When: (next week) June 18 & 19, 2024 | 9AM-1PM ET
Where: (online & free)
What: talks & panels on the latest academic/industrial development for verifiable randomness for Web3/blockchain [1/4]
📢: I will present our paper on VPN app switching at @USENIXSecurity on Friday. @rrohit2901 , an undergrad, made this work possible (he could not travel due to visa issue).
🗓 Friday, 16 August, 1:15-2:15 pm
📍Track 1, Salon AB, @USENIXSecurity
🔗usenix.org/conference/usenix…
Now that I am sort of out of jet lag and done with first day of SOUPS 2024 ...
(switching to chirpy voice) --- I am excited to be in Philly till end of this week to attend @SOUPSConference and @USENIXSecurity . Let me know if you are around, I would love catch up :) #soups2024
We had a great first day at @SOUPSConference with talk sessions, SOUPS history from @lorrietweet , retrospective panel and a celebration of 20 years of SOUPS!
Looking forward to the second day! It is amazing to see so many inspiring people and works around. #soups2024
It seems that the lack of deletion privacy is plaguing Github now: trufflesecurity.com/blog/any…
Actually this is a persistent privacy problem of archival systems (here is our Usenix Security'22 paper defining deletion privacy: usenix.org/conference/usenix…)
I saw this intriguing number theory problem in Twitter and solved it with basic principles. Posting here if you are in need of a brain teaser. (my solution is in this thread)
