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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15 Aug 2025
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.
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15 Aug 2025
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
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15 Aug 2025
📢: 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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10 Aug 2025
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.
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15 Jun 2025
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
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1 Jun 2025
Today on the "AI-writes, AI-reviews" news : intology.ai/blog/zochi-acl
Title "Zochi Achieves Main Conference Acceptance at ACL 2025" @aclmeeting Wow!
Zochi Publishes A* Paper
Intology is a research lab automating the process of discovery.
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26 Nov 2024
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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10 Oct 2024
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
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9 Oct 2024
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
ALT This image features a collage of 10 images that display researchers interacting at a conference, engaging in conversation, giving talks, and posing for pictures. There is text that reads "GARA Winners are live at goo.gle/GARA".
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7 Oct 2024
📢 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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1 Oct 2024
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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1 Oct 2024
#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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13 Aug 2024
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
11 Jun 2024
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]
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13 Aug 2024
📢: 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…
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13 Aug 2024
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
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13 Aug 2024
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
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31 Jul 2024
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…)
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17 Jul 2024
The little (algae) engines that could
16 Jul 2024
A green alga cell can swim 100 microns per second.
Scientists put little baskets on a wheel. As algae became trapped, they pushed and spun the wheel around.
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15 Jul 2024
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)
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15 Jul 2024
And here is a recursive python code to generate the pairs with a prime as sum given n.
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15 Jul 2024
Question I am wondering now: What is the minimum complexity of the algorithm to find such partitions?
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