Hridoy Sankar Dutta, PhD

Name	Current position
Pari Garg	Undergraduate, Deakin University, Australia
Megha Aggarwal	Faculty, O.P. Jindal Global University, India
Abhijit Baruah	Postgraduate, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, India
Bidyasagar Hazarika	Undergraduate, Assam Engineering College, India
Babita Medhi	Undergraduate, Jorhat Engineering College, India

Name	Current position
Subrat Kishore Dutta	PhD scholar, CISPA, Germany
Parth Shah	MS Computer Science, Arizona State University, USA
Prajata Roy	MS Computer Science, New York University, USA
Quincy Taylor	MPhil Advanced Computer Science, University of Cambridge
Amartya Saikia	Senior Project Associate, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India
Suraj Mandal	PhD scholar (PMRF), IIT Kanpur, India
Kulendu Kashyap Chakraborty	Research Assistant, IIT Jodhpur, India

Course	Duration
Identity, Access Management and Physical Security (SIT736)	2024-T1
Analytics for Security and Privacy (SIT719)	2024-T1
Cyber Security Management (SIT763)	2024-T3
Secure Coding (SIT738)	2024-T2
Professional Practice in Information Technology (SIT753)	2024-T2

Research Group CySoc (Cybersecurity and SOCial Systems) lab

Useful links

Blog A Comprehensive Guide for International Visitors to GIFT City, Gandhinagar
Job Preparation (Cyber) Practice Cybersecurity scenarios with responses for your interviews
Job Search (Cyber) Cyber jobs in India

Updates

New I am looking for PhD students and research interns (remote) who are interested to work at the intersection of cybercrime, security and social networks. Please send your updated CV to lab.cysoc@gmail.com.
New Our paper YTCommentVerse: A Multi-Category Multi-Lingual YouTube Comment Corpus is accepted to The 34th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2025).
New Our paper App-solutely Modded: The rift between modded app market operators and original developers is accepted to ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2025).
New Our paper Half-life of Youtube News Videos: Diffusion Dynamics and Predictive Factors is accepted to The 11th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD 2025).
New YT-30M and YT-100K, two large-scale multilingual comment datasets from YouTube are now available on HuggingFace.

About Me

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Cyber Security at Deakin University, GIFT City, India from July 2024. I have the distinction of being one of the first faculty member appointed at an international university's campus in India. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge affiliated with the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre where I worked with Prof. Alice Hutchings and Prof. Ross Anderson. I obtained my Ph.D. (2021) in Computer Science from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi advised by Prof. Tanmoy Chakraborty. I hold a M.Tech (2017) in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur working with the Mobile Computing and Networking Research Group led by Prof. Subrata Nandi and Prof. Sujoy Saha and a B.Tech (2013) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Institute of Science and Technology, Gauhati University. My current research lies in data-driven cybersecurity, social network analysis and web mining.

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