Hridoy Sankar Dutta

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Cybersecurity
Deakin University




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Research Group  CySoc (Cybersecurity and SOCial Systems) lab

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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 Spectral Masking and Interpolation Attack (SMIA): A Black-box Adversarial Attack against Voice Authentication and Anti-Spoofing Systems is accepted to 27th Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (InterSpeech 2026).
New Our paper GONets: A First-Look Into GitHub Organisation Networks is accepted to 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2026).
New Our paper iOSZoo: A Large-Scale Study of Third-Party iOS App Markets is accepted to ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec 2026).
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).

About Me

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Cyber Security at Deakin University 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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