Updates
New Our paper Backlinks for Sale: A First Look into Marketplaces Selling Wikipedia Backlinks is accepted to
12th Annual Wiki Workshop (WikiWorkshop 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 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 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. 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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