Op-Eds, Columns, Opinions, Correspondence
- "Addressing the harms of AI-generated inauthentic content,"
Filippo Menczer, David Crandall, Yong-Yeol Ahn, and Apu Kapadia,
Correspondence in Nature Machine Intelligence, vol 5, no. 7, pp 679–680 (2023).
- "Can Facebook's smart glasses be smart about security and privacy?,"
Apu Kapadia
The Conversation, Oct 2021.
- "Could Apple's child safety feature backfire? New research shows warnings can increase risky sharing,"
Bennett Bertenthal, Apu Kapadia, and Kurt Hugenberg,
The Conversation, Sep 2021.
Journal and Magazine Articles
- Aaron Necaise, Tangila Islam Tanni, Aneka Williams, Yan Solihin, Apu Kapadia, and Mary Jean Amon,
"User Preferences for Interdependent Privacy Preservation Strategies in Social Media,"
In Proceedings of the ACM Journal: Human-Computer Interaction: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (PACM '23/CSCW '23),
Volume 7, Issue CSCW2, Article 271, 30 pages (October 2023).
- Mary Jean Amon, Aaron Necaise, Nika Kartvelishvili, Aneka Williams, Yan Solihin, and Apu Kapadia,
"Modeling User Characteristics Associated with Interdependent Privacy Perceptions on Social Media,"
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM TOCHI),
Vol. 30, Issue 3, Article 40, 32 pages (June 2023).
- Sruti Bhagavatula, Lujo Bauer, and Apu Kapadia,
"Adulthood is trying each of the same six passwords that you use for everything": The Scarcity and Ambiguity of Security Advice on Social Media,"
In Proceedings of the ACM Journal: Human-Computer Interaction: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (PACM '22/CSCW '22),
Vol. 6, Issue CSCW2, Article 254, 27 pages (November 2022).
- Sabid Bin Habib Pias, Imtiaz Ahmad, Taslima Akter, Apu Kapadia, and Adam J. Lee,
"Decaying Photos for Enhanced Privacy: User Perceptions Towards Temporal Redactions and 'Trusted' Platforms,"
In Proceedings of the ACM Journal: Human-Computer Interaction: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (PACM '22/CSCW '22),
Vol. 6, Issue CSCW2, Article 437, 30 pages (November 2022).
- Imtiaz Ahmad, Taslima Akter, Zachary Buher, Rosta Farzan, Apu Kapadia, and Adam J. Lee,
"Tangible Privacy for Smart Voice Assistants: Bystanders’ Perceptions of Physical Device Controls,"
In Proceedings of the ACM Journal: Human-Computer Interaction: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (PACM '22/CSCW '22),
Vol. 6, Issue CSCW2, Article 364, 31 pages (November 2022).
- Mary Jean Amon, Nika Kartvelishvili, Bennett I. Bertenthal, Kurt Hugenberg, and Apu Kapadia,
"Sharenting and children's privacy: Parenting style, practices, and perspectives on sharing young children's photos on social media,"
In Proceedings of the ACM Journal: Human-Computer Interaction: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (PACM '22/CSCW '22),
Vol. 6, Issue CSCW1, Article 116, 30 pages (April 2022).
- Taslima Akter, Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, and Manohar Swaminathan,
"Shared Privacy Concerns of the Visually Impaired and Sighted Bystanders with Camera Based Assistive Technologies,"
ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS '22),
Vol. 15, Issue 2, Article 11, 33 pages (May 2022).
- Sruti Bhagavatula, Lujo Bauer, and Apu Kapadia,
"(How) Do people change their passwords after a breach?,
USENIX ;login:, December 2021.
- Sanchari Das, Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, and Sameer Patil,
"Does This Photo Make Me Look Good? How Posters, Outsiders, and Friends Evaluate Social Media Photo Posts,"
Proceedings of the ACM Journal: Human-Computer Interaction: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (PACM '21/CSCW '21),
Vol. 5, Issue CSCW1, Article 46, 32 pages (April 2021).
- Yuchen Liu, Ziyu Xiang, Eun Ji Seong, Apu Kapadia, and Donald S. Williamson,
"Defending Against Microphone-Based Attacks with Personalized Noise,"
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs '21/PETS '21),
Vol. 2021, No. 2, pp. 130–150 (April 2021).
- Imtiaz Ahmad, Rosta Farzan, Apu Kapadia, and Adam J. Lee,
"Tangible Privacy: Towards User-Centric Sensor Designs for Bystander Privacy,"
Proceedings of the ACM Journal: Human-Computer Interaction: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (PACM '20/CSCW '20),
Vol. 4, Issue CSCW2, Article 116, 28 pages (October 2020).
- Roberto Hoyle, Luke Stark, Qatrunnada Ismail, David Crandall, Apu Kapadia, and Denise Anthony,
"Privacy Norms and Preferences for Photos Posted Online,"
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM TOCHI),
Vol. 27, No. 4, 27 pages, (August 2020).
- Adam J. Lee, Rosta Farzan, Apu Kapadia, and Imtiaz Ahmad,
"Making Sense of Risk in an Increasingly Cyber‐physical World,"
Critical Quarterly,
Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 40–48, 2020.
- Yasmeen Rashidi, Apu Kapadia, Christena Nippert-Eng, and Norman Makoto Su,
""It's easier than causing confrontation": Sanctioning Strategies to Maintain Social Norms of Content Sharing and Privacy on Social Media,"
Proceedings of the ACM Journal: Human-Computer Interaction: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (PACM '20/CSCW '20),
Vol. 4, Issue CSCW1, Article 23, 25 pages (May 2020).
- Anne Groggel, Shirin Nilizadeh, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Apu Kapadia, and Fabio Rojas,
"Race and the beauty premium: Mechanical Turk workers’ evaluations of Twitter accounts,"
Information, Communication & Society,
Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 709–716, (March 2019).
- Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, Venkatesh Potluri, and Manohar Swaminathan,
"Up to a Limit? Privacy Concerns of Bystanders and Their Willingness to Share Additional Information with Visually Impaired Users of Assistive Technologies",
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT '18/UbiComp '18),
Vol. 2, No. 3, Article 89, 27 pages (September 2018).
- Bryan Dosono, Yasmeen Rashidi, Taslima Akter, Bryan Semaan, and Apu Kapadia,
"Challenges in Transitioning from Civil to Military Culture: Hyper-Selective Disclosure through ICTs",
Proceedings of the ACM Journal: Human-Computer Interaction: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (PACM '17/CSCW '18),
Vol. 1, Issue CSCW, Article 41, 23 pages (November 2017).
- Qatrunnada Ismail, Tousif Ahmed, Kelly Caine, Apu Kapadia, and Michael Reiter,
"To Permit or Not to Permit, That is the Usability Question: Crowdsourcing Mobile Apps’ Privacy Permission Settings,"
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs '17),
Vol. 2017, No. 4, pp. 119–137 (October 2017).
- Tousif Ahmed, Roberto Hoyle, Patrick Shaffer, Kay Connelly, David Crandall, and Apu Kapadia,
"Understanding Physical Safety, Security, and Privacy Concerns of People with Visual Impairments,"
IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Usable Security
Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 56–63 (May/June 2017).
- Minho Shin, Cory Cornelius, Apu Kapadia, Nikos Triandopoulos, and David Kotz,
"Location Privacy for Mobile Crowd Sensing through Population Mapping,"
Sensors,
Vol 15, Issue 7, pp. 15285–15310 (June 2015).
- Ruj Akavipat, Mahdi N. Al-Ameen, Apu Kapadia, Zahid Rahman, Roman Schlegel, and Matthew Wright,
"ReDS: A Framework for
Reputation-Enhanced DHTs",
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS),
Volume 25, Issue 2, pp. 321–331 (February 2014).
Available as an IEEE online preprint, 2013
- Man Ho Au, Patrick P. Tsang, and Apu Kapadia,
"PEREA: Practical TTP-Free Revocation of Repeatedly Misbehaving Anonymous Users,"
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (ACM TISSEC),
Volume 14, Issue 4, Article 29, 34 pages (December 2011).
(Extends our CCS '08 conference paper, which was Runner-up for PET Award 2009: Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies)
- Patrick P. Tsang, Apu Kapadia, Cory Cornelius, and Sean W. Smith,
"Nymble: Blocking Misbehaving Users in Anonymizing Networks,"
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC),
Volume 8, Number 2, pp. 256–269 (March–April 2011).
- Minho Shin, Cory Cornelius, Dan Peebles, Apu Kapadia, David Kotz, and Nikos Triandopoulos,
"AnonySense: A System for Anonymous Opportunistic Sensing,"
Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC),
Volume 7, Issue 1, pp. 16–30 (February 2011).
- Patrick P. Tsang, Man Ho Au, Apu Kapadia and Sean W. Smith,
"BLAC: Revoking Repeatedly Misbehaving Anonymous Users Without Relying on TTPs,"
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (ACM TISSEC),
Volume 13, Issue 4, Article 39, 33 pages (December 2010).
(Extends our CCS '07 conference paper, which was Runner-up for PET Award 2009: Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies)
- Annette C. Feng, Apu C. Kapadia, Wu-chun Feng, and Geneva G. Belford,
"Packet Spacing: An Enabling Mechanism for Delivering Multimedia Content in Computational Grids,"
The Journal of Supercomputing (JSC),
23(1):51–66 (August 2002).
Conference and Workshop Papers
- Sabid Bin Habib Pias, Ran Huang, Donald S. Williamson, Minjeong Kim, and Apu Kapadia,
"The Impact of Perceived Tone, Age, and Gender on Voice Assistant Persuasiveness in the Context of Product Recommendations,"
In Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '24), Article 20, 15 pages, New York, NY, USA, July 2024.
Best Paper Award
- Taslima Akter, Manohar Swaminathan, and Apu Kapadia,
"Toward Effective Communication of AI-Based Decisions in Assistive Tools: Conveying Confidence or Doubt to People with Visual Impairments at Accelerated Speech,"
In Proceedings of the 21st International Web for All Conference (W4A '24), to appear,
Singapore, May 2024.
Best Paper Candidate
- Sophie Stephenson, Christopher Nathaniel Page, Miranda Wei, Apu Kapadia, and Franziska Roesner,
"Sharenting on TikTok: Exploring Parental Sharing Behaviors and the Discourse Around Children's Online Privacy,"
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24),
Article 114,17 pages, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 2024.
- Sabid Bin Habib Pias, Alicia Freel, Timothy Trammel, Taslima Akter, Donald Williamson, Apu Kapadia,
"The Drawback of Insight: Detailed Explanations Can Reduce Agreement with XAI,"
ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI '24),
5 pages, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 2024.
- Alicia Freel, Sabid Bin Habib Pias, Selma Sabanovic and Apu Kapadia,
"Navigating Trust Dynamics in Human-AI Collaboration: Unpacking the Impact of Severity and Timing of Misclassifications,"
ACM CHI 2024 Workshop Trust and Reliance in Evolving Human-AI Workflows (TREW '24),
10 pages, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 2024.
- Christine Chen, Ben Malone, Kendrick Mernitz, Christopher Page, Apu Kapadia, and Arun Balaji Buduru,
"Exploring ChatGPT’s ability to detect privacy violations in photo sharing,"
ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Generative AI and HCI (GenAICHI '24),
5 pages, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 2024.
- Renita Washburn, Tangila Islam Tanni, Yan Solihin, Apu Kapadia, Mary Jean Amon,
"Bottom-up Psychosocial Interventions for Interdependent Privacy: Effectiveness Based on Individual and Content Differences,"
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23),
Article 188, 20 pages, Hamburg, Germany, April 2023.
- Yuchen Liu, Apu Kapadia, and Donald S. Williamson,
"Preventing sensitive-word recognition using self-supervised learning to preserve user-privacy for automatic speech recognition,"
In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech '22), pp. 4207–4211, 2022. September 18–22, 2022.
- Rakibul Hasan, Cristobal Cheyre, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Roberto Hoyle, and Apu Kapadia,
"The Impact of Viral Posts on Visibility and Behavior: A Longitudinal Study of Scientists on Twitter,"
In Proceedings of The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM '22), 16(1),
pp. 323–334, Atlanta, GA, June 6–9, 2022.
- Sruti Bhagavatula, Lujo Bauer, and Apu Kapadia,
"What breach? Measuring online awareness of security incidents by studying real-world browsing behavior,"
In Proceedings of the 2021 European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC '21), pp. 180–199, October 2021.
- Cheng Guo, Brianne Campbell, Apu Kapadia, Michael K. Reiter, and Kelly Caine,
"Effect of Mood, Location, Trust, and Presence of Others on Video-Based Social Authentication,"
In Proceedings of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '21),
pp. 1–18, August 11–13, 2021.
- Rakibul Hasan, Bennett I. Bertenthal, Kurt Hugenberg, and Apu Kapadia,
"Your Photo is so Funny that I don’t Mind Violating Your Privacy by Sharing it: Effects of Individual Humor Styles on Online Photo-sharing Behaviors,"
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21),
Article 556, 14 pages, Yokohama, Japan, May 2021.
-
Taslima Akter, Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, and Manohar Swaminathan,
"Privacy Considerations of the Visually Impaired with Camera Based Assistive Technologies: Misrepresentation, Impropriety, and Fairness,"
In Proceedings of The 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '20),
Article 32, 14 pages, Athens, Greece, October 2020.
-
Taslima Akter, Bryan Dosono, Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, and Bryan Semaan,
""I am uncomfortable sharing what I can't see": Privacy Concerns of the Visually Impaired with Camera Based Assistive Applications,"
In the Proceedings of 29th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '20),
pp. 1929–1948, Boston, USA, August 2020.
- Sruti Bhagavatula, Lujo Bauer, and Apu Kapadia,
"(How) Do people change their passwords after a breach?,"
Proceedings of Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro ’20),
San Francisco, USA, May 2020.
- Rakibul Hasan, David Crandall, Mario Fritz, and Apu Kapadia,
"Automatically Detecting Bystanders in Photos to Reduce Privacy Risks,"
In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (IEEE S&P/Oakland '20),
Volume 1, pp. 318–335, San Francisco, USA, May 2020.
Runner-up for the 2020 CNIL-Inria Award for Privacy Protection
-
Mary Jean Amon, Rakibul Hasan, Kurt Hugenberg, Bennett I. Bertenthal, and Apu Kapadia,
"Influencing Photo Sharing Decisions on Social Media: A Case of Paradoxical Findings,"
In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (IEEE S&P/Oakland '20),
Volume 1, pp. 1350–1366, San Francisco, USA, May 2020.
- Tousif Ahmed, Rakibul Hasan, Kay Connelly, David Crandall, and Apu Kapadia,
"Conveying Situational Information to People with Visual Impairments,"
In Proceedings of CHI 2019 Workshop on Addressing the Challenges of Situationally-Induced Impairments and Disabilities in Mobile Interaction (SIID '19),
May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, UK.
- Rakibul Hasan, Yifang Li, Eman Hassan, Kelly Caine, David J. Crandall, Roberto Hoyle, and Apu Kapadia,
"Can Privacy Be Satisfying? On Improving Viewer Satisfaction for Privacy-Enhanced Photos Using Aesthetic Transforms,"
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19),
Paper 367, 13 pages, Glasgow, UK, May 4–9, 2019.
- Yasmeen Rashidi, Tousif Ahmed, Felicia Patel, Emily Fath, Apu Kapadia, Christena Nippert-Eng, and Norman Makoto Su,
"You don't want to be the next meme": College Students' Workarounds to Manage Privacy in the Era of Pervasive Photography,"
In Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS '18),
pp. 143–157, Baltimore, Maryland, August 12–14, 2018.
( bibtex)( usenix)
- Rakibul Hasan, Eman Hassan, Yifang Li, Kelly Caine, David J. Crandall, Roberto Hoyle, and Apu Kapadia,
"Viewer Experience of Obscuring Scene Elements in Photos to Enhance Privacy,"
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18),
pp. 47:1–47:13, Montréal, Canada, April 21–26, 2018.
- Eman Hassan, Rakibul Hasan, Patrick Shaffer, David Crandall, and Apu Kapadia,
"Cartooning for Enhanced Privacy in Lifelogging and Streaming Video,"
In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop on Computer Vision Challenges and Opportunities for Privacy and Security (CV-COPS '17),
pp. 29–38, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 21, 2017.
- Roberto Hoyle, Srijita Das, Apu Kapadia, Adam Lee, and Kami Vaniea,
"Was my message read?: Privacy and Signaling on Facebook Messenger,"
In Proceedings of The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17),
pp. 3838–3842, Denver, CO, USA, May 6–11, 2017.
- Roberto Hoyle, Srijita Das, Apu Kapadia, Adam Lee, and Kami Vaniea,
"Viewing the Viewers: Publishers' Desires and Viewers' Privacy Concerns in Social Networks,"
In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '17),
pp. 555–566, Portland, OR, USA, Feb 25–Mar 1, 2017.
- Tousif Ahmed, Patrick Shaffer, Kay Connelly, David Crandall, and Apu Kapadia,
"Addressing Physical Safety, Security, and Privacy for People with Visual Impairments,"
In Proceedings of the Twelfth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS '16),
pp. 341–354, Denver, CO, USA, Jun 22–24, 2016.
- Shirin Nilizadeh, Anne Groggel, Peter Lista, Srijita Das, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Apu Kapadia, and Fabio Rojas,
"Twitter's Glass Ceiling: The Effect of Perceived Gender on Online Visibility,"
In Proceedings of The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM '16),
pp. 289–298, Cologne, Germany, May 17–20, 2016.
- Mohammed Korayem, Robert Templeman, Dennis Chen, David Crandall, and Apu Kapadia,
"Enhancing Lifelogging Privacy by Detecting Screens,"
In Proceedings of The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16)
pp. 4309–4314, San Jose, CA, USA, May 7–12, 2016.
Honorable Mention Award (Top 4% of Submissions)
- Zheng Dong, Apu Kapadia, Jim Blythe, L. Jean Camp,
"Beyond the lock icon: real-time detection of phishing websites using public key certificates,"
In Proceedings of APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime '15)
pp. 1–12, May 26–29, 2015.
Honorable Mention Award
- Tousif Ahmed, Roberto Hoyle, Kay Connelly, David Crandall, and Apu Kapadia,
"Privacy Concerns and Behaviors of People with Visual Impairments,"
In Proceedings of The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15),
pp. 3523–3532, Seoul, South Korea, April 18–23, 2015.
- Qatrunnada Ismail, Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, and Michael K. Reiter,
"Crowdsourced Exploration of Security Configurations,"
In Proceedings of The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15),
pp. 467–476, Seoul, South Korea, April 18–23, 2015.
- Roberto Hoyle, Robert Templeman, Denise Anthony, David Crandall, and Apu Kapadia,
"Sensitive Lifelogs: A Privacy Analysis of Photos from Wearable Cameras,"
In Proceedings of The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15),
pp. 1645–1648, Seoul, South Korea, April 18–23, 2015.
- Sameer Patil, Roberto Hoyle, Roman Schlegel, Apu Kapadia, and Adam Lee,
"Interrupt Now or Inform Later?: Comparing Immediate and Delayed Privacy Feedback,"
In Proceedings of The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15),
pp. 1415–1418, Seoul, South Korea, April 18–23, 2015.
- Shirin Nilizadeh, Apu Kapadia, and Yong-Yeol Ahn,
"Community-Enhanced De-anonymization of Online Social Networks,"
In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’14),
pp. 537–548, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, November 3–7, 2014.
- Robert Templeman, Roberto Hoyle, Apu Kapadia, and David Crandall,
"Reactive Security: Responding to Visual Stimuli from Wearable Cameras,"
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Usable Privacy & Security for wearable and domestic ubIquitous DEvices (UPSIDE ’14),
pp. 1297–1306, Seattle, WA, USA, Sep 14, 2014.
- Roberto Hoyle, Robert Templeman, Steven Armes, Denise Anthony, David Crandall, and Apu Kapadia,
"Privacy Behaviors of Lifeloggers using Wearable Cameras,"
In Proceedings of The ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '14),
pp. 571–582, Seattle, WA, USA, September 13–17, 2014.
- Luke Hutton, Tristan Henderson, and Apu Kapadia,
"Short Paper: "Here I am, now pay me!": Privacy Concerns in Incentivised Location-Sharing Systems,"
In Proceedings of The 7th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec '14),
pp. 81–86, Oxford, UK, July 23–25, 2014.
- Sameer Patil, Roman Schlegel, Apu Kapadia, and Adam J. Lee,
"Reflection or Action?: How Feedback and Control Affect Location Sharing Decisions,"
In Proceedings of The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’14),
pp. 101–110, Toronto, Canada, April 26–May 1, 2014.
- Robert Templeman, Mohammed Korayem, David Crandall, and Apu Kapadia,
"PlaceAvoider: Steering First-Person Cameras away from Sensitive Spaces,"
In Proceedings of The 21st Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '14),
San Diego, CA, February 23–26, 2014.
- Vaibhav Garg, Sameer Patil, Apu Kapadia, and L. Jean Camp,
"Peer-produced Privacy Protection,"
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS '13),
pp. 147–154, Toronto, Canada, June 27–29, 2013.
- Robert Templeman, Zahid Rahman, David Crandall, and Apu Kapadia,
"PlaceRaider: Virtual Theft in Physical Spaces with Smartphones,"
In Proceedings of The 20th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '13),
San Diego, CA, February 24–27, 2013.
MIT Technology Review arXiv Blog’s “Best of 2012″
- Shirin Nilizadeh, Sonia Jahid, Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov, and Apu Kapadia,
"Cachet: A Decentralized Architecture for Privacy Preserving Social Networking with Caching,"
In Proceedings of The 8th ACM International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (CoNEXT '12),
pp. 337–348, Nice, France, December 10–13, 2012.
- Man Ho Au and Apu Kapadia,
"PERM: Practical Reputation-Based Blacklisting without TTPs,"
In Proceedings of The 19th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS '12),
pp. 929–940, Raleigh, NC, October 16–18, 2012.
- Zheng Dong, Vaibhav Garg, Jean Camp, and Apu Kapadia,
"Pools, Clubs and Security: Designing for a Party Not a Person,"
In Proceedings of The New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW '12),
pp. 77–86, Bertinoro, Italy, September 19–21, 2012.
- Robert Templeman and Apu Kapadia,
"GANGRENE: Exploring the Mortality of Flash Memory,"
In Proceedings of The 7th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec '12),
Bellevue, WA, August 7, 2012.
- Sameer Patil, Greg Norcie, Apu Kapadia, and Adam J. Lee,
"Reasons, Rewards, Regrets: Privacy Considerations in Location Sharing as an Interactive Practice,"
In Proceedings of The Eighth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS '12),
Article 5, 15 pages, Washington DC, July 11–13, 2012.
- Yann Le Gall, Adam J. Lee, and Apu Kapadia,
"PlexC: A Policy Language for Exposure Control,"
In Proceedings of The 17th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT '12),
pp. 219–228, Newark, NJ, USA, June 20–22, 2012.
- Sonia Jahid, Shirin Nilizadeh, Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov, and Apu Kapadia,
"DECENT: A Decentralized Architecture for Enforcing Privacy in Online Social Networks,"
In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Security and Social Networking (SESOC '12),
pp. 326–332, Lugano, Switzerland, March 19, 2012.
- Sameer Patil, Yann Le Gall, Adam J. Lee, and Apu Kapadia,
"My Privacy Policy: Exploring End-user Specification of Free-form Location Access Rules,"
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Usable Security (USEC '12),
pp. 86–97, Bonaire, March 2, 2012. © Springer-Verlag, LNCS 7398.
- Man Ho Au, Apu Kapadia, and Willy Susilo,
"BLACR: TTP-Free Blacklistable Anonymous Credentials with Reputation,"
In Proceedings of The 19th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '12),
San Diego, CA, February 5–8, 2012.
- Huina Mao, Xin Shuai, and Apu Kapadia,
"Loose Tweets: An Analysis of Privacy Leaks on Twitter,"
In Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES '11),
pp. 1–11, Chicago, Illinois, October 17, 2011.
- Shirin Nilizadeh, Naveed Alam, Nathaniel Husted, and Apu Kapadia,
"Pythia: A Privacy Aware, Peer-to-Peer Network for Social Search,"
In Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES '11),
pp. 43–48, Chicago, Illinois, October 17, 2011.
- Roman Schlegel, Apu Kapadia, and Adam J. Lee,
"Eyeing your Exposure: Quantifying and Controlling Information Sharing for Improved Privacy,"
In Proceedings of the 2011 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS '11),
Article 14, 14 pages, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 20–22, 2011.
-
Roman Schlegel, Kehuan Zhang, Xiaoyong Zhou, Mehool Intwala, Apu Kapadia, and XiaoFeng Wang,
"Soundcomber: A Stealthy and Context-Aware Sound Trojan for Smartphones,"
In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '11),
pp. 17–33, San Diego, CA, February 6–9, 2011.
Note: We changed the name from Soundminer to Soundcomber to avoid potential trademark issues with the Soundminer name.
The malware discussed in the article is not related to or connected with Soundminer Inc., a Canadian firm specializing in the manufacture and sale of audio software to manage audio files.
- Emily K. Adams, Mehool Intwala, and Apu Kapadia,
"MeD-Lights: A Usable Metaphor for Patient Controlled Access to Electronic Health Records,"
In Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI ’10),
pp. 800–808, Arlington, VA, November 11–12, 2010.
- Ruj Akavipat, Apurv Dhadphale, Apu Kapadia, and Matthew Wright,
"ReDS: Reputation for Directory Services in P2P Systems,"
In Proceedings of The ACM Workshop on Insider Threats (WITS ’10),
pp. 47–54, Chicago, IL, October 8, 2010.
- Katelin Bailey, Apu Kapadia, Linden Vongsathorn, and Sean W. Smith,
"TwoKind Authentication: Protecting Private Information in Untrustworthy Environments,"
In Proceedings of The Seventh ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES '08),
pp. 39–43, Alexandria, VA, October 27, 2008.
- Patrick P. Tsang, Man Ho Au, Apu Kapadia, and Sean W. Smith,
"PEREA: Towards Practical TTP-Free Revocation in Anonymous Authentication,"
In Proceedings of The 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS '08),
pp. 333–344, Alexandria, VA, October 27–31, 2008.
(Subsumed by our TISSEC Journal paper)
Runner-up for PET Award 2009: Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
- Cory Cornelius, Apu Kapadia, David Kotz, Dan Peebles, Minho Shin and Nikos Triandopoulos,
"AnonySense: Privacy-Aware People-Centric Sensing,"
In Proceedings of The 6th ACM/USENIX International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MOBISYS '08),
pp. 211–224, Breckenridge, Colorado, June 17–20, 2008.
- Apu Kapadia, Nikos Triandopoulos, Cory Cornelius, Daniel Peebles, and David Kotz,
"AnonySense: Opportunistic and Privacy-Preserving Context Collection,"
In Proceedings of The Sixth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (PERVASIVE '08),
pp. 280–297, Sydney, Australia, May 19–22, 2008.
- Apu Kapadia and Nikos Triandopoulos,
"Halo: High-Assurance Locate for Distributed Hash Tables,"
In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '08),
pp. 61–79, San Diego, CA, February 10–13, 2008.
- (This paper describes BLAC)
Patrick P. Tsang, Man Ho Au, Apu Kapadia, and Sean W. Smith,
"Blacklistable Anonymous Credentials: Blocking Misbehaving Users without TTPs,"
In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS '07),
pp. 72–81, Alexandria, VA, October 29–November 2, 2007.
(Subsumed by our TISSEC Journal paper)
Runner-up for PET Award 2009: Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
- Peter C. Johnson, Apu Kapadia, Patrick P. Tsang, and Sean W. Smith,
"Nymble: Anonymous IP-Address Blocking,"
In Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET '07),
pp. 113–133, Ottawa, Canada, June 20–22, 2007. © Springer-Verlag, LNCS 4776.
(Subsumed by our TDSC Journal paper)
- Apu Kapadia, Prasad Naldurg, and Roy H. Campbell,
"Distributed Enforcement of Unlinkability Policies: Looking Beyond the Chinese Wall,"
In Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY '07),
pp. 141–150, Bologna, Italy, June 13–15, 2007.
- Apu Kapadia, Tristan Henderson, Jeffrey J. Fielding, and David Kotz,
"Virtual Walls: Protecting Digital Privacy in Pervasive Environments,"
In Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (PERVASIVE '07),
pp. 162–179, Toronto, Canada, May 13–16, 2007. © Springer-Verlag, LNCS 4480.
Honorable Mention Award (Runner-up for Best Paper)
- (This paper describes PEAPOD)
Apu Kapadia, Patrick P. Tsang and Sean W. Smith,
"Attribute-Based Publishing with Hidden Credentials and Hidden Policies,"
In Proceedings of The 14th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '07),
pp. 179–192, San Diego, CA, February 28–March 2, 2007.
- Apu Kapadia, Geetanjali Sampemane, and Roy H. Campbell,
"KNOW Why Your Access Was Denied: Regulating Feedback for Usable Security,"
In Proceedings of The 11th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '04),
pp. 52–61, Washington DC, October 25–29, 2004.
- Apu Kapadia, Prasad Naldurg, and Roy H. Campbell,
"Routing with Confidence: Supporting Discretionary Routing Requirements in Policy Based Networks,"
In Proceedings of IEEE 5th International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY '04),
pp. 45–54, Yorktown Heights, New York, June 7–9, 2004.
- Wu-chun Feng, Apu Kapadia, and Sunil Thulasidasan,
"GREEN: Proactive Queue Management over a Best-Effort Network,"
In Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM '02),
21(1):1784–1788, Taipei, Taiwan, November 17–21, 2002.
- Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Roy Campbell, Apu Kapadia, Dennis Mickunas, and Seung Yi,
"Routing Through the Mist: Privacy Preserving Communication in Ubiquitous Computing Environments,"
In Proceedings of The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '02),
pp. 74–83, Vienna, Austria, July 2–5, 2002.
- Apu Kapadia, Annette Feng, and Wu-chun Feng,
"The Effects of Inter-Packet Spacing on the Delivery of Multimedia Content,"
In Proceedings of The 21st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '01),
pp. 665–672, Phoenix, Arizona, April 16–19, 2001.
- Apu Kapadia, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Roy H. Campbell, and Dennis Mickunas,
"I-RBAC 2000: Secure Interoperability Using Dynamic Role Translation,"
In Proceedings of The 1st International Conference on Internet Computing (IC '00),
pp. 231–238, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26–29, 2000.
Invited Conference Papers
- Alana Libonati, Kelly Caine, Apu Kapadia, and Michael K. Reiter,
"Defending Against Device Theft with Human Notarization,"
In Proceedings of The 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom '14),
Miami, FL, USA, October 22–25, 2014.
- Apu Kapadia, David Kotz, and Nikos Triandopoulos,
"Opportunistic Sensing: Security Challenges for the New Paradigm,"
In Proceedings of The First International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS '09),
Bangalore, India, January 5th–10th, 2009.
Recent Posters, Poster Abstracts and Work-in-Progress Papers
- Mohammed Korayem, David Crandall, and Apu Kapadia,
"Objectavoider: Detecting Sensitive Objects in Imagery from Wearable Cameras (Poster),"
In The 21st Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '14),
San Diego, CA, February 23–26, 2014.
- Roberto Hoyle, Sameer Patil, Dejanae White, Jerald Dawson, Paul Whalen, and Apu Kapadia,
"Attire: Conveying Information Exposure through Avatar Apparel (Demo)" ,
In Proceedings of The 2012 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion (CSCW ’13),
pp. 19–22, San Antonio, Texas, USA, February 23–27, 2013.
- Sameer Patil, Greg Norcie, Apu Kapadia, and Adam J. Lee,
"Check out where I am!": Location Sharing Motivations, Preferences, and Practices,
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI EA '12),
pp. 1997–2002, Austin, TX, May 5–10, 2012.
- Sameer Patil and Apu Kapadia,
"Are You Exposed? Conveying Information Exposure (Extended Abstract),"
In Proceedings of The 2012 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion (CSCW ’12),
pp. 191–194, Seattle, WA, February 11–15, 2012.
- Matthew Wright, Apu Kapadia, Mohan Kumar, and Apurv Dhadphale,
"ReDS: Reputation for Directory Services in P2P Systems (Extended Abstract),"
In Proceedings of the 6th Annual Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Re- search Workshop (CSIIRW ’10),
Article 71, 4 pages, Oak Ridge, TN, April 21–23, 2010.
- Fabeah Adu-Oppong, Casey K. Gardiner, Apu Kapadia, and Patrick P. Tsang,
"Social Circles: Tackling Privacy in Social Networks (Poster Abstract),"
In Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS '08),
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 23–25, 2008.
- Minho Shin, Cory Cornelius, Daniel Peebles, Apu Kapadia, Patrick Tsang and David Kotz,
"SenseRight: Reliable People-centric Sensing with Unreliable Participants (Poster Abstract),"
The 6th ACM/USENIX International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MOBISYS '08),
Breckenridge, Colorado, June 17–20, 2008.
- Katelin Bailey, Linden Vongsathorn, Apu Kapadia, Chris Masone, Sean W. Smith,
"TwoKind Authentication: Usable Authenticators for Untrustworthy Environments (Poster Abstract),"
In Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS '07),
pp. 169–170, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 18–20, 2007.
(Subsumed by our WPES '08 paper)
- Patrick P. Tsang, Apu Kapadia, and Sean W. Smith,
"Anonymous IP-Address Blocking in Tor with Trusted Computing (Work in Progress),"
The Second Workshop on Advances in Trusted Computing (WATC '06),
Tokyo, Japan, November 30–December 1, 2006.
(Subsumed by our PET '07 paper)
- Raquel Hill, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Roy H. Campbell, Apu Kapadia, Prasad Naldurg, Anand Ranganathan,
"A Middleware Architecture for Securing Ubiquitous Computing Cyber Infrastructures (Work in Progress),"
ACM/IFIP/USENIX 5'th International Middleware Conference (MIDDLEWARE '04),
Toronto, Canada, October 18th–22nd, 2004.
Appears in IEEE Distributed Systems Online, 5(9), September 2004.
Invited Magazine Articles
Theses
Patents
- US 10,592,687, Issued 3/17/2020. Method and system of enforcing privacy policies for mobile sensory devices, Apu Kapadia, Robert E. Templeman, David Crandall, and Mohammed Korayem.
- US 9,998,684, Issued 6/12/2018. Method and apparatus for virtual 3D model generation and navigation using opportunistically captured images, Apu Kapadia, Md Zahidur Rahman, David Crandall, and Robert E. Templeman.
- US 9,660,995, Issued 5/23/2017. Methods, systems, and computer readable media for combating device theft with user notarization, Michael Kendrick Reiter, Apu Chandrasen Kapadia, and Alana Libonati.
Selected Technical Reports
- Mohammed Korayem, Robert Templeman, Dennis Chen, David J. Crandall, and Apu Kapadia,
"ScreenAvoider: Protecting Computer Screens from Ubiquitous Cameras,"
CoRR arXiv Technical Report arXiv:1412.0008, November 2014.
- Robert Templeman, Zahid Rahman, David Crandall, and Apu Kapadia,
"PlaceRaider: Virtual Theft in Physical Spaces with Smartphones,"
CoRR arXiv Technical Report arXiv:1209.5982, September 2012.
MIT Technology Review arXiv Blog’s “Best of 2012″
- Ruj Akavipat, Mahdi N. Al-Ameen, Apu Kapadia, Zahid Rahman, Roman Schlegel, and Matthew Wright,
"ReDS: A Framework for Reputation-Enhanced DHTs,"
CoRR arXiv Technical Report arXiv:1209.4867, September 2012.
- Shirin Nilizadeh, Naveed Alam, Nathaniel Husted, and Apu Kapadia,
"Pythia: A Privacy Aware, Peer-to-Peer Network for Social Search,"
Indiana University Technical Report TR687, October 2010.
(Extended version of our WPES '11 paper)
- Patrick P. Tsang, Apu Kapadia, Cory Cornelius, and Sean W. Smith,
"Nymble: Blocking Misbehaving Users in Anonymizing Networks,"
Dartmouth Computer Science Technical Report 2008-637, December 2008.
(Significantly updates our PET '07 paper and complements our TDSC '11 article)
- Katelin Bailey, Apu Kapadia, Linden Vongsathorn, and Sean W. Smith,
"TwoKind Authentication: Protecting Private Information in Untrustworthy Environments (Extended Version),"
Dartmouth Computer Science Technical Report TR2008-632, August 2008.
(Extended version of our WPES '08 paper)
- Apu Kapadia, Prasad Naldurg, and Roy H. Campbell,
"Routing with Confidence: A Model for Trustworthy Communication,"
Also appears as UIUC Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2006-2680 (UILU-ENG-2006-1707), January 2006.
(Significantly updates our POLICY '04 paper)
- Apu Kapadia, Wu-chun Feng, and Roy H. Campbell,
"GREEN: A TCP Equation-Based Approach to Active Queue Management,"
UIUC Technical Report: UIUCDCS-R-2004-2408/UILU-ENG-2004-1710, February 2004.
(Significantly updates our GLOBECOM '02 paper)
Other Reports
- Apu Kapadia, Charng-da Lu, "Random Number Generators," CS/ECE 441 Project Report, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2001
Funding disclosures and acknowledgments:
I am grateful to the following current and past sponsors: National Science Foundation (NSF), Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P), Google, Microsoft Research, Grant Thornton, Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (Indiana University), the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (Indiana University), and the SPICE security center at Indiana University.
Copyright Notice: This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.
Back Home
|