September: Our paper "A First Look at Shill Looping in NFT Ecosystem" has been accepted at IEEE WIFS '23.
February: Our paper "On the Feasibility of Profiling Electric Vehicles through Charging Data" has been accepted at NDSS '23 workshop: VehicleSec '23; it won the Zoox Best Paper Runner-up Award.
2022
December: Our paper "AutoSpill: Credential Leakage from Mobile Password Managers" has been accepted at ACM CODASPY '23; it won the Best Paper Award. An extension of this work has been accepted at BlackHat Europe Briefings '23.
August: Our paper "Analyzing Price Deviations in DeFi Oracles" has been accepted at CANS '22.
July: Our paper "BLEWhisperer: Exploiting BLE Advertisements for Data Exfiltration" has been accepted at ESORICS '22.
February: Our project proposal "Blockchain and Machine Learning Powered Unified Video Know Your Customer Framework" has won MeitY (Government of India) funding.
2021
December: My project proposal "Towards Secure and Efficient PoW alternatives" has won Ripple Centre of Excellence funding.
February: My project proposal "Secure Provisioning of Blockchain-based Systems over Future Internet Architecture" has won Ripple Centre of Excellence funding.
2020
October: Our paper "Detecting Covert Cryptomining using HPC" has been accepted at CANS '20.
August: Our paper "Averages don't Characterise the Heavy Tails of Ransoms" has been accepted at APWG/IEEE eCrime '20.
June: Our paper "Improving Password Guessing via Representation Learning" has been accepted at IEEE S&P '21.
May: I won the DBL post-doctoral research fellowship.
April: Our paper "The Road Ahead for Networking: A Survey on ICN-IP Coexistence Solutions" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.
May: Our paper "Blockchain Trilemma Solver Algorand has Dilemma over Undecidable Messages" has been accepted at ARES '19.
May: Our paper "On the Exploitation of Online SMS Receiving Services to Forge ID Verification" has been accepted at ARES '19.
January: A short technical report "The True Scale of Extortions by Sextortion Emails" is available here.
2018
November: Our paper "Mind Your Wallet's Privacy: Identifying Bitcoin Wallet Apps and User's Actions through Network Traffic Analysis" has been accepted at ACM SAC '19.
August: Our paper "On the Economic Significance of Ransomware Campaigns: A Bitcoin Transactions Perspective" has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Computers & Security.
April: Our paper "Spot the Difference: Your Bucket is Leaking - A Novel Methodology to Expose A/B Testing Effortlessly" has been accepted at IEEE CNS '18 workshop: SPC '18.
2017
November: I won the Intel Student Travel Grant at IEEE NFV-SDN '17.
August: Our paper "A Comprehensive and Effective Mechanism for DDoS Detection in SDN" has been accepted at IEEE WiMob '17.
July: Our paper "Blocking Intrusions at Border using Software Defined-Internet Exchange Point (SD-IXP)" has been accepted at IEEE NFV-SDN '17.
February: Our paper "PANORAMA: Real-time Bird's Eye View of an OpenFlow Network" has been accepted at IEEE ICNSC '17.
2016
August: I won the CaRiPaRo doctoral research fellowship (awarded to only 15 international students per year) to pursue a fully-funded PhD.
May: Our paper "ELBA: Efficient Layer Based Routing Algorithm in SDN" has been accepted at IEEE ICCCN '16.