Saurabh Kumar

Saurabh Kumar

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Hyderabad

Biography

I am an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Hyderabad. Prior to joining IIT Hyderabad, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Department of Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, USA.

I completed my PhD from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, advised by Sandeep Kumar Shukla at IIT Kanpur and Biswabandan Panda at IIT Bombay. My research interests include cybersecurity, Android security, malware analysis and cyber forensics.

Before joining IIT Kanpur, I served as an Assistant Programmer with the Central Bureau of Investigation, India. In CBI, my work revolved around Cybercrime and Cyber Forensics along with the management of information technology related activities of the Department.

Interests
  • Cyber Security
  • Android Security
  • Cyber Forensics
  • Malware Analysis

News

July, 2024: Joined IIT Hyderabad.
Mar, 2024: Our paper titled “Climbing the Influence Tiers on TikTok: A Multimodal Study” is accepted at ICWSM 2024.
May, 2023: Our paper EPASAD is accepted at Cybersecurity journal.
Jan, 2023: Our paper KalpaVriksh is accepted at CCGrid 2023.
Jan, 2023: Joined PostDoc at Northwestern University, USA with Prof. V.S. Subrahmanian.
Dec, 2022: Defended my PhD.
Sep, 2022: Our paper InveSeal is accepted at ACM Journal DTRAP.
Jun, 2022: Submitted PhD Thesis.

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Assistant Professor
Jul 2024 – Present India
 
 
 
 
 
Postdoctoral Scholar
Jan 2023 – Jun 2024 USA
 
 
 
 
 
Teaching Assistantsip
Dec 2015 – Dec 2022 India
 
 
 
 
 
Assistant Programmer
Feb 2013 – Dec 2015 India

Publications

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(2024). Climbing the Influence Tiers on TikTok: A Multimodal Study. The 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-2024). [Core: A Ranked].

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(2023). EPASAD: Ellipsoid Decision Boundary Based Process-Aware Stealthy Attack Detector. Cybersecurity, Springer. [Q1].

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(2023). KalpaVriksh: Efficient and Cost-effective GUI Application Hosting using Singleton Snapshots. The 23rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid-2023). [Core: A Ranked ].

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(2022). InviSeal: A Stealthy Dynamic Analysis Framework for Android Systems. ACM Journal on Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP). [Q2].

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(2022). AndroOBFS: Time-tagged Obfuscated Android Malware Dataset with Family Information. 2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR-2022). [Core: A Ranked].

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Talks

Mobile Security: Android Malware Analysis
Mobile Security: Android
Mobile Forensics and Challenges
Mobile Forensics and Challenges: Perspective of Indian Investigators
Security of Mobile Platforms: Android Security

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