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

Jan, 2025: One paper titled “Reinforcement-Learning Based Covert Social Influence Operations” is accepted at The Web Confrence (WWW) 2025.
Jan, 2025: One paper titled “SCRUBD: Smart Contracts Reentrancy and Unhandled Exceptions Vulnerability Dataset” is accepted at MSR 2025 under Data and Tool Showcase Track.
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

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

Jul 2024 – Present India

Postdoctoral Scholar

Northwestern University

Jan 2023 – Jun 2024 USA

Teaching Assistantsip

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Dec 2015 – Dec 2022 India

Assistant Programmer

Central Bureau of Investigation

Feb 2013 – Dec 2015 India

Publications

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Saurabh Kumar, Valerio La Gatta, Andrea Pugliese, ndrew Pulver, V.S. Subrahmanian, Jiazhi Zhang, Youzhi Zhang (2025). Reinforcement-Learning Based Covert Social Influence Operations. The Web Conference (WWW-2025). [Core: A* Ranked] (Accepted).

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Chavhan Sujeet Yashavant, Mitrajsinh Chavda, Saurabh Kumar, Amey Karkare, Angshuman Karmakar (2025). SCRUBD: Smart Contracts Reentrancy and Unhandled Exceptions Vulnerability Datase. 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR-2022). [Core: A Ranked] (Accepted).

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Pier Paolo Tricomi, Saurabh Kumar, Mauro Conti, V.S. Subrahmanian (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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Vikas Maurya, Rachit Agarwal, Saurabh Kumar, Sandeep Kumar Shukla (2023). EPASAD: Ellipsoid Decision Boundary Based Process-Aware Stealthy Attack Detector. Cybersecurity, Springer. [Q1].

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Sumaiya Shaikh, Saurabh Kumar, Debadatta Mishra (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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