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Career

· Associate Professor Of Computer Science, Virginia Tech2025–
· Assistant Professor Of Computer Science, Virginia Tech2018–2025
· Postdoctoral Researcher, UCSB, Computer Science2016–2018
· Researcher, Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent2015–2016
· Research Intern, Microsoft Research India2012–2012
· Research Intern, Microsoft Research Redmond2010–2010
· PhD Student, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems2008–2015

Publications (40)

Neural Cleanse: Identifying and Mitigating Backdoor Attacks in Neural Networks
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · 2019
1,705
cited
On the evolution of user interaction in Facebook
Workshop on Online Social Networks · 2009
1,555
cited
You are who you know: inferring user profiles in online social networks
Web Search and Data Mining · 2010
792
cited
An analysis of social network-based Sybil defenses
Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication · 2010
417
cited
Understanding and combating link farming in the twitter social network
The Web Conference · 2012
408
cited
Towards Detecting Anomalous User Behavior in Online Social Networks
USENIX Security Symposium · 2014
298
cited
Automated Crowdturfing Attacks and Defenses in Online Review Systems
Conference on Computer and Communications Security · 2017
167
cited
With Great Training Comes Great Vulnerability: Practical Attacks against Transfer Learning
USENIX Security Symposium · 2018
125
cited
Sieve: actionable insights from monitored metrics in distributed systems
International Middleware Conference · 2017
112
cited
Complexity vs. performance: empirical analysis of machine learning as a service
ACM/SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference · 2017
106
cited
T-Miner: A Generative Approach to Defend Against Trojan Attacks on DNN-based Text Classification
USENIX Security Symposium · 2021
98
cited
Throwing Darts in the Dark? Detecting Bots with Limited Data using Neural Data Augmentation
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · 2020
82
cited
Canal: scaling social network-based Sybil tolerance schemes
European Conference on Computer Systems · 2012
77
cited
Deepfake Text Detection: Limitations and Opportunities
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · 2022
72
cited
Deepfake Videos in the Wild: Analysis and Detection
The Web Conference · 2021
57
cited
Exploring the design space of social network-based Sybil defenses
International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks · 2012
55
cited
What Happens After You Leak Your Password: Understanding Credential Sharing on Phishing Sites
ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security · 2019
55
cited
Strength in Numbers: Robust Tamper Detection in Crowd Computations
Conference on Online Social Networks · 2015
46
cited
Defending against large-scale crawls in online social networks
Conference on Emerging Network Experiment and Technology · 2012
38
cited
Understanding and Specifying Social Access Control Lists
Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security · 2014
32
cited
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