Faculty of Computer Science @IITKgp. Usable security & privacy. Tinkering with systems. Data science. Social media. he/him/his.
Joined August 2016
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We (human-centered security and privacy group at @maxplanckpress #MPI_SP) are hiring interns to start anytime in 2025! Applications are due on Nov. 1, 2024. If interested, submit an application to the central portal (cis.mpg.de/internships/) and email me a quick note after. 1/3
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📢 I am seeking candidates interested in applying for a Tenured Research Position @Inria to join my team!
The interested candidate must reach out and express their interest before the end of October 2024.
👉 More info here: www-sop.inria.fr/members/Nat…
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A surprising & little-known results in classical statistics:
mean (μ) and median (m) are within one std deviation:
|μ−m| ≤ σ
For unimodal densities, bound is even tighter
|μ−m| ≤ 0.7746 σ
This beautiful results first appeared in a 1932 paper by Hotelling & Solomons
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#CornellTech congratulates Associate Professor Nicola Dell on being awarded a 2024 MacArthur Foundation #fellowship for her work developing tech interventions to address the needs of overlooked populations. Congrats, Nicki! tech.cornell.edu/news/cornel…
@macfound @Cornell #MacFellow
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Check out the video recording from the Web3 Randomness workshop youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
w/ organized with @pratyaycrypto and @SUPRA_Labs
I learned a lot to learn from this workshop. Lots of open problems for researchers!
special thanks to all speakers and attendees
@kostascrypto @josephbonnea @BhushanVishwas @sherricuono @alinush @sourav1547 @guruvamsip @PratikS64535369 @akhilsai2712 @_hermitsage_ @JockinVC @SpeculatorAr @YKondi @JockinVC Sriram Sridhar, (Berkeley), Jacob Gorman (@SUPRA_Labs), Patrick McClurg (@protocollabs), Jia Liu (Enya labs), Ke Wu (kewucs.com/), Luis Brandao (NIST), and @donbeaver
Web3 Randomness Workshop Announcement: hub.supra.com/3rand
When: (next week) June 18 & 19, 2024 | 9AM-1PM ET
Where: (online & free)
What: talks & panels on the latest academic/industrial development for verifiable randomness for Web3/blockchain [1/4]
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Majed will present our work on The Web of Abuse (pages.cs.wisc.edu/~chatterje…) at @IEEEEUROSP 2024.
Main takeaways:
1/ A large fraction of survivors of tech-facilitated intimate partner surveillance (IPS) look for help online and often rely on search engines for that.
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📢Exciting news! BuildSec 2024 will be in New Delhi, India.
Need to organize such cybersecurity events/conferences in the Global South too.
Consider submitting your valuable work: buildsec.org/call-for-papers 🙏
🗓️ Deadline: July 19, 2024
@_mainack #CyberSecurity #BuildSec2024
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Delighted to share the preprint for our @IJCAIconf 2024 paper (Main Track) work on vocabulary adaptation strategies for fine-tuning open-domain PLMs for medical summarization
Team: @BaldeGunjan @_mainack @gangulyniloy
arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2405.04163
@cnerg @l3s_luh
#IJCAI2024
Paper accepted in @IJCAIconf 2024 (ijcai24.org/)
Title: MEDVOC: Vocabulary Adaptation for Fine-tuning Pre-trained Language Models on Medical Text Summarization
Authors: @BaldeGunjan, @roysoumya1, @_mainack, @gangulyniloy
Congratulations!🎉
#IJCAI2024
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Paper accepted in @IJCAIconf 2024 (ijcai24.org/)
Title: MEDVOC: Vocabulary Adaptation for Fine-tuning Pre-trained Language Models on Medical Text Summarization
Authors: @BaldeGunjan, @roysoumya1, @_mainack, @gangulyniloy
Congratulations!🎉
#IJCAI2024
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If you, like many, think relying just on `cat` command's output is enough to be sure about the integrity of a bash file. Think twice, you could get hacked. Read below 👇
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Aastha Mehta @aasthakm builds principled systems for data security in cloud, edge platforms. She is looking for students with background/interest in systems security, OS, networking, distributed systems. Specific topics: policy compliance, network and architectural side channels
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The ICWSM 2023 organizing committee would like to acknowledge the best reviewers and Senior Program Committee Members!
Congrats to everyone, and thanks a lot for your service! With your help, we ensured that the ICWSM 2023 conference consisted of high-quality papers!
🏅👇
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[reluctantly chipper linkedin voice]
i'm on the academic job market!
i'll be getting my PhD in CS from @ICatGT next year!
my work sits at an intersection of usable security and privacy, design, and critical theory 🆒
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🔥 for Prof. @manasgaur90 @UMBC to join the #PhDClinic Mentors! Attend his talk "KAI^2: Knowledge-infused AI and Inference"
Register at bit.ly/phdclinicevents to attend the talk.
Register at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… to interact with Manas & other 👌🏽 mentors. #KnowYourMentors
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Interested in doing computational social science research on topics such as web & society, online info consumption, impact of online intermediaries?
The Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) is accepting applications for Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Fellows.
We are hiring! We are now taking applications for Postdoctoral Fellows (a term up to 3 years) and Research Fellows (a term up to 5 years). Deadline is August 13
More info is in the 🔗
hiit.fi/hiit-postdoctoral-an…
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What🤯? >> An employee of #Amazon #Ring is said to have used the company's #surveillance #cameras to spy on 81 #women in their bedrooms and bathrooms unnoticed.
➡️German news story: spiegel.de/netzwelt/gadgets/…
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Earlier today @rrohit2901 presented the paper on characterizing ad hominem fallacy usage @icwsm. Yesterday he also presented the dataset paper on hate videos. @cnerg @_mainack
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I’ve helped organize this. Join us and please retweet. – at Hamburg, Germany
Just announced: As AI systems push the boundaries of human expression, we are forced to confront questions about creativity, authenticity, and ownership. On May 24, join artists and technologists as we explore these complex issues at our Spring Symposium: stanford.io/41WC4ku
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The new Messaging Layer Security (#MLS) specification provides end-to-end security that makes it easy for apps to provide users the highest level of security, keeping user information safe even if the cloud service they’re using has been breached: ietf.org/blog/mls-secure-and…
