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Apu Kapadia

Apu Kapadia

Apu Kapadia is a Professor of Computer Science at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in October 2005. For his dissertation research on trustworthy communication, he received a four-year High-Performance Computer Science Fellowship from the Department of Energy. Following his doctorate, he joined Dartmouth College as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS), and then as a Member of Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Apu Kapadia is interested in topics related to computer security and privacy. He is particularly interested in accountable anonymity; pervasive, mobile, and wearable computing; human factors; crowdsourcing; and peer-to-peer networks. For his work on accountable anonymity, two of his papers were named as ‘Runners-up for PET Award 2009: Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies’. His work on privacy in the context of wearable cameras received an Honorable Mention Award at ACM CHI 2016. His work on usable privacy controls was given the ‘Honorable Mention Award (Runner-up for Best Paper)’ at the Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2007.

Apu Kapadia has received five NSF grants, including an NSF CAREER award in 2013, and a Google Research Award in 2014. He was also a recipient of the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award in 2013 and a Distinguished Alumni Educator Award from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2015. For the years 2015 and 2016, he was Program Co-Chair of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the associated journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs).

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PhD Students

Yasmeen Rashidi

Yasmeen Rashidi

Yasmeen is a second-year Ph.D. student. She is interested in usable privacy and cross-cultural privacy.

Imtiaz Ahmad

Imtiaz Ahmad

Imtiaz Ahmad is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington. He completed his undergrad in Computer Science from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. His research interests are Human-Computer Interaction, Usable Security, Crowd-sourcing Security, Security and Privacy for Wearable devices, Data mining, and information retrieval.

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Taslima Akter

Taslima Akter

Taslima Akter is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington. She completed her undergrad in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. After completing her undergraduate studies she worked as a lecturer at the University of Asia Pacific, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her research interests are mainly focused on accessibility and privacy for people with visual impairment while sharing images on social media or with crowd-workers. She is also interested in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and Social Media Privacy.

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John Stein

John Stein

John Stein is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science. He is interested in the intersection of Cybersecurity and Data Science. His research focus involves the use of AI/ML techniques toward the establishment of authenticity and/or integrity of digital media.

Sabid Bin Habib

Sabid Bin Habib

Sabid is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Indiana University Bloomington. He joined the IU Privacy lab in Fall’19. He completed his undergrad in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Apart from research, Sabid finds interest in sports, traveling, and music.

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Alumni