Apu Kapadia

Ph.D., Illinois (UIUC), 2005

Assistant Professor
of Computer Science and Informatics

School of Informatics and Computing
Indiana University Bloomington

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Recent news

Dec 2011: Our work on PEREA (reputation based anonymous blacklisting) was published by ACM TISSEC
Oct 2011: Our work on BLACR (reputation based anonymous blacklisting) was accepted at NDSS
Aug 2011: Privacy leaks on Twitter? See our WPES paper on Loose Tweets.
Aug 2011: How can we ask and answer questions in our social network privately? See our WPES paper.

Office

Informatics West 211
(812) 856 1465

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Research Interests

Security and privacy in peer-to-peer and social networks, Network Security, Human Factors and Usable security, Privacy policies, Security and privacy in pervasive and mobile computing, Accountable Anonymity, Anonymizing networks, Applied cryptography

(more in my bio, publications, or cv)

a wordle of my paper titles

Here is a link to my papers, publications, and reports

Teaching

Spring 2012: I-433/533: Systems & Protocol Security & Information Assurance
Fall 2011: CSCI-B 649/INFO-I 590: Advanced Topics in Privacy
Spring 2011: I-308: Information Representation
Fall 2010: CSCI-B 649/INFO-I 590: Advanced Topics in Privacy
Spring 2010: INFO-I400/H400/I590 Advanced Security and Privacy
Fall 2009: INFO-I 590: Advanced Topics in Privacy
Fall 2007: CS 38: Security and Privacy (Dartmouth College)

Program Committees

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TRUST '12, Vienna, Austria, June 13–15, 2012. Submission deadline: February 22, 2012.
ACISP '12, Wollongong, Australia, July 9–11, 2012. Submission deadline: February 23, 2012.
IWSSI/SPMU '12, Newcastle, UK, June 18, 2012. Submission deadline: March 2, 2012.
SOUPS '12, Washington, DC, USA, July 11–13, 2012. Submission deadline: March 9, 2012.

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Advising

Postdoc
Sameer Patil

PhD Students
Zheng Dong (co-advised by Prof. Jean Camp)
Shirin Nilizadeh
Greg Norcie
Zahid Rahman
Robert Templeman

Masters Students
Hani Dawoud

Former students
Naveed Alam (MSSI)
Roman Schlegel (Visiting Scholar, PhD Student at City University of Hong Kong)

I was privileged to know
Patrick Tsang, obituary

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