Minaxi Gupta

Associate Professor
Computer Science
Indiana University
150 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405

Press Coverage

• May 2011: An Indiana Daily Student (IDS) article discussed my view point on user privacy on the Web and the ongoing Google versus Facebook debate.
• October 2010: The Portland Press Herald interviewed me when Maine sold over 100K email addresses of its residents to a retailer.
• August 2010: SC Magazine interviewed me in the wake of FTC's probe into LimeWire's inadvertent file sharing.
• March 2010: Our work on disproportionately malicious Internet domains was covered by press.
  • Government Computer News (GCN) wrote about it.
  • MIT Technology Review covered it in an article.
• October 2009: Our work on flux in phishing websites was covered by press.
  • MIT Technology Review wrote an article on it.
  • ACM TechNews picked it up on October 19th, 2009.
• July 2009: Our work on spam origins was covered in an MIT Technology Review article.
• June 2009: I was on NPR's Noon Edition talking about identity theft.
• July 2008: Our paper on open Web redirects was invited to be included in Common Weaknesses Enumeration (CWE), a community-developed dictionary of software weakness types (ID: CWE-601).
• July-August 2008: Our work on open redirects, a Web vulnerability exploited in phishing attacks, was covered by popular press.
  • The Washington Post wrote about it.
  • The Herald Times covered it on their front page. Here is just the article and the relevant pages of the newspaper (front page and continuation).
  • Indianapolis NBC affiliate, Channel 13 (WTHR), ran a story on it in their nightly 11 o'clock news. Here's the story and its video (regular) (high-definition).
  • Indiana University News Room wrote about it.
  • ACM TechNews picked it up on August 11th, 2008.
  • SC Magazine mentioned it in an article on trusted websites.
• May 2008: SC Magazine interviewed me for our work on worms and viruses in popular peer-to-peer networks.

Research

My research interests are in computer networks and their security. Currently, I am interested in cyberfraud and censorship. My publications can be found here.

Teaching

• Computer Networks (P438): Fall 2011, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
• Computer Networks (P538): Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009, 2008, 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2005, 2004
• Modern Cyberfraud (B649): Spring 2009, 2008, 2006, 2005

Current Students

• Christopher W. Dunn (Ph.D.)
• John-Paul Verkamp (Ph.D.)

Past Students

• Youngsang Shin (Ph.D., co-advised with Steven A. Myers, Spring 2011): Senior Research Associate at Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA)
• Darya Orlova (M.S., with dissertation, Spring 2011): PointBridge
• Andrew J. Kalafut (Ph.D., Spring 2010): Assistant Professor at Grand Valley State University (GVSU)
• Craig A. Shue (Ph.D., Spring 2009): Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

Program Committee Membership

• ACM Computer Communications Security (CCS): 2009
• ACM/SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC): 2010
• IEEE Infocom: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008
• IFIP/TC6 Networking: 2010
• IEEE Global Internet (GI) Workshop, held in conjunction with Infocom: 2009
• IEEEE Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec), held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP): 2009, 2008
• Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) eCrime Workshop: 2008
• IEEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN): 2008
• International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN): 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006

Contact Info

Email:
Office:	Lindley Hall 230D
Telephone:	812-855-0918
Fax:	812-855-4829