Arun
Balaji Buduru Faculty-in-charge
for Defence Engagements Founding
Head – Usable Security Group IIIT-Delhi,
New Delhi-110020, India Visiting
Faculty @Indiana University’s Luddy School – Bloomington, USA Email: arunb at
iiitd dot ac dot in Office
Location and Office Hours B-504
R&D Block, IIIT-D W Fr
1100-1200hrs; Other times by appointment Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science (with
specialization in Information Assurance) [2011-2017]
Arizona State University – Tempe, USA
B.E. in Computer Science and
Engineering [2007-2011]
Anna University – Chennai, India
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Courses Taught @IIIT-D
CSE201 Advanced Programming (AP) – Monsoon 2024 CSE345/545 Foundations to Computer
Security (FCS) – Monsoon 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017 CSE 347/652|DES306/525 Usable
Security and Privacy (UsS) – Winter 2023 CSE651 Topics in Adaptive Cyber
Security (TACS) –Winter 2022, 2020, 2017, 2020 CSE102 Data Structures and
Algorithms (DSA) – Winter 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 Courses Taught on Visiting
Assignments
CSCI-B 547|INFO-I 533 Systems and
Protocol Security and Information Assurance @ Indiana University, Bloomington
– Winter 2024 |
My research lies at the intersection
of Affective AI, Usable Security and Computational Linguistics with an emphasis
on building user-centric security solutions.
· DCM Nouvelle. Behavioral Modelling of Entities for
Building Contextual Usable Security Solutions. 2022-2024. Principal
Investigator. INR 30,00,000
· NSM. “Orbit computation of Resident Space Objects for
Space Situational Awareness”, 2021-2024, National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)
by DST, Co-PI, INR 30,03,241
· ABB GISPL, 2018-2022, Microservice and Controller
approach to control systems: Challenges in Security, Principal Investigator,
INR 17,68,000
· CISCO. Support for organizing summer school on
Cybersecurity and Data Analytics. Summer 2019. INR 5,00,000
· DRDO, Government of India. Security testing of network
protocols and devices. Summer 2019. INR 19,54,000
· DRDO, Government of India. 2017-2018, Principal
Investigator, INR 9,86,000
· DRDO, Government of India. 2017-2019, Co-Principal
Investigator, INR 34,01,200
·
Wish
Foundation, Summer 2020, Data Privacy & Security Advisory, Principal
Investigator, INR 45,000
·
DCM Tech
Ltd, 2018-2019, Adaptive parameter re-configuration for dynamic environments
through continuous learning, Principal Investigator, INR 8,60,000
Current Students
Doctoral
· Harsha M
(Ph.D., Monsoon 2022 - ) [Co-Advised with Dr. Sanat Biswas] · Orchid Chetia Phukan (Ph.D., Summer 2023 - )
[Co-Advised with Prof. Rajesh Sharma] · Nitin Choudhury (Ph.D., Monsoon 2024 - ) Research Associates · Drishti Singh (M. Tech, Winter
2024 - ) · Sarthak Sharma (M. Tech, Winter
2024 - ) · Sarthak Jain (B. Tech, Monsoon
2023 - ) · Mayank (B. Tech, Summer 2024 -
) · Abhijeet Anand (B. Tech,
Monsoon 2024 - ) · Himanshu Sachdeva(B. Tech, Winter 2024 - ) |
Past Students
·
Dr. Neha Kumari [PhD Thesis Defended on Feb. 19, 2024] (AI
Specialist @Accenture) ·
Saurabh Gupta (M.Tech thesis, SE @BCG Consulting) ·
Vani Agarwal (M.Tech thesis, SE @Endurance Intl Group) ·
Indira Sen (M.Tech thesis, pursuing PhD @ GESIS,
Leibnitz Institute for the Social Sciences and RWTH-Aachen) ·
Divya Sharma (M.Tech thesis, Pursuing Ph.D. @IIIT-D) ·
Yashwardhan Chaudhuri (Associate ML
Scientist @WadhwaniAI) ·
Devyani Koshal (ASE @ CNH) ·
Mrinal Anand (AMTS @ Salesforce) ·
Aravindhan (Pursuing MS @Arizona State University) ·
Tenzin Bhotia (Applied Research Scientist @NeuralSpace) ·
Arindaam Roy (SDE @ICICI Lombard) ·
Vaibhav Kumar ·
Siddhant Bhambri (Pursuing Ph.D. @Arizona State
University) ·
Shubham Singh (Pursuing Ph.D. @University of Illinois
Chicago) ·
Shreyans Mongia (SE @Wynk Ltd) ·
Mudit Verma (Pursuing Ph.D. @Arizona State University) ·
Satvik Jain (Pursuing M.S. @Columbia University) ·
Kaustubh Welankar (Pursuing research internship
@Microsoft) |
Invited Talks and
Outreach · Invited Lecture on
“Leveraging AGI Models for Security Hardening of Critical Infrastructures”,
at Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar (SSN) College of Engineering – Chennai – Nov.
2023 · Invited Lecture on
“Leveraging AGI Models for Security Hardening of DPI”, at Vellore Institute
of Technology (VIT) – Chennai – Oct. 2023 · Panellist in a Session on “Securing DPI amidst
Unprecedented Scale of Digitization”, moderated by Padma Shri Prof. Ashok
Jhunjhunwala at The G20 conference on Crime and security in the age of NFTs,
AI and Metaverse. Organized by MHA under India’s G20 Presidency – July 2023 ·
Invited
Lecture on “Incorporating User Behavioral
Traits to Developing User-Centric Security Mechanisms”, at IISER-Bhopal –
June 2023 · Invited Talk on “Incorporating User Behavioural
Traits to Develop User-Centric Security Mechanisms”, at DST Workshop on AI
and Cybersecurity hosted at IIT-Jammu – May 2023 · Expert Talk, “Cybersecurity and Deep Learning -
Intelligence through Data Integration”, at STUTI Training workshop on Trends
in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Jawaharlal Nehru University
(JNU) – March 2023 · Expert Talk, “Cybersecurity and Deep Learning –
Intelligence through Data Integration” at IEEE ComSoc School Series
Technologies for Enhancing Security & Privacy in Future Communication
Networks -Jul. 2022 · Expert Lecture, “Encryption, Anonymization and
Crypto Currencies” at Police Training School for Delhi Police officers - Oct.
2021 · Expert Talk (Panel) on “AI for
Cybersecurity - Building Generalized Learning Systems” @National Conference
of CISO organized by Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) – Sept.
2021 · Invited Talk on “AI in Cybersecurity” @The Indian
School New Delhi – Oct. 2020 · Workshop Talk, “Cybersecurity and Deep Learning –
Intelligence through Data Integration” at SETS-Chennai (Under O/o PSA GoI) -
Mar. 2020 · Workshop Talk, “Mirai Botnet Attack and Defenses”
at CyPAD for Delhi Police officers - Dec. 2019 · Expert Talk, “Data Analytics and Deep Learning”
at National Academy for Customs, Indirect taxes and Narcotics
(NACIN)-Faridabad for IRS officers - Nov. 2019 · Workshop Talk, “Cybersecurity and Machine Learning
– Intelligence through Data Integration” at IIT-Madras - Jul. 2019 · Expert Talks on Topics in Network Security and
AI/ML @IIIT-D CEP programs for DRDO Scientists held on May-June 2019 and May
2017 · Invited Talk, “Adaptive Approaches to Protecting
Cyber Infrastructures with User-Centric Techniques”, at IIIT-Hyderabad – Feb.
2019 · Expert Talk, “Data Analytics” at National
Academy for Customs, Indirect taxes and Narcotics (NACIN)-Faridabad for IRS
officers - Feb. 2019 and Oct. 2018 · Expert Talk, “Adaptive security and Data
Analytics” at National Academy for Customs, Indirect taxes and Narcotics
(NACIN)-Faridabad for IRS officers - Sept. 2018 · Workshop Talk, “User Centric Approaches to
Securing Devices” at ABB-Bengaluru - Mar. 2018 ·
Invited Talk, “Adaptive Approaches to Protecting Cyber Infrastructures with
User-Centric Techniques” at IIT-Madras - Jun. 2017 ·
Invited Lecture,
“Information Assurance for Smart World Environments - Challenges and Future
Research” at JIIT-Noida - Jun. 2017 · Invited
Lecture, “Adaptive Protection of Cyber
Infrastructures with Reinforcement Learning Techniques” at IGDTUW-Delhi –
Apr. 2017 |
News
Highlights!
Professional
Service
· PC Member IEEE Big Data Congress (now IEEE SMDS) and SPACE · Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, IEEE Transactions
on Dependable and Secure Computing, and IEEE MS · Organized Training Program for Delhi Police on Encryption,
Anonymization Tools and Crypto Currencies @Police Training School in Oct 2021 · Organized Two-week ACM summer School on Cybersecurity and Data
Analytics @IIIT-Delhi in Summer 2019 · Organized Two-week Workshop on security protocols and network services
for DRDO Scientists @IIIT-Delhi in Summer 2019 · Technical program chair for CERC Security & Privacy Symposium · Panel member for hiring IT personnel for Govt. of NCT · Panel member for hiring IT personnel for Delhi Police Institute
Service ·
Faculty-in-Charge of Defense [Oct 2020 – Present] ·
MTech Coordinator - CSE (General) @IIIT-D [2018 -
present] ·
Member of Institute IT Committee [2019 – Present] ·
Coordinator of ISEA Project [2020 – Present] ·
MTech Coordinator - CSE (Information Security) @IIIT-D
[2017-2018] |
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NAACL’24 Orchid Chetia Phukan, Gautham Kashyap, Arun
Balaji Buduru and Rajesh Sharma, “Heterogeneity over Homogeneity:
Investigating Multilingual Speech Pre-Trained Models for Detecting Audio
Deepfake”, In Proceedings of Annual Conference
of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(NAACL) Findings, Mexico City, Mexico.
NATURE SciRep’24 Harsha
M, Gurpreet Singh, Vinod Kumar, Arun Balaji Buduru, and Sanat K Biswas, “Tracking
an Untracked Space Debris After an Inelastic Collision Using Physics Informed
Neural Network”, In Nature Scientific Reports volume 14, Article number: 3350
(2024)
INTERSPEECH’24 Orchid Chetia Phukan, Gautham Kashyap, Arun
Balaji Buduru and Rajesh Sharma, “Are Paralinguistic Representations
all that is needed for Speech Emotion Recognition?”. Accepted to 25th
ISCA Interspeech Conference, Kos Island, Greece
INTERSPEECH’24 Orchid Chetia Phukan, Priyabrata Mallick, Swarup
Ranjan Behera, PhD, Aalekhya Satya Narayani, Arun Balaji Buduru,
Rajesh Sharma, “Towards Multilingual Audio-Visual Question Answering”. Accepted
to 25th ISCA Interspeech Conference, Kos Island, Greece
AAAI
ICWSM’24 Neha Kumari, Vibhu Agrawal, Saurav Chhatani, Rajesh
Sharma, Arun Balaji
Buduru, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, “Understanding
Coordinated Communities Through the Lens of Protest-centric Narratives: A Case
Study on #CAA Protest”, In Proceedings of 18th International AAAI Conference on
Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2024, Buffalo-NY, USA
EUSIPCO’24 Orchid Chetia Phukan, Ankita Das, Arun Balaji
Buduru and Rajesh Sharma, “SONIC: Synergizing VisiON Foundation Models for
Stress RecogNItion from ECG signals”, Accepted to the 32nd European Signal
Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2024, Lyon, France. [Oral]
ACM
CHI’24 Christine
Chen, Ben Malone, Kendrick Mernitz, Christopher Page, Arun Balaji Buduru
and Apu Kapadia, “How well does ChatGPT detect privacy violations in photos?”, In Proceedings of GenAICHI
workshop at ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2024,
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
ACM ASONAM’24 Orchid Chetia Phukan, Rajesh Sharma and
Arun Balaji Buduru, “Whispers of Trauma: Leveraging Social Media for
Assessing Mental Health in Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse”. Accepted to 2024 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in
Social Networks Analysis and Mining. Calabria, Italy.
IEEE IJCNN’24 Yashwardhan Chaudhuri, Ankit Kumar, Arun
Balaji Buduru and Adel Alshamrani, “FGA: Fourier-Guided Attention
Network for Crowd Count Estimation”, In Proceedings of 27th
Internation Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Co-located with IEEE
WCCI, 2024, Yokohama, Japan
INTERSPEECH’23 Orchid Chetia Phukan, Arun Balaji Buduru
and Rajesh Sharma, “Transforming the Embeddings: A Lightweight Technique for
Speech Emotion Recognition Tasks”. In Proceedings of 24th ISCA
Interspeech Conference, Dublin, Ireland
NAACL’22 Divya V. Sharma and
Arun Balaji Buduru, “FAtNet: Cost-Effective Approach Towards
Mitigating the Linguistic Bias in Speaker Verification Systems”, In proceedings
of Findings of Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Seattle, USA.
ACM ASONAM’22 Neha Kumari, Vibhu Agrawal, Arun Balaji Buduru
and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, “The Pursuit of Being Heard: An Unsupervised
Approach to Narrative Detection in Online Protest”. In proceedings of 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in
Social Networks Analysis and Mining. Istanbul, Turkey.
ACM ASONAM’22 Avinash Tulasi, Mainack
Mondal, Arun Balaji Buduru and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru,
“Understanding the Impact of Awards on Award Winners and the Community on
Reddit”. In proceedings of 2022 IEEE/ACM
International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining.
Istanbul, Turkey.
ACM WebSci’22 Neha Kumari,
Agrawal, V., Kumar, V., Mohar, T., Chopra, A., Arun Balaji Buduru.,
Rajesh Sharma., Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, “A Tale of Two Sides: Study of
Protesters and Counter-protesters on #CitizenshipAmendmentAct Campaign on
Twitter”, In proceedings of 14th ACM Web Science Conference
(WebSci’22) (co-located with ACM HT’22), Barcelona, Spain.
Springer ICT’22
Saurabh Gupta, Arun Balaji Buduru, and Ponnurangam
Kumaraguru, “Differential Privacy: A privacy cloak for preserving utility in
heterogeneous datasets”, Accepted to CSI Transactions on ICT (Special Issue),
Springer Nature
ACM HT’21 Mohit Chandra, Manvith Reddy, Shradha Sehgal, Saurabh
Gupta, Arun Balaji Buduru and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, “A Virus
Has No Religion: Analyzing Islamophobia on Twitter During the COVID-19
Outbreak”, In proceedings of 32nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and
Social Media, Dublin, Ireland.
ACM WI-IAT’21 Tanvi Karandikar, Avinash Prabhu,
Avinash Tulasi, Arun Balaji Buduru, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru,
“Efficient Representation of Interaction Patterns with Hyperbolic Hierarchical
Clustering for Classification of Users on Twitter”. In proceedings of 20th
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent
Technology. Melbourne, Australia.
ACM ASONAM’21 Neha Kumari, Tushar Mohan, Arun
Balaji Buduru, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, “Truth and Travesty
Intertwined: A Case Study of #SSR Counter public Campaign”. In proceedings of
2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis
and Mining. The Hague, Netherlands
NLP4DH’21 Avinash Tulasi, Asanobu
Kitamoto, Arun Balaji Buduru, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, “An
Exploratory Study on Temporally Evolving Discussions around COVID-19 using
Diachronic Word Embeddings”. Accepted at Workshop on Natural Language
Processing for Digital Humanities (co-located with ICON 2021)
IEEE TPS’20 Saurabh Gupta, Arun Balaji Buduru and
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, “imdpGAN: Generating Private and Specific Data with
Generative Adversarial Networks”, In Proceedings of Second IEEE International
Conference on Trust, Privacy, and Security in Intelligent Systems, and
Applications, Co-located with IEEE CogML and CIC, Pittsburgh, USA.
IEEE SMDS’20 Saurabh Gupta, Siddhant Bhambri, Karan Dhingra, Arun
Balaji Buduru and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, “Multi-objective
reinforcement learning based approach for User-centric power optimization in
smart home environments”, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on
Smart Data Services, Co-located with IEEE ICWS, Beijing, China.
SocInfo’20 Saurabh Gupta, Anant Agarwal, Suryatej Reddy Vyalla, Arun Balaji
Buduru and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, “#IVoted to #IGotPwned: Studying
Voter Privacy Leaks in Indian Lok Sabha Elections on Twitter”, In proceedings
of 12th International Conference on Social Informatics, Pisa, Italy.
[Poster]
SocInfo’20 Kanay Gupta, Avinash Tulasi, Omkar Gurjar, Sathvik Buggana, Paras Mehan,
Arun Balaji Buduru, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, “Who Won it
Online? A comparative study of 2019 Indian General Elections on Twitter”, In
proceedings of 12th International Conference on Social Informatics,
Pisa, Italy. [Best Poster Award]
IEEE BigMM’20 Mudit Verma and Arun Balaji Buduru,
“Fine-Grained Language Identification with Multilingual CapsNet Model”,
Proceedings of 6th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big
Data, New Delhi, India. [Invited]
IEEE BigMM’20 Rahul Madan, Kanishk Rana and Arun Balaji Buduru,
“Assessing risk of attacks in large networked system with Context Sensitive
Probabilistic Modelling”, Proceedings of 6th IEEE International
Conference on Multimedia Big Data, New Delhi, India.
IEEE BigMM’20 Saurabh Gupta, Asmit Kumar Singh, Arun Balaji
Buduru and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, “Hashtags are (not) judgmental: The
untold story of Lok Sabha elections 2019”, Proceedings of the 6th
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data, New Delhi, India.
ACM SAC’19 Shubham Singh, Rishabh Kaushal, Arun Balaji
Buduru and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, “KidsGUARD: fine grained approach
for child unsafe video representation and detection”, Proceedings of the 34th
ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, Brno, Czech Republic.
AAMAS’18 Anil Sharma and Arun Balaji Buduru,
“Foresee: Attentive Future Projections of Chaotic Road Environments”,
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous
Agents and MultiAgent Systems, Stockholm, Norway.
IEEE ICCC’18 Divam Gupta, Indira Sen, Niharika Sachdeva,
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Arun Balaji Buduru, "Empowering
First Responders through Automated Multimodal Content Moderation",
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing, San
Francisco, USA. [Best Paper Award]
IEEE DASC’16 Sayantan Guha, Stephen S. Yau and Arun Balaji
Buduru, "Attack Detection in Cloud Infrastructures Using
Artificial Neural Network with Genetic Feature Selection", Proceedings of
IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing,
Auckland, New Zealand.
IEEE QRS’15 Arun
Balaji Buduru and Stephen
S. Yau, "An Effective Approach to Continuous User Authentication for Touch
Screen Smart Devices", In proceedings of IEEE International Conference on
Quality, Reliability and Security, Vancouver, Canada.
IEEE CLOUD’15 Stephen S. Yau, Arun Balaji Buduru and
Vinjith Nagaraja, "Protecting Critical Cloud Infrastructures with
Predictive Capability", In proceedings of IEEE 8th
International Conference on Cloud Computing, New York, USA.
Mobile Services’14 Stephen S. Yau and Arun Balaji Buduru,
"Intelligent Planning for Developing Mobile IoT Applications Using Cloud
Systems", In proceedings of 3rd IEEE International Conference
on Mobile Services, Anchorage, USA.
Mobile Services’14 S. I. Ahamed, I. Addo, Stephen S. Yau, Arun
Balaji Buduru, "A Reference Architecture for Improving Security
and Privacy in Internet of Things Applications", In proceedings of 3rd
IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services, Anchorage, USA.
Computing’14 S.
S. Yau, Y. Yao, Arun Balaji Buduru, "An Adaptable
Distributed Trust Management Framework for Large-scale Secure Service-based
Systems", Computing Journal, Springer, Vol 96(10), 2014, pp. 925-949
IJSC’14 D.
Addo, S. I. Ahamed, S. S. Yau, Arun Balaji Buduru,
"Reference Architectures for Privacy Preservation in Cloud-based IoT
Applications", International Journal of Services Computing (IJSC), Vol
2(4), 2014, pp.65-78
IJWSR’13 S. S. Yau, H. G. An, Arun
Balaji Buduru, "An Approach to Data Confidentiality Protection in
Cloud Environments", International Journal of Web Services Research, Vol
9(3), 2013, pp. 67-83.