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Anupam Das

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www.anupamdas.org

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Bio

Anupam Das is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. His research broadly spans security and privacy, with a focus on designing secure and privacy-preserving technologies. His work aims to understand and mitigate emerging risks in the era of the Internet of Things (IoT) and generative AI. More recently, he has been developing techniques and systems that not only assess security, privacy, and safety challenges but also improve transparency and user control over how personal data is collected and used by emerging technologies. Prior to joining NC State, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2016 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was a recipient of Fulbright Science and Technology fellowship. He previously served as an Assistant Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

Publications

  • Dilawer Ahmed, Aafaq Sabir, Ahsan Zafar, and Anupam Das, PriVA-C: Defending Voice Assistants from Fingerprinting Attacks, in Proceedings of the 26th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), Jul. 2026.
  • Aafaq Sabir, Abhinaya S.B., Dilawer Ahmed, and Anupam Das, Privacy by Voice: Designing Usable Privacy Interventions for the Voice Interface, in Proceedings of the 26th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), Jul. 2026.
  • Ummay Kulsum, Aafaq Sabir, Abhinaya S.B., and Anupam Das, Beyond Metadata: Multimodal, Policy-Aware Detection of YouTube Scam Videos, in Proceedings of the 20th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), May 2026.
  • Taufiq Islam Protick, Sai Teja Peddinti, Nina Taft, and Anupam Das, LLM-Powered Analysis of IoT User Reviews: Tracking and Ranking Security and Privacy Concerns, in Proceedings of the 20th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), May 2026.
  • Sohom Datta, Michalis Diamantaris, Ahsan Zafar, Junhua Su, Anupam Das, Jason Polakis, and Alexandros Kapravelos, Cross-Boundary Mobile Tracking: Exploring Java-to-JavaScript Information Diffusion in WebViews, in Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, Feb. 2026.
  • Shakil Ahmed, Md. Mahedi Hasan Rigan, Md. Shohrab Hossain, and Anupam Das, Detecting Stealthy Web Bots: A Behavioral Analysis Framework for OpenWPM Automation, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 3696–3707, Dec. 2025.
  • John Salvador, Naman Bansal, Mousumi Akter, Souvika Sarkar, Anupam Das, and Santu Karmaker, Benchmarking LLMs on the Semantic Overlap Summarization Task, in Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Nov. 2025.
  • Ahsan Zafar, Junhua Su, Sohom Datta, Alexandros Kapravelos, and Anupam Das, Same Script, Different Behavior: Characterizing Platform-Specific Divergent JavaScript Execution, in Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Nov. 2025.
  • Aafaq Sabir, Abhinaya S.B., Dilawer Ahmed, and Anupam Das, Analyzing Ad Prevalence, Characteristics, and Compliance in Alexa Skills, in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), May 2025.
  • Ahsan Zafar and Anupam Das, Assessing Compliance in Digital Advertising: A Deep Dive into Acceptable Ads Standards, in Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (WWW), Apr. 2025, pp. 1–12.
  • Abhinaya S.B., Abhishri Agrawal, Yaxing Yao, Yixin Zou, and Anupam Das, "What are they gonna do with my data?": Privacy Expectations, Concerns, and Behaviors in Virtual Reality, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs), vol. 2025, no. 1, 2025.
  • Shaown Sarker, William Melicher, Oleksii Starov, Anupam Das, and Alexandros Kapravelos, Automated Generation of Behavioral Signatures for Malicious Web Campaigns, in Proceedings of the 27th Information Security Conference (ISC), Oct. 2024.
  • Shaown Sarker, Aleksandr Nahapetyan, Anupam Das, and Alexandros Kapravelos, JSHint: Revealing API Usage to Improve Detection of Malicious JavaScript, in Proceedings of the 27th Information Security Conference (ISC), Oct. 2024.
  • Abhinaya S.B., Aafaq Sabir, and Anupam Das, Enabling Developers, Protecting Users: Investigating Harassment and Safety in VR, in Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), Aug. 2024.
  • Jiaxun Cao, Abhinaya S.B., Anupam Das, and Pardis Emami-Naeini, Understanding Parents’ Perceptions and Practices Toward Children’s Security and Privacy in Virtual Reality, in Proceedings of 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), May 2024.
  • Md Jakaria, Danny Yuxing Huang, and Anupam Das, Connecting the Dots: Tracing Data Endpoints in IoT Devices, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs), vol. 2024, no. 3, 2024.
  • Mohammad Shamim Ahsan, Md. Shariful Islam, Md. Shohrab Hossain, and Anupam Das, Detecting Smart Home Device Activities Using Packet-Level Signatures from Encrypted Traffic, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, no. 01, pp. 1–12, 2024.
  • Taufiq Islam Protick, Aafaq Sabir, S.B. Abhinaya, and Anupam Das, Unveiling Users’ Security and Privacy Concerns Regarding Smart Home IoT Products from Online Reviews, ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 2024.
  • Dilawer Ahmed, Aafaq Sabir, and Anupam Das, Spying through your voice assistants: Realistic voice command fingerprinting, in Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), Aug. 2023.
  • Zhouyu Li, Ruozhou Yu, Anupam Das, Shaohu Zhang, Huayue Gu, Xiaojian Wang, Fangtong Zhou, Aafaq Sabir, Dilawer Ahmed, and Ahsan Zafar, INSPIRE: Instance-level Privacy-preserving Transformation for Vehicular Camera Videos, in Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Jul. 2023.
  • Shaohu Zhang, Aafaq Sabir, and Anupam Das, Speaker Orientation-Aware Privacy Control to Thwart Misactivation of Voice Assistants, in Proceedings of the 53rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Network (IEEE IFIP DSN), Jun. 2023.
  • Md Adnan Arefeen, Zhouyu Li, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, and Anupam Das, MetaMorphosis: Task-oriented Privacy Cognizant Feature Generation for Multi-task Learning, in Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), May 2023.
  • Shaohu Zhang, Zhouyu Li, and Anupam Das, VoicePM: A Robust Privacy Measurement on Voice Anonymity, in Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), May 2023.
  • Shaohu Zhang, Daniel Nolting, and Anupam Das, Heat Marks the Spot: De-Anonymizing User’s Geographical Data on the Strava Heatmap, in 7th Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro), May 2023.
  • Ahsan Zafar and Anupam Das, Comparative Privacy Analysis of Mobile Browsers, in Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), Apr. 2023.
  • Aafaq Sabir, Evan Lafontaine, and Anupam Das, Analyzing the Impact and Accuracy of Facebook Activity on Facebook’s Ad-Interest Inference Process, in Proceedings of the ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW), Nov. 2022.
  • Dilawer Ahmed, Anupam Das, and Fareed Zaffar, Analyzing the Feasibility and Generalizability of Fingerprinting Internet of Things Devices, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs), vol. 2022, no. 2, Jul. 2022.
  • Aafaq Sabir, Evan Lafontaine, and Anupam Das, Hey Alexa, Who Am I Talking to?: Analyzing Users’ Perception and Awareness Regarding Third-party Alexa Skills, in Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Apr. 2022.
  • Shaohu Zhang and Anupam Das, HandLock: Enabling 2-FA for Smart Home Voice Assistants using Inaudible Acoustic Signal, in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), Oct. 2021.
  • Tanusree Sharma, Md. Mirajul Islam, Anupam Das, S. M. Taiabul Haque, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Privacy during Pandemic: A Global View of Privacy Practices around COVID-19 Apps, in Proceedings of the ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS), Jun. 2021.
  • Ahsan Zafar, Aafaq Sabir, Dilawer Ahmed, and Anupam Das, Understanding the Privacy Implications of Adblock Plus’s Acceptable Ads, in Proceedings of the 16th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Jun. 2021.
  • Evan Lafontaine, Aafaq Sabir, and Anupam Das, Understanding People’s Attitude and Concerns towardsAdopting IoT Devices, in Proceedings CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’21 Extended Abstracts), May 2021.
  • Christopher Lentzsch, Sheel Jayesh Shah, Martin Degeling, Benjamin Andow, Anupam Das, and William Enck, Hey Alexa, is this Skill Safe?: Taking a Closer Look at the Alexa Skill Ecosystem, in Proceedings of the ISOC Network and Distributed Systems Symposium (NDSS), Feb. 2021.
  • Shikun Zhang, Yuanyuan Feng, Lujo Bauer, Lorrie Cranor, Anupam Das, and Norman Sadeh, “Did you know this camera tracks your mood?”: Understanding Privacy Expectations and Preferences in the Age of Video Analytics, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETS), vol. 2021, no. 2, 2021.
  • Camille Cobb, Milijana Surbatovich, Anna Kawakami, Mahmood Sharif, Lujo Bauer, Anupam Das, and Limin Jia, The How Risky are Real Users’ IFTTT Applets?, in Proceedings of the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), Aug. 2020.