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Abhinaya S B

  • PhD Student
Website
grangergirl.github.io

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Bio

Abhinaya S B is a Ph.D. student advised by Dr. Anupam Das and joined the WSPR lab in Fall 2022. Her research interests include usable security and privacy in emerging computing technologies, specifically focusing on VR privacy. She earned her Bachelor’s in Computer Science from NIT Trichy, India, in 2019. She worked as a Software Architect at Qualcomm for three years before starting grad school.

Publications

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.