Bio
Sohom Datta is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. He worked at the WSPR lab in Spring 2023 as a research intern and then subsequently re-joined as a PhD student in Fall 2024. He is being advised by Dr. Alex Kapravelos. His current focus is on understanding the web privacy and security landscape. Sohom received his Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology in India in 2023. When he is not staring at (web) browsers, Sohom likes to edit Wikipedia and contribute to open-source projects.
Publications
- 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.
- 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.