Hi, I’m Dhruv Kuchhal

I’m a PhD student in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, starting Fall 2019. My research interests lie broadly in security and privacy.

Previously, my work with Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (“PK”) at PreCog@IIIT-Delhi, on detecting and characterizing spam on social networks won the Best Student Paper Runner-up at ACM WebScience 2018, and our work on building intelligent solutions to mitigate Misinformation on WhatsApp got featured in leading Indian media Times of India.

I also worked with Prof. Michelle Mazurek and Elissa Redmiles, of University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) on measuring (USENIX 2018), understanding (IEEE ConPro 2018) and improving (ACM CCS 2018) the quality of security advice, which led us to develop and compare tools to measure the readability of domain-specific texts (EMNLP 2019). I also presented a poster on security mechanism design at ACM CCS 2018 in Toronto, Canada.

Dhruv Kuchhal

During undergrad, my team won the Smart India Hackathon 2017, an annual hackathon organized by the Government of India in which more than 10,000 students participated. I also received the ACM Recognition of Service Award for chairing the student chapter at my undergraduate institute - MAIT.

I am a hardcore Elon Musk fan and when not working, I like to read & watch non-fiction (Malcolm Gladwell is my all-time-favourite). I also enjoy photography whenever I get the chance!

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Analyzing misinformation on WhatsApp.

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Prediction of Admission & Jobs in Engineering & Technology

Winning prototype designed during Smart India Hackathon 2017.

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Comparing and Developing Tools to Measure the Readability of Domain-Specific Texts Elissa M. Redmiles, Lisa Maszkiewicz, Emily Hwang, Dhruv Kuchhal, Everest Liu, Miraida Morales, Denis Peskov, Sudha Rao, Rock Stevens, Kristina Gligorić, Sean Kross, Michelle L. Mazurek, Hal Daumé III. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2019. Angel or Demon? Characterizing Variations Across Twitter Timeline of Technical Support Campaigners Srishti Gupta, Gurpreet Singh Bhatia, Saksham Suri, Dhruv Kuchhal, Payas Gupta, Mustaque Ahamad, Manish Gupta, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru. The Journal of Web Science, 2019. Asking for a Friend: Evaluating Response Biases in Security User Studies Elissa M. Redmiles, Ziyun Zhu, Sean Kross, Dhruv Kuchhal, Tudor Dumitras, Michelle L. Mazurek. ACM CCS, 2018. Under the Shadow of Sunshine: Characterizing Spam Campaigns Abusing Phone Numbers Across Online Social Networks Srishti Gupta, Dhruv Kuchhal, Payas Gupta, Mustaque Ahamad, Manish Gupta, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru. ACM WebScience, 2018.
Runner Up Best Student Paper Award

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News

  • Our work creating and evaluating the validity of readability metrics for domain specific adult corpora (including security documents) has been accepted to #EMNLP2019 !
  • After PhD offers from Georgia Tech, UIUC, USC, CISPA-Germany and NCSU, all of which had phenomenal potential advisors, I am thrilled to accept Georgia Tech’s offer for PhD in Computer Science.

Travel

Feb 27–Mar 10, '19 University of Southern California PhD CS Visit Days, Los Angeles, California, United States
Feb 21–27, '19 Georgia Tech PhD CS Visit Days, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Oct 13–23, '18 ACM CCS 2018, Toronto, Canada