About
I’m a PhD student in Computer Science at Georgia Tech (GT), fortunate to be advised by Dr. Frank Li.
My research interests lie broadly in data-driven studies of real-world computer security problems, often involving large-scale data mining of network measurements. These days, I'm working on:
- [GT] investigating local network communications on websites.
- [GT] investigating the YouTube view fraud ecosystem.
- [PayPal] exploring passwordless authentication as an alternate to passwords online.
During Summer 2021, I'm interning with the Applied Research (Information Security) team at PayPal, supervised by Dr. Adam Oest and Dr. RC Johnson.
Previously, I have worked on:
- Human Factors in Security with Prof. Elissa Redmiles and Prof. Michelle Mazurek @ UMD:
- Measuring and improving readability of security advice.
- Evaluating response biases in security user studies.
- Security and Privacy in Social Computing with Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru @ IIIT-D:
- Detecting cross-platform spam on online social networks.
- Detecting and mitigating misinformation on WhatsApp.
Reach me at dkuchhal@{gatech.edu, paypal.com}.
Publications
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A View into YouTube View Fraud.
Dhruv Kuchhal and Frank Li.
currently under review
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Knock and Talk: Investigating Local Network Communications on Websites.
Dhruv Kuchhal and Frank Li.
currently under review
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Comparing and Developing Tools to Measure the Readability of Domain-Specific Texts.
Elissa Redmiles, Lisa Maszkiewicz, Emily Hwang, Dhruv Kuchhal, Everest Liu, Miraida Morales, Denis Peskov, Sudha Rao, Rock Stevens, Kristina Gligorić, Sean Kross, Michelle Mazurek, and Hal Daumé III.
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2019.
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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, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru.
The Journal of Web Science 2019.
Invited article from ACM WebScience, 2018
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Asking for a Friend: Evaluating Response Biases in Security User Studies
Elissa Redmiles, Ziyun Zhu, Sean Kross, Dhruv Kuchhal, Tudor Dumitras, and Michelle Mazurek.
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2018.
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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, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru.
ACM WebScience Conference, 2018.
Runner Up Best Student Paper Award