Rishab Nithyanand

Yash Vekaria, Rishab Nithyanand, Zubair Shafiq. Towards Multi-Stakeholder Vulnerability Notifications in the Ad-Tech Supply Chain. IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy · pp. 874-891, 2026.

Chen Sun, Yash Vekaria, Zubair Shafiq, Rishab Nithyanand. Turning Trust to Transactions: Tracking Affiliate Marketing and FTC Compliance in YouTube’s Influencer Economy. International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · 20(1) · pp. 2252-2266, 2026.

Manisha Keim, Sarmad Chandio, Osama Khalid, Rishab Nithyanand. Measuring the Semantic Structure and Evolution of Conspiracy Theories. International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · 20(1) · pp. 1202-1215, 2026.

Sarmad Chandio, Rishab Nithyanand. Examining the Role of YouTube Production and Consumption Dynamics on the Formation of Extreme Ideologies. International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · 20(1) · pp. 407-420, 2026.

Bhaskar Kataria, Hammas Bin Tanveer, Rishab Nithyanand, Rachee Singh. What Obstructed Skies Teach Us about Satellite Internet. New Ideas in Networked Systems, 2026.

Chen Sun, Yash Vekaria, Rishab Nithyanand. On the Suitability of LLM-Driven Agents for Dark Pattern Audits. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies · 2026(4) · pp. 927–946, 2026.

Mihailis E. Diamantis, Chen Sun, Rishab Nithyanand. Information About Data. Yale Journal of Law & Technology · 28(Symposium Issue) · pp. 238-278, 2026.

Hussam Habib, Ryan Stoldt, Andrew High, Brian Ekdale, Ashley Peterson, Katy Biddle, Javie Ssozi, Rishab Nithyanand. Searching for Affirmation: How Partisan Audiences on Google Search Induce an Abortion-Related Filter Bubble Effect. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · 9(7) · pp. 1-31, 2025.

Hussam Habib, Rishab Nithyanand. Youtube recommendations reinforce negative emotions: Auditing algorithmic bias with emotionally-agentic sock puppets. arXiv, 2025.

Ian Martiny, Hammas Bin Tanveer, Jack Wampler, Rishab Nithyanand, Eric Wustrow. Mind the IP Gap: Measuring the impact of IPv6 on DNS censorship. arXiv, 2025.

Jack Wampler, Hammas Bin Tanveer, Rishab Nithyanand, Eric Wustrow. Protoscan: measuring censorship in IPv6. arXiv, 2025.

Hussam Habib, Ryan Stoldt, Raven Maragh-Lloyd, Brian Ekdale, Rishab Nithyanand. Uncovering the interaction equation: Quantifying the effect of user interactions on social media homepage recommendations. arXiv, 2024.

Yash Vekaria, Rishab Nithyanand, Zubair Shafiq. Turning the tide on dark pools? towards multi-stakeholder vulnerability notifications in the ad-tech supply chain. arXiv, 2024.

Maaz Bin Musa, Steven M. Winston, Garrison Allen, Jacob Schiller, Kevin Moore, Sean Quick, Johnathan Melvin, Padmini Srinivasan, Mihailis E. Diamantis, Rishab Nithyanand. C3PA: An Open Dataset of Expert-Annotated and Regulation-Aware Privacy Policies to Enable Scalable Regulatory Compliance Audits. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · pp. 3710-3722, 2024.

Yash Vekaria, Rishab Nithyanand, Zubair Shafiq. The Inventory is Dark and Full of Misinformation: Understanding the Abuse of Ad Inventory Pooling in the Ad-Tech Supply Chain. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2024.

Sarmad Chandio, Muhammad Daniyal Pirwani Dar, Rishab Nithyanand. How Audit Methods Impact Our Understanding of YouTube’s Recommendation Systems. International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · 18 · pp. 241-253, 2024.

Hammas Bin Tanveer, Mike Puchol, Rachee Singh, Antonio Bianchi, Rishab Nithyanand. Making Sense of Constellations: Methodologies for Understanding Starlink's Scheduling Algorithms. ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, 2023.

Mihailis E. Diamantis, Maaz Bin Musa, Lucas Ausberger, Rishab Nithyanand. Forms of Disclosure: The Path to Automating Closed Book Privacy Audits. Harvard Journal of Law & Technology · 37(3) · pp. 1265-1294, 2023.

Mihailis E. Diamantis, Rishab Nithyanand. Beyond the FTC: Introduction. Harvard Journal of Law & Technology · 37(3) · pp. 1001-1005, 2023.

Hussam Habib, Rishab Nithyanand. The Morbid Realities of Social Media: An Investigation into the Misinformation Shared by the Deceased Victims of COVID-19. International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2023.

Hammas Bin Tanveer, Rachee Singh, Paul Pearce, Rishab Nithyanand. Glowing in the Dark: Uncovering IPv6 Address Discovery and Scanning Strategies in the Wild. USENIX Security Symposium · pp. 6221-6237, 2023.

Arun Dunna, Katherine A Keith, Ethan Zuckerman, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Brendan O'Connor, Rishab Nithyanand. Paying Attention to the Algorithm Behind the Curtain: Bringing Transparency to YouTube's Demonetization Algorithms. ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2022.

Hussam Habib, Padmini Srinivasan, Rishab Nithyanand. Making a Radical Misogynist: How online social engagement with the Manosphere influences traits of radicalization. ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2022.

Arghya Bhattacharya, Abiyaz Chowdhury, Helen Xu, Rathish Das, Rezaul A. Chowdhury, Rob Johnson, Rishab Nithyanand, Michael A. Bender. When Are Cache-Oblivious Algorithms Cache Adaptive? A Case Study of Matrix Multiplication and Sorting. European Symposium on Algorithms · 244 · pp. 16:1-16:17, 2022.

Hussam Habib, Maaz Bin Musa, Muhammad Fareed Zaffar, Rishab Nithyanand. Are Proactive Interventions for Reddit Communities Feasible?. International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · 16 · pp. 264-274, 2022.

Hussam Habib, Rishab Nithyanand. Exploring the Magnitude and Effects of Media Influence on Reddit Moderation. International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · 16 · pp. 275-286, 2022.

Ryan Stoldt, Andrew High, Ashley Peterson, Kathryn Biddle, Raven Maragh-Lloyd, Rishab Nithyanand, Brian Ekdale, Timothy Havens, Hussam Habib, John Thiede. Relationships Among Vaccination Attitudes, Social Media Use, and Activist vs. Radical Behavior. International Communication Association Annual Conference, 2022.

Maaz Bin Musa, Rishab Nithyanand. ATOM: Ad-network Tomography: A Generalizable Technique for Inferring Tracker-Advertiser Data Sharing in the Online Behavioral Advertising Ecosystem. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies · 4 · pp. 295-313, 2022.

Shahrooz Pouryousef, Muhammad Daniyal Dar, Suleman Ahmad, Phillipa Gill, Rishab Nithyanand. Extortion or Expansion? An Investigation into the Costs and Consequences of ICANN’s gTLD Experiments. International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement · pp. 141-157, 2020.

John Cook, Rishab Nithyanand, Zubair Shafiq. Inferring Tracker-Advertiser Relationships in the Online Advertising Ecosystem using Header Bidding. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies · 2020(1) · pp. 65-82, 2020.

Syed Suleman Ahmad, Muhammad Daniyal Dar, Muhammad Fareed Zaffar, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Rishab Nithyanand. Apophanies or Epiphanies? How Crawlers Impact Our Understanding of the Web. The Web Conference, 2020.

Rachee Singh, Rishab Nithyanand, Sadia Afroz, Paul Pearce, Michael Carl Tschantz, Phillipa Gill, Vern Paxson. Characterizing the Nature and Dynamics of Tor Exit Blocking. Applied Networking Research Workshop, 2018.

Abbas Razaghpanah, Rishab Nithyanand, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Srikanth Sundaresan, Mark Allman, Christian Kreibich, Phillipa Gill. Apps, Trackers, Privacy, and Regulators: A Global Study of the Mobile Tracking Ecosystem. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2018.

Shinyoung Cho, Rishab Nithyanand, Abbas Razaghpanah, Phillipa Gill. A Churn for the Better: Localizing Censorship using Network-level Path Churn and Network Tomography. ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, 2017.

Rishab Nithyanand. DOCTor: Defending and Opening Communication on Tor. Stony Brook University, 2017.

Rachee Singh, Rishab Nithyanand, Sadia Afroz, Paul Pearce, Michael Carl Tschantz, Phillipa Gill, Vern Paxson. Characterizing the Nature and Dynamics of Tor Exit Blocking. USENIX Security Symposium, 2017.

Rishab Nithyanand, Brian Schaffner, Phillipa Gill. Measuring Offensive Speech in Online Political Discourse. USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet, 2017.

Abbas Razaghpanah, Anke Li, Arturo Filastò, Rishab Nithyanand, Vasilis Ververis, Will Scott, Phillipa Gill. Exploring the Design Space of Longitudinal Censorship Measurement Platforms. arXiv, 2016.

Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Srikanth Sundaresan, Abbas Razaghpanah, Rishab Nithyanand, Mark Allman, Christian Kreibich, Phillipa Gill. Tracking the trackers: Towards understanding the mobile advertising and tracking ecosystem. arXiv, 2016.

Rishab Nithyanand, Rachee Singh, Shinyoung Cho, Phillipa Gill. Holding all the ases: Identifying and circumventing the pitfalls of as-aware tor client design. arXiv, 2016.

Bridger Hahn, Rishab Nithyanand, Phillipa Gill, Rob Johnson. Games Without Frontiers: Investigating Video Games as a Covert Channel. IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2016.

Rishab Nithyanand, Oleksii Starov, Adva Zair, Phillipa Gill, Michael Schapira. Measuring and Mitigating AS-level Adversaries Against Tor. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2016.

Hamed Haddadi, Rishab Nithyanand, Sheharbano Khattak, Mobin Javed, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Marjan Falahrastegar, Julia E. Powles, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Steven J. Murdoch. The Adblocking Tug-of-War. USENIX ;login: · 41(4) · pp. 41-43, 2016.

Rishab Nithyanand, Sheharbano Khattak, Mobin Javed, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Marjan Falahrastegar, Julia E Powles, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Hamed Haddadi, Steven J Murdoch. Adblocking and Counter Blocking: A Slice of the Arms Race.. USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet, 2016.

Xiang Cai, Rishab Nithyanand, Tao Wang, Rob Johnson, Ian Goldberg. A systematic approach to developing and evaluating website fingerprinting defenses. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2014.

Rishab Nithyanand, Xiang Cai, Rob Johnson. Glove: A Bespoke Website Fingerprinting Defense. ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, 2014.

Xiang Cai, Rishab Nithyanand, Rob Johnson. CS-BuFLO: A Congestion Sensitive Website Fingerprinting Defense. ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, 2014.

Tao Wang, Xiang Cai, Rishab Nithyanand, Rob Johnson, Ian Goldberg. Effective Attacks and Provable Defenses for Website Fingerprinting. USENIX Security Symposium, 2014.

Rishab Nithyanand, Rob Johnson. The password allocation problem: strategies for reusing passwords effectively. ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, 2013.

Alfred Kobsa, Rishab Nithyanand, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun. Can Jannie verify? Usability of display-equipped RFID tags for security purposes. Journal of Computer Security · 21(3) · pp. 347-370, 2013.

Rishab Nithyanand, John Solis. A Theoretical Analysis: Physical Unclonable Functions and The Software Protection Problem. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, 2012.

Rishab Nithyanand, Radu Sion, John Solis. POSTER: Making the case for intrinsic personal physical unclonable functions (IP-PUFs). ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2011.

Alfred Kobsa, Rishab Nithyanand, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun. Usability of Display-Equipped RFID Tags for Security Purposes. European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, 2011.

Rishab Nithyanand, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun. User-aided reader revocation in PKI-based RFID systems. Journal of Computer Security · 19(6) · pp. 1147-1172, 2011.

Rishab Nithyanand, Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun. Groupthink: usability of secure group association for wireless devices. ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing · pp. 331-340, 2010.

Rishab Nithyanand, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun. Readers Behaving Badly: Reader Revocation in PKI-Based RFID Systems. European Symposium on Research in Computer Security · pp. 19-36, 2010.

Rishab Nithyanand. A Survey on the Evolution of Cryptographic Protocols in ePassports. IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive · 2009(200), 2009.

Rishab Nithyanand, Karthik Raman. Fuzzy Privacy Preserving Peer-to-Peer Reputation Management.. IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive · 2009 · pp. 442, 2009.