publications

@article{Oakland-2024,
  title = {{The Inventory is Dark and Full of Misinformation: Understanding
               the Abuse of Ad Inventory Pooling in the Ad-Tech Supply Chain}},
  author = {Vekaria, Yash and Nithyanand, Rishab and Shafiq, Zubair},
  journal = {IEEE Symposium on Security \& Privacy},
  year = {2024},
}

@article{ICWSM-2024,
  title = {{Apophanies or Epiphanies? How Auditing Methodologies Can Impact
               Our Understanding of YouTube's Recommendation Systems}},
  author = {Chandio, Sarmad and Dar, Daniyal and Nithyanand, Rishab},
  journal = {International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)},
  year = {2024},
}

@incollection{DiamantisMihailisE20232Aat,
  title = {AI and the Law: Can the Legal System Help Us Maximize Paperclips and Minimize Deaths?},
  address = {},
  author = {Diamantis, Mihailis E. and Cochran, Rebekah and Dam, Miranda},
  booktitle = {Technology Ethics},
  edition = {1},
  editor = {Robson, Gregory J. and Tsou, Jonathan Y.},
  doi = {10.4324/9781003189466-32},
  isbn = {9781032038704},
  language = {eng},
  pages = {242 - 249},
  publisher = {Routledge},
  year = {2023},
}

@article{diamantis2023employed,
  title = {Employed Algorithms: A labor model for corporate liability for AI},
  author = {Diamantis, Mihailis E},
  journal = {Duke Law Journal},
  volume = {72},
  number = {4},
  year = {2023},
}

@article{CoNEXT-2023,
  title = {{Making Sense of Constellations: Methodologies for Understanding
               Starlink's Scheduling Algorithms}},
  author = {Tanveer, Hammas Bin and Puchol, Mike and Singh, Rachee and Bianchi, Antonio and Nithyanand, Rishab},
  year = {2023},
  journal = {ACM International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments
                 and Technologies (CoNEXT)},
}

@article{JOLT-2023,
  title = {{Forms of Disclosure: The Path to Automated Data Privacy Audits}},
  author = {Diamantis, Mihailis and Musa, Maaz Bin and Ausberger, Lucas and Nithyanand, Rishab},
  journal = {Harvard Journal of Law \& Technology (Forthcoming)},
  volume = {37},
  number = {3},
  year = {2023},
}

@article{USENIX-2023,
  title = {Glowing in the Dark: Uncovering IPv6 Address Discovery and Scanning Strategies in the Wild},
  author = {Tanveer, Hammas Bin and Pearce, Paul and Singh, Rachee and Nithyanand, Rishab},
  journal = {USENIX Security Symposium},
  year = {2023},
}

@article{icwsm-2023,
  title = {The Morbid Realities of Social Media: An Investigation into the
                Misinformation Shared by the Deceased Victims of COVID-19},
  author = {Habib, Hussam and Nithyanand, Rishab},
  journal = {International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)},
  year = {2023},
}

@article{cscw-2022-1,
  author = {Dunna, Arun and Keith, Katherine and Zuckerman, Ethan and Vallina-Rodriguez, Narseo and O'Connor, Brendan and Nithyanand, Rishab},
  title = {Paying Attention to the Algorithm Behind the Curtain: Bringing
      Transparency to YouTube's Demonetization Algorithms},
  journal = {ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)},
  year = {2022},
}

@article{cscw-2022-2,
  title = {Pathways to Radical Misogyny: How Participation, Interaction, and
    Perception in Online Communities Increase Radical Behavior},
  author = {Habib, Hussam and Srinivasan, Padmini and Nithyanand, Rishab},
  journal = {ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)},
  year = {2022},
}

@article{icwsm-2022-2,
  title = {Exploring the Magnitude and Effects of Media Influence on Reddit},
  author = {Habib, Hussam and Nithyanand, Rishab},
  journal = {International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)},
  year = {2022},
}

@article{icwsm-2022-1,
  author = {Habib, Hussam and Musa, Maaz Bin and Zaffar, Fareed and Nithyanand, Rishab},
  title = {Are Proactive Interventions for Reddit Communities Feasible?},
  journal = {International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)},
  year = {2022},
}

@article{ica-2022,
  title = {Relationships Among Vaccination Attitudes, Social Media Use, and Activist vs. Radical Behavior},
  author = {Stoldt, Ryan and High, Andrew and Peterson, Ashley and Biddle, Kathryn and Maragh-Lloyd, Raven and Nithyanand, Rishab and Ekdale, Brian and Havens, Timothy and Habib, Hussam and Thiede, John},
  journal = {72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference (ICA)},
  year = {2022},
}

@article{esa-2022,
  title = {When Are Cache-Oblivious Algorithms Cache Adaptive?  A Case Study of Matrix Multiplication and Sorting},
  author = {Bhattacharya, Arghya and Xu, Helen and Chowdhury, Abiyaz and Chowdhury, Rezaul and Das, Rathish and Johnson, Rob and Nithyanand, Rishab and Bender, Michael},
  journal = {European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA)},
  year = {2022},
}

@article{pets-2022,
  title = {ATOM: A Generalizable Technique for Inferring Tracker-Advertiser Data Sharing in the Online Behavioral Advertising Ecosystem},
  author = {Musa, Maaz Bin and Nithyanand, Rishab},
  journal = {Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)},
  year = {2022},
  award = {Andreas Pfitzmann Award Runner-up},
}

@article{diamantis2020extended,
  title = {The Extended Corporate Mind: When Corporations Use AI to Break the Law},
  author = {Diamantis, Mihailis E},
  journal = {North Carolina Law Review},
  volume = {98},
  number = {4},
  pages = {893},
  year = {2020},
}

@article{Ahmad-WWW2020,
  author = {Ahmad, Suleman and Dar, Daniyal and Vallina-Rodriguez, Narseo and Zaffar, Fareed and Nithyanand, Rishab},
  journal = {The Web Conference (WWW)},
  title = {Apophanies or Epiphanies? How Crawlers Impact Our Understanding of the Web},
  year = {2020},
}

@article{Cook-PETS2020,
  author = {Cook, John and Nithyanand, Rishab and Shafiq, Zubair},
  journal = {Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)},
  title = {Inferring Tracker-Advertiser Relationships in the Online Advertising Ecosystem using Header Bidding},
  year = {2020},
  volume = {abs/1907.07275},
}

@article{Pouryousef-PAM2020,
  author = {Pouryousef, Shahrooz and Dar, Daniyal and Ahmad, Suleman and Gill, Phillipa and Nithyanand, Rishab},
  journal = {Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM)},
  title = {Extortion or Expansion? An investigation into the costs and consequences of ICANN's gTLD experiments},
  year = {2020},
}

@article{diamantis2018privileging,
  title = {Privileging Privacy: Confidentiality as a source of fourth amendment protection},
  author = {Diamantis, Mihailis E},
  journal = {University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law},
  volume = {21},
  number = {2},
  year = {2018},
}

@article{DBLP:conf/anrw/SinghNAPTGP18,
  author = {Singh, Rachee and Nithyanand, Rishab and Afroz, Sadia and Pearce, Paul and Tschantz, Michael Carl and Gill, Phillipa and Paxson, Vern},
  title = {Characterizing the Nature and Dynamics of Tor Exit Blocking},
  journal = {Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW)},
  pages = {23},
  year = {2018},
}

@article{DBLP:conf/ndss/RazaghpanahNVSA18,
  author = {Razaghpanah, Abbas and Nithyanand, Rishab and Vallina{-}Rodriguez, Narseo and Sundaresan, Srikanth and Allman, Mark and Kreibich, Christian and Gill, Phillipa},
  title = {Apps, Trackers, Privacy, and Regulators: {A} Global Study of the Mobile
                 Tracking Ecosystem},
  journal = {Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)},
  year = {2018},
}

@article{bryson2017and,
  title = {Of, for, and by the people: the legal lacuna of synthetic persons},
  author = {Bryson, Joanna J and Diamantis, Mihailis E and Grant, Thomas D},
  journal = {Artificial Intelligence and Law},
  volume = {25},
  pages = {273--291},
  year = {2017},
  publisher = {Springer},
}

@article{DBLP:conf/conext/ChoNRG17,
  author = {Cho, Shinyoung and Nithyanand, Rishab and Razaghpanah, Abbas and Gill, Phillipa},
  title = {A Churn for the Better: Localizing Censorship using Network-level
                 Path Churn and Network Tomography},
  journal = {International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and
               Technologies (CoNEXT)},
  pages = {81--87},
  year = {2017},
}

@article{DBLP:conf/uss/NithyanandSG17,
  author = {Nithyanand, Rishab and Schaffner, Brian and Gill, Phillipa},
  title = {Measuring Offensive Speech in Online Political Discourse},
  journal = {{USENIX} Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet
               (FOCI)},
  year = {2017},
}

@article{DBLP:conf/uss/SinghNAPTGP17,
  author = {Singh, Rachee and Nithyanand, Rishab and Afroz, Sadia and Pearce, Paul and Tschantz, Michael Carl and Gill, Phillipa and Paxson, Vern},
  title = {Characterizing the Nature and Dynamics of Tor Exit Blocking},
  journal = {{USENIX} Security Symposium},
  pages = {325--341},
  year = {2017},
}

@article{DBLP:conf/eurosp/HahnNGJ16,
  author = {Hahn, Bridger and Nithyanand, Rishab and Gill, Phillipa and Johnson, Rob},
  title = {Games without Frontiers: Investigating Video Games as a Covert Channel},
  journal = {{IEEE} European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS{\&}P)},
  pages = {63--77},
  year = {2016},
  crossref = {DBLP:conf/eurosp/2016},
}

@article{DBLP:conf/ndss/NithyanandSGZS16,
  author = {Nithyanand, Rishab and Starov, Oleksii and Gill, Phillipa and Zair, Adva and Schapira, Michael},
  title = {Measuring and Mitigating AS-level Adversaries Against Tor},
  journal = {23rd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium
               (NDSS)},
  year = {2016},
  crossref = {DBLP:conf/ndss/2016},
}

@article{DBLP:conf/uss/NithyanandKJVFP16,
  author = {Nithyanand, Rishab and Khattak, Sheharbano and Javed, Mobin and Vallina{-}Rodriguez, Narseo and Falahrastegar, Marjan and Powles, Julia E. and Cristofaro, Emiliano De and Haddadi, Hamed and Murdoch, Steven J.},
  title = {Adblocking and Counter Blocking: {A} Slice of the Arms Race},
  journal = {6th {USENIX} Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the
               Internet (FOCI)},
  year = {2016},
  crossref = {DBLP:conf/uss/2016foci},
}

@article{DBLP:conf/ccs/CaiNWJG14,
  author = {Cai, Xiang and Nithyanand, Rishab and Wang, Tao and Johnson, Rob and Goldberg, Ian},
  title = {A Systematic Approach to Developing and Evaluating Website Fingerprinting
                 Defenses},
  journal = {ACM {SIGSAC} Conference on Computer and Communications Security
               (CCS)},
  pages = {227--238},
  year = {2014},
  crossref = {DBLP:conf/ccs/2014},
}

@article{DBLP:conf/uss/WangCNJG14,
  author = {Wang, Tao and Cai, Xiang and Nithyanand, Rishab and Johnson, Rob and Goldberg, Ian},
  title = {Effective Attacks and Provable Defenses for Website Fingerprinting},
  journal = {{USENIX} Security Symposium},
  pages = {143--157},
  year = {2014},
  crossref = {DBLP:conf/uss/2014},
}

@article{DBLP:conf/wpes/CaiNJ14,
  author = {Cai, Xiang and Nithyanand, Rishab and Johnson, Rob},
  title = {CS-BuFLO: {A} Congestion Sensitive Website Fingerprinting Defense},
  journal = {Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES)},
  pages = {121--130},
  year = {2014},
  crossref = {DBLP:conf/wpes/2014},
}

@article{DBLP:conf/wpes/NithyanandCJ14,
  author = {Nithyanand, Rishab and Cai, Xiang and Johnson, Rob},
  title = {Glove: {A} Bespoke Website Fingerprinting Defense},
  journal = {Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES)},
  pages = {131--134},
  year = {2014},
  crossref = {DBLP:conf/wpes/2014},
}

@article{DBLP:conf/wpes/NithyanandJ13,
  author = {Nithyanand, Rishab and Johnson, Rob},
  title = {The password allocation problem: strategies for reusing passwords
                 effectively},
  journal = {Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES)},
  pages = {255--260},
  year = {2013},
  crossref = {DBLP:conf/wpes/2013},
}

@article{DBLP:conf/sp/NithyanandS12,
  author = {Nithyanand, Rishab and Solis, John},
  title = {A Theoretical Analysis: Physical Unclonable Functions and the Software
                 Protection Problem},
  journal = {{IEEE} Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops},
  pages = {1--11},
  year = {2012},
  crossref = {DBLP:conf/sp/2012w},
}

@article{DBLP:conf/esorics/KobsaNTU11,
  author = {Kobsa, Alfred and Nithyanand, Rishab and Tsudik, Gene and Uzun, Ersin},
  title = {Usability of Display-Equipped {RFID} Tags for Security Purposes},
  journal = {European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS)},
  pages = {434--451},
  year = {2011},
}

@article{DBLP:conf/esorics/NithyanandTU10,
  author = {Nithyanand, Rishab and Tsudik, Gene and Uzun, Ersin},
  title = {Readers Behaving Badly - Reader Revocation in PKI-Based {RFID} Systems},
  journal = {European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS)},
  pages = {19--36},
  year = {2010},
}

@article{DBLP:conf/huc/NithyanandSTU10,
  author = {Nithyanand, Rishab and Saxena, Nitesh and Tsudik, Gene and Uzun, Ersin},
  title = {Groupthink: usability of secure group association for wireless devices},
  journal = {International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp)},
  pages = {331--340},
  year = {2010},
}