Publications

Ushna Malik, Laiba Intizar Ahmad, Amna Hassan, Izzah Shafique, Eilya Mohsin, Ayesha Ali, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi. Prompting, Oversight, and Adoption: Physicians’ Use of Large Language Models for Diagnostic Reasoning in an LMIC. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · pp. 1-19, 2026.

Chen Sun, Nikolas Guggenberger, Supreeth Shastri. Faults and Pitfalls in Implementing the Right to be Forgotten. Communications of the ACM · 69(6) · pp. 50-59, 2026.

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, Osama Khalid, Sharaf Zia, Ethan Kutlu. Flattening Fantasies: Analyzing Stereotypes in Pornographic Discourse. International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · 20(1) · pp. 421-434, 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.

Hammas Bin Tanveer, Echo Chan, Ricky K. P. Mok, Sebastian Kappes, Philipp Richter, Oliver Gasser, John Ronan, Arthur Berger, kc Claffy. Unveiling IPv6 Scanning Dynamics: A Longitudinal Study Using Large Scale Proactive and Passive IPv6 Telescopes. Proceedings of the ACM on Networking · 3(CoNEXT3) · pp. 21:1-21:24, 2025.

Ritik Roongta, Julia Jose, Hussam Habib, Rachel Greenstadt. Sheep’s clothing, wolfish impact: Automated detection and evaluation of problematic ‘allowed’ advertisements. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies · 2025(4) · pp. 507-529, 2025.

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.

Chen Sun, Evan Jacobs, Daniel Lehmann, Andrew Crouse, Supreeth Shastri. GDPRxiv: Establishing the State of the Art in GDPR Enforcement. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies · 2023(4) · pp. 484-499, 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.

Shehroze Farooqi, Maaz Musa, Zubair Shafiq, Fareed Zaffar. CanaryTrap: Detecting Data Misuse by Third-Party Apps on Online Social Networks. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies · 2020(4) · pp. 336-354, 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.