Mainack Mondal

Faculty of Computer Science @IITKgp. Usable security & privacy. Tinkering with systems. Data science. Social media. he/him/his.

[Mainack Mondal @_mainack]

@RoyguptaP ( from @shaastramag) well-covered our memorable passphrase research as part of their lead story on system security R&D in India : https://t.co/WQ0HR2suuN

A big shout out to my awesome research collaborators.
Recap: the code/data/paper is: https://t.co/4lbUF6LCPM

[Mainack Mondal @_mainack]

We ended up analyzing millions of security issues in the wild and uncover the reasons of why (or why not) the issues get resolved.

Check out paper to know more (and download all of our models, code and data): https://t.co/dVuttl8wFf

[Mainack Mondal @_mainack]

In this work we collected tens of millions of issues from Github repositories.

We identified that there are _lot_ of security issues reported by users in repositories which are never tagged as security issues.

[Mainack Mondal @_mainack]

📢: Rajdeep Ghosh (@Rajdeep57931085), PhD student at @IITKgp today presented our paper on understanding how npm developers handle security issues at @USENIXSecurity today.

code, data, models: https://t.co/dVuttl8wFf

Paper: https://t.co/Fe0SHeo0G5

a thread:

[Mainack Mondal @_mainack]

@Mazharul_13 @SOUPSConference @USENIXSecurity Awesome! Finally :)

[Mainack Mondal @_mainack]

Very excited to be in Seattle for attending @SOUPSConference and @USENIXSecurity for the next week.

Both of them have an awesome program and Seattle is beautiful (my first time in emerald city). Looking forward to a very productive week.

Pics: Soup, Seattle, Skyline.

[Mainack Mondal @_mainack]

Starting tomorrow for the next two weeks I am quite excited to be in Germany. I am really looking forward to meet a lot of awesome researchers and brainstorm. Schedule so far:

Bochum -> Kaiserslautern -> Dagstuhl

Please let me know if you are around. Would love to catch up

[Mainack Mondal @_mainack]

Today on the "AI-writes, AI-reviews" news : https://t.co/rsANQRBzXP

Title "Zochi Achieves Main Conference Acceptance at ACL 2025" @aclmeeting Wow!

[Mainack Mondal @_mainack]

My interview with IIT Bombay trust lab just is just out.

They did a beautiful job of systematically capturing tales from my past, current and future journey while understanding human factors in digital security.

Thanks @IITBTrustLab !

https://t.co/quYC1cBqil

[Mainack Mondal @_mainack]

@eredmil1 @TheOfficialACM @acm_ccs Congratulations! Absolutely well deserved :) :)

[Yixin Zou @yixinzouu]

We (human-centered security and privacy group at @maxplanckpress #MPI_SP) are hiring interns to start anytime in 2025! Applications are due on Nov. 1, 2024. If interested, submit an application to the central portal (https://t.co/77mkKMRKBZ) and email me a quick note after. 1/3

[Mainack Mondal @_mainack]

Thanks @GoogleAI for awarding me and @yixinzouu a Google Academic Research Award.

We will work to design tech for defending emerging adults from scams on platforms like TikTok where content sometimes gets a bit undeserved trust.

Thanks for the support @maxplanckpress, @IITKgp

[Google AI @GoogleAI]

Help us congratulate the Google Academic Research Awards (GARA) winners. The program will support 95 projects led by 143 researchers that use tech to shape a better future across the globe. Check out the inaugural GARA winners →https://t.co/F3YFCn4Otb

[Nataliia Bielova @nataliabielova]

📢 I am seeking candidates interested in applying for a Tenured Research Position @Inria to join my team!

The interested candidate must reach out and express their interest before the end of October 2024.

👉 More info here: https://t.co/GDIlj96Xop

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

A surprising & little-known results in classical statistics:

mean (μ) and median (m) are within one std deviation:

|μ−m| ≤ σ

For unimodal densities, bound is even tighter

|μ−m| ≤ 0.7746 σ

This beautiful results first appeared in a 1932 paper by Hotelling & Solomons

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[Cornell Tech @cornell_tech]

#CornellTech congratulates Associate Professor Nicola Dell on being awarded a 2024 MacArthur Foundation #fellowship for her work developing tech interventions to address the needs of overlooked populations. Congrats, Nicki! https://t.co/qvBgY3gKth

@macfound @Cornell #MacFellow

[Aniket Kate @aniketpkate]

Check out the video recording from the Web3 Randomness workshop https://t.co/WBUWVpeNz0

w/ organized with @pratyaycrypto and @SUPRA_Labs

I learned a lot to learn from this workshop. Lots of open problems for researchers!

special thanks to all speakers and attendees
@kostascrypto @josephbonnea @BhushanVishwas @sherricuono @alinush @sourav1547 @guruvamsip @PratikS64535369 @akhilsai2712 @_hermitsage_ @JockinVC @SpeculatorAr @YKondi @JockinVC Sriram Sridhar, (Berkeley), Jacob Gorman (@SUPRA_Labs), Patrick McClurg (@protocollabs), Jia Liu (Enya labs), Ke Wu (https://t.co/CKZaqf6Mga), Luis Brandao (NIST), and @donbeaver

[Mainack Mondal @_mainack]

📢: I will present our paper on VPN app switching at @USENIXSecurity on Friday. @rrohit2901 , an undergrad, made this work possible (he could not travel due to visa issue).

🗓 Friday, 16 August, 1:15-2:15 pm
📍Track 1, Salon AB, @USENIXSecurity
🔗https://t.co/CuZXKLAhfM

[Mainack Mondal @_mainack]

Now that I am sort of out of jet lag and done with first day of SOUPS 2024 ...

(switching to chirpy voice) --- I am excited to be in Philly till end of this week to attend @SOUPSConference and @USENIXSecurity . Let me know if you are around, I would love catch up :) #soups2024

[Mainack Mondal @_mainack]

We had a great first day at @SOUPSConference with talk sessions, SOUPS history from @lorrietweet , retrospective panel and a celebration of 20 years of SOUPS!

Looking forward to the second day! It is amazing to see so many inspiring people and works around. #soups2024

[Mainack Mondal @_mainack]

It seems that the lack of deletion privacy is plaguing Github now: https://t.co/GyhdU9dorf

Actually this is a persistent privacy problem of archival systems (here is our Usenix Security'22 paper defining deletion privacy: https://t.co/fxNzB9SDGr)