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I study the security and digital safety threats that emerge when people interact with sociotechnical systems at scale. These days, I've been calling this subfield sociotechnical cybersecurity. I blend large-scale, data-driven measurements with human-centered studies to understand how such threats, which range from misinformation to online abuse, are operationalized in practice and how people experience them. Ultimately, my work contributes insights, data, defenses, and systems that seek to make the Internet a safer place for all people.
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I am always interested in working with motivated students on research. You can find a page that details my interests and what you can expect from me as an advisor here.
- Arshia Arya, PhD Student
- Haodi Zou, PhD Student
- Seoyoung Kweon, PhD Student (with Stefan Savage, Geoff Voelker)
- Paul Chung, PhD Student (with Stefan Savage, Geoff Voelker)
Best paper honorable mention!
Catherine Han, Anne Li, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric. USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX), August 2025. [pdf]
Best paper honorable mention!
Catherine Han, Anne Li, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric. ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), November 2024. [pdf]
Deepak Kumar, Yousef AbuHashem, Zakir Durumeric. AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), June 2024. [pdf]
Hans Hanley, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric. IEEE Security & Privacy Symposium. May 2024. [pdf]
Best paper award!
Catherine Han, Joseph Seering, Deepak Kumar, Jeff Hancock, Zakir Durumeric. Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW). Oct 2023. [pdf]
Deepak Kumar, Jeff Hancock, Kurt Thomas, Zakir Durumeric. ACM Web Conference (WebConf). May 2023. [pdf]
Deepak Kumar, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sunny Consolvo, Joshua Mason, Elie Bursztein, Zakir Durumeric, Kurt Thomas, Michael Bailey. USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). August 2021. [pdf]
Kurt Thomas, Devdatta Akhawe, Michael Bailey, Elie Bursztein, Dan Boneh, Sunny Consolvo, Nicki Dell, Zakir Durumeric, Patrick Gage Kelley, Deepak Kumar, Damon McCoy, Sarah Meiklejohn, Thomas Ristenpart, Gianluca Stringhini. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. May 2021. [pdf]