Conference Publications
What Comes After Harm? Mapping Reparative Actions in AI through Justice Frameworks
Sijia Xiao, Haodi Zou, Alice Qian Zhang, Deepak Kumar, Hong Shen, Jason Hong, Motahhare Eslami.
AAAI / ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society, October 2025.
Characterizing the MrDeepFakes Sexual Deepfake Marketplace
Best paper honorable mention!
Catherine Han, Anne Li,
Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric.
USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX), August 2025.
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PressProtect: Helping Journalists Navigate Social Media in the Face of Online Harassment
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.
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Watch Your Language: Investigating Content Moderation with Large Language Models
Deepak Kumar, Yousef AbuHashem, Zakir Durumeric.
AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), June 2024.
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Specious Sites: Tracking the Spread and Sway of Spurious News Stories at Scale
Hans Hanley,
Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric.
IEEE Security & Privacy Symposium. May 2024.
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Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?
Neil Perry, Megha Srivastava,
Deepak Kumar, Dan Boneh.
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Nov 2023.
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A Golden Age: Conspiracy Theories' Relationship with Misinformation Outlets, News Media, and the Wider Internet
Hans Hanley,
Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric.
Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW). Oct 2023.
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Hate Raids on Twitch: Echoes of the Past, New Modalities, and Implications for Platform Governance
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.
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Detecting DNS Manipulation using TLS Certificates
Elisa Tsai,
Deepak Kumar, Ram Sundara Raman, Gavin Li, Yael Eiger, Roya Ensafi. Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS). July 2023.
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Happenstance: Utilizing Semantic Search to Track Russian State Media Narratives about the Russo-Ukrainian War on Reddit
Hans Hanley,
Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric.
AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). June 2023.
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"A Special Operation": A Quantitative Approach to Dissecting and Comparing Different Media Ecosystems' Coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Hans Hanley,
Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric.
AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). June 2023.
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Understanding the Behaviors of Toxic Accounts on Reddit
Deepak Kumar, Jeff Hancock, Kurt Thomas, Zakir Durumeric. ACM Web Conference (WebConf). May 2023.
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Toppling Top Lists: Evaluating the Accuracy of Popular Website Lists
Kimberly Ruth,
Deepak Kumar, Brandon Wang, Luke Valenta, Zakir Durumeric.
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC). November 2022.
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On the Infrastructure Providers that Support Misinformation Websites
Catherine Han,
Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric.
International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). June 2022.
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No Calm in The Storm: Investigating QAnon Website Relationships
Hans Hanley,
Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric.
International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). June 2022.
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Measuring DNS-over-HTTPS Performance Around the World
Rishabh Chhabra, Paul Murley,
Deepak Kumar, Michael Bailey,
Gang Wang. ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC). November 2021.
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Designing Toxic Content Classification
for a Diversity of Perspectives
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.
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SoK: Hate, Harassment, and
the Changing Landscape of Online Abuse
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 (Oakland). May 2021.
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Measuring Identity Confusion
with Uniform Resource Locators. Joshua
Reynolds,
Deepak Kumar, Zane Ma, Rohan
Subramanian, Meishan Wu, Martin Shelton, Joshua Mason,
Emily Stark, Michael Bailey. CHI 2020.
VIRTUAL, April 2020.
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All Things Considered: An
Analysis of IoT Devices on Home Networks.
Deepak Kumar, Kelly Shen, Benton Case, Deepali
Garg, Galina Alperovich, Dmitry Kuznetsov, Rajarshi
Gupta, Zakir Durumeric. 28th USENIX Security Symposium
(USENIX Security), Santa Clara, California, August
14–16, 2019.
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Skill Squatting Attacks on
Amazon Alexa. Deepak Kumar, Riccardo
Paccagnella, Paul Murley, Eric Hennenfent, Joshua
Mason, Adam Bates, Michael Bailey. 27th USENIX
Security Symposium (USENIX Security), Baltimore,
Maryland, August 15-17, 2018.
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Erays: Reverse Engineering
Ethereum's Opaque Smart Contracts. Yi
Zhou,
Deepak Kumar, Surya Bakshi, Joshua Mason,
Andrew Miller, Michael Bailey. 27th USENIX Security
Symposium (USENIX Security '18), Baltimore, Maryland,
August 15-17, 2018.
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SoK: “Plug & Pray” Today –
Understanding USB Insecurity in Versions 1 through
C.
[pdf] Dave (Jing) Tian, Nolen Scaife,
Deepak Kumar, Michael Bailey, Adam Bates, Kevin
R. Butler. 39th IEEE Symposium on Security and
Privacy (Oakland), San Francisco, CA. May 21-23, 2018.
Tracking Certificate Misissuance
in the Wild.
Deepak Kumar, Zhengping Wang, Matthew Hyder, Joseph Dickinson, Joshua Mason, Michael Bailey,
Gabrielle Beck, David Adrian, Zakir Durumeric, J. Alex Halderman. 39th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland),
San Francisco, CA. May 21-23, 2018.
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Understanding the Mirai Botnet.
Manos Antonakakis, Tim April, Michael Bailey, Matt Bernhard, Elie Bursztein, Jaime Cochran,
Zakir Durumeric, J. Alex Halderman, Luca Invernizzi,
Michalis Kallitsis,
Deepak Kumar, Chaz Lever, Zane Ma, Joshua Mason, Damian Menscher, Chad Seaman,
Nick Sullivan, Kurt Thomas, Yi Zhou.
26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), Vancouver, Canada,
August 16-18, 2017.
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Security Challenges in an Increasingly
Tangled Web.
Deepak Kumar, Zane Ma, Zakir Durumeric, Ariana Mirian, Joshua Mason,
Michael Bailey, and J. Alex Halderman. 26th World Wide Web Conference (WWW'17).
Perth, Australia. April 3 - 7, 2017.
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