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Apu Kapadia is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the intersecting fields of social sciences and computer science. Their published work spans various subfields including sociology and political science, information systems, communication, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction.

The main topics of Kapadia's research include privacy, security, and data protection; social media and politics; misinformation and its impacts; user authentication and security systems; digital marketing and social media; as well as sexuality, behavior, and technology. These areas highlight a focus on the societal and technological dimensions of digital interactions and data privacy.

Kapadia has contributed to academic discourse through multiple publication venues, with the most frequent being the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, where eight papers have appeared. Other common venues include arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Security & Privacy, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, and ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Kapadia include:

  • "Tangible Privacy", 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Twitter's Glass Ceiling: The Effect of Perceived Gender on Online Visibility", 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Sharenting and Children's Privacy in the United States: Parenting Style, Practices, and Perspectives on Sharing Young Children's Photos on Social Media", 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Addressing the harms of AI-generated inauthentic content", 2023, Nature Machine Intelligence
  • "Privacy Norms and Preferences for Photos Posted Online", 2020, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Kapadia frequently collaborates with several coauthors, among whom Adam J. Lee and Donald S. Williamson appear four times each, while Imtiaz Ahmad, Rosta Farzan, and Yong-Yeol Ahn have collaborated three times respectively.

Best Publications

  • Soundcomber: A Stealthy and Context-Aware Sound Trojan for Smartphones.

    Roman Schlegel;Kehuan Zhang;Xiao-yong Zhou;Mehool Intwala

  • Anonysense: privacy-aware people-centric sensing

    Cory Cornelius;Apu Kapadia;David Kotz;Dan Peebles

  • Routing through the mist: privacy preserving communication in ubiquitous computing environments

    J. Al-Muhtadi;R. Campbell;A. Kapadia;M.D. Mickunas

  • AnonySense: A system for anonymous opportunistic sensing

    Minho Shin;Cory Cornelius;Dan Peebles;Apu Kapadia

  • Privacy behaviors of lifeloggers using wearable cameras

    Roberto Hoyle;Robert Templeman;Steven Armes;Denise Anthony

  • Loose tweets: an analysis of privacy leaks on twitter

    Huina Mao;Xin Shuai;Apu Kapadia

  • Blacklistable anonymous credentials: blocking misbehaving users without ttps

    Patrick P. Tsang;Man Ho Au;Apu Kapadia;Sean W. Smith

  • Attribute-Based Publishing with Hidden Credentials and Hidden Policies.

    Apu Kapadia;Patrick P. Tsang;Sean W. Smith

  • PlaceAvoider: Steering First-Person Cameras away from Sensitive Spaces.

    Robert Templeman;Mohammed Korayem;David J. Crandall;Apu Kapadia

  • Opportunistic sensing: Security challenges for the new paradigm

    Apu Kapadia;David Kotz;Nikos Triandopoulos

  • DECENT: A decentralized architecture for enforcing privacy in online social networks

    S. Jahid;S. Nilizadeh;P. Mittal;N. Borisov

  • Cachet: a decentralized architecture for privacy preserving social networking with caching

    Shirin Nilizadeh;Sonia Jahid;Prateek Mittal;Nikita Borisov

  • Social Circles: Tackling Privacy in Social Networks

    Fabeah Adu-Oppong;Casey K. Gardiner;Apu Kapadia;Patrick P. Tsang

  • AnonySense: Opportunistic and Privacy-Preserving Context Collection

    Apu Kapadia;Nikos Triandopoulos;Cory Cornelius;Daniel Peebles

  • Privacy Concerns and Behaviors of People with Visual Impairments

    Tousif Ahmed;Roberto Hoyle;Kay Connelly;David Crandall

  • Virtual walls: protecting digital privacy in pervasive environments

    Apu Kapadia;Tristan Henderson;Jeffrey J. Fielding;David Kotz

  • Community-Enhanced De-anonymization of Online Social Networks

    Shirin Nilizadeh;Apu Kapadia;Yong-Yeol Ahn

  • Nymble: anonymous IP-address blocking

    Peter C. Johnson;Apu Kapadia;Patrick P. Tsang;Sean W. Smith

  • Nymble: Blocking Misbehaving Users in Anonymizing Networks

    Patrick P Tsang;Apu Kapadia;Cory Cornelius;Sean W Smith

  • PlaceRaider: Virtual Theft in Physical Spaces with Smartphones

    Robert Templeman;Zahid Rahman;David J. Crandall;Apu Kapadia

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Crandall
David J. Crandall Indiana University
Sean W. Smith
Sean W. Smith Dartmouth College
Roy H. Campbell
Roy H. Campbell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David Kotz
David Kotz Dartmouth College
Wu-chun Feng
Wu-chun Feng Virginia Tech
Man Ho Au
Man Ho Au Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Michael K. Reiter
Michael K. Reiter Duke University
Jalal Al-Muhtadi
Jalal Al-Muhtadi King Saud University
Kay Connelly
Kay Connelly Indiana University
Bennett I. Bertenthal
Bennett I. Bertenthal Indiana University

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