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Ponnurangam Kumaraguru is affiliated with the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi in India. They have contributed extensively to the fields of Computer Science and Social Sciences, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their primary research topics include misinformation and its impacts, topic modeling, spam and phishing detection, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, sentiment analysis and opinion mining, social media and politics, and complex network analysis techniques.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Kumaraguru include:

  • SpotFake+: A Multimodal Framework for Fake News Detection via Transfer Learning (2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • Ladies First: Analyzing Gender Roles and Behaviors in Pinterest (2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media)
  • TweetBoost: Influence of Social Media on NFT Valuation (2022, Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2022)
  • Leveraging Intra and Inter Modality Relationship for Multimodal Fake News Detection (2022, Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2022)
  • A machine learning application for raising WASH awareness in the times of COVID-19 pandemic (2022, Scientific Reports)

Kumaraguru frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Rajiv Ratn Shah, Shivangi Singhal, Tavpritesh Sethi, Hitkul, and Asmit Kumar Singh. Their collaborative efforts reflect sustained research activity within their areas of expertise.

Their work has been published across notable venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Best Publications

  • Who falls for phish?: a demographic analysis of phishing susceptibility and effectiveness of interventions

    Steve Sheng;Mandy Holbrook;Ponnurangam Kumaraguru;Lorrie Faith Cranor

  • Faking Sandy: characterizing and identifying fake images on Twitter during Hurricane Sandy

    Aditi Gupta;Hemank Lamba;Ponnurangam Kumaraguru;Anupam Joshi

  • Anti-Phishing Phil: the design and evaluation of a game that teaches people not to fall for phish

    Steve Sheng;Bryant Magnien;Ponnurangam Kumaraguru;Alessandro Acquisti

  • Teaching Johnny not to fall for phish

    Ponnurangam Kumaraguru;Steve Sheng;Alessandro Acquisti;Lorrie Faith Cranor

  • Privacy Indexes: A Survey of Westin's Studies

    Ponnurangam Kumaraguru;Lorrie Faith. Cranor

  • SpotFake: A Multi-modal Framework for Fake News Detection

    Shivangi Singhal;Rajiv Ratn Shah;Tanmoy Chakraborty;Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

  • Protecting people from phishing: the design and evaluation of an embedded training email system

    Ponnurangam Kumaraguru;Yong Rhee;Alessandro Acquisti;Lorrie Faith Cranor

  • Credibility ranking of tweets during high impact events

    Aditi Gupta;Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

  • TweetCred: Real-Time Credibility Assessment of Content on Twitter

    Aditi Gupta;Ponnurangam Kumaraguru;Carlos Castillo;Patrick Meier

  • School of phish: a real-world evaluation of anti-phishing training

    Ponnurangam Kumaraguru;Justin Cranshaw;Alessandro Acquisti;Lorrie Cranor

  • Studying User Footprints in Different Online Social Networks

    A. Malhotra;L. Totti;W. Meira;P. Kumaraguru

  • Home is safer than the cloud!: privacy concerns for consumer cloud storage

    Iulia Ion;Niharika Sachdeva;Ponnurangam Kumaraguru;Srdjan Čapkun

  • Getting users to pay attention to anti-phishing education: evaluation of retention and transfer

    Ponnurangam Kumaraguru;Yong Rhee;Steve Sheng;Sharique Hasan

  • PhishAri: Automatic realtime phishing detection on twitter

    Anupama Aggarwal;Ashwin Rajadesingan;Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

  • Phi.sh/$oCiaL: the phishing landscape through short URLs

    Sidharth Chhabra;Anupama Aggarwal;Fabricio Benevenuto;Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

  • SpotFake+: A Multimodal Framework for Fake News Detection via Transfer Learning (Student Abstract)

    Shivangi Singhal;Anubha Kabra;Mohit Sharma;Rajiv Ratn Shah

  • @i seek 'fb.me': identifying users across multiple online social networks

    Paridhi Jain;Ponnurangam Kumaraguru;Anupam Joshi

  • $1.00 per RT #BostonMarathon #PrayForBoston: Analyzing fake content on Twitter

    Aditi Gupta;Hemank Lamba;Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

  • Automating fake news detection system using multi-level voting model

    Sawinder Kaur;Parteek Kumar;Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

  • Lessons from a real world evaluation of anti-phishing training

    P. Kumaraguru;S. Sheng;A. Acquisti;L.F. Cranor

  • We know where you live: privacy characterization of foursquare behavior

    Tatiana Pontes;Marisa Vasconcelos;Jussara Almeida;Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

  • School of Phish: A Real-Word Evaluation of Anti-Phishing Training (CMU-CyLab-09-002)

    Ponnurangam Kumaraguru;Justin Cranshaw;Alessandro Acquisti;Lorrie Faith Cranor

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorrie Faith Cranor
Lorrie Faith Cranor Carnegie Mellon University
Manish Gupta
Manish Gupta Microsoft (United States)
Virgilio Almeida
Virgilio Almeida Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Alessandro Acquisti
Alessandro Acquisti Carnegie Mellon University
Jason Hong
Jason Hong Carnegie Mellon University
Anupam Joshi
Anupam Joshi University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Kristina Lerman
Kristina Lerman University of Southern California
Roger Zimmermann
Roger Zimmermann National University of Singapore
Mustaque Ahamad
Mustaque Ahamad Georgia Institute of Technology
Nitesh Saxena
Nitesh Saxena Texas A&M University

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