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Yuvraj Agarwal is a researcher affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Computer Science, with a focus on subfields including Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science, Computer Networks and Communications, Signal Processing, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, among which are:

  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • User Authentication and Security Systems
  • Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
  • Green IT and Sustainability

Yuvraj Agarwal has contributed to multiple publication venues, with notable frequency at:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • IEEE Security & Privacy
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Their recent papers include:

  • "Follow My Recommendations: A Personalized Privacy Assistant for Mobile App Permissions," 2020, published in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • "What makes people install a COVID-19 contact-tracing app? Understanding the influence of app design and individual difference on contact-tracing app adoption intention," 2021, published in Pervasive and Mobile Computing
  • "Understanding Challenges for Developers to Create Accurate Privacy Nutrition Labels," 2022, presented at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • "ACES," 2020, published in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
  • "Exploring the Needs of Users for Supporting Privacy-Protective Behaviors in Smart Homes," 2022, presented at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Frequent collaborators include Jason Hong, Tianshi Li, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Prasoon Patidar, and Haojian Jin. Their collaboration counts vary, with the most frequent being Jason Hong (12 coauthored works) and Tianshi Li (7 coauthored works).

Best Publications

  • Occupancy-driven energy management for smart building automation

    Yuvraj Agarwal;Bharathan Balaji;Rajesh Gupta;Jacob Lyles

  • CoolSpots: reducing the power consumption of wireless mobile devices with multiple radio interfaces

    Trevor Pering;Yuvraj Agarwal;Rajesh Gupta;Roy Want

  • Your Location has been Shared 5,398 Times!: A Field Study on Mobile App Privacy Nudging

    Hazim Almuhimedi;Florian Schaub;Norman Sadeh;Idris Adjerid

  • Handling a trillion (unfixable) flaws on a billion devices: Rethinking network security for the Internet-of-Things

    Tianlong Yu;Vyas Sekar;Srinivasan Seshan;Yuvraj Agarwal

  • Sentinel: occupancy based HVAC actuation using existing WiFi infrastructure within commercial buildings

    Bharathan Balaji;Jian Xu;Anthony Nwokafor;Rajesh Gupta

  • Somniloquy: augmenting network interfaces to reduce PC energy usage

    Yuvraj Agarwal;Steve Hodges;Ranveer Chandra;James Scott

  • Evaluating the effectiveness of model-based power characterization

    John C. McCullough;Yuvraj Agarwal;Jaideep Chandrashekar;Sathyanarayan Kuppuswamy

  • Wireless wakeups revisited: energy management for voip over wi-fi smartphones

    Yuvraj Agarwal;Ranveer Chandra;Alec Wolman;Paramvir Bahl

  • Brick: Towards a Unified Metadata Schema For Buildings

    Bharathan Balaji;Arka Bhattacharya;Gabriel Fierro;Jingkun Gao

  • Duty-cycling buildings aggressively: The next frontier in HVAC control

    Yuvraj Agarwal;Bharathan Balaji;Seemanta Dutta;Rajesh K. Gupta

  • ProtectMyPrivacy: detecting and mitigating privacy leaks on iOS devices using crowdsourcing

    Yuvraj Agarwal;Malcolm Hall

  • Brick : metadata schema for portable smart building applications

    Bharathan Balaji;Arka Bhattacharya;Gabriel Fierro;Jingkun Gao

  • Exploring How Privacy and Security Factor into IoT Device Purchase Behavior

    Pardis Emami-Naeini;Henry Dixon;Yuvraj Agarwal;Lorrie Faith Cranor

  • Follow My Recommendations: A Personalized Privacy Assistant for Mobile App Permissions.

    Bin Liu;Mads Schaarup Andersen;Florian Schaub;Hazim Almuhimedi

  • From Buildings to Smart Buildings—Sensing and Actuation to Improve Energy Efficiency

    T. Weng;Y. Agarwal

  • Signaling over cellular networks to reduce the Wi-Fi energy consumption of mobile devices

    Paramvir Bahl;Ranveer Chandra;Kevin Chin;Alastair Wolman

  • SleepServer: a software-only approach for reducing the energy consumption of PCs within enterprise environments

    Yuvraj Agarwal;Stefan Savage;Rajesh Gupta

  • Underdesigned and Opportunistic Computing in Presence of Hardware Variability

    P. Gupta;Y. Agarwal;L. Dolecek;N. Dutt

  • Cyber-physical energy systems: focus on smart buildings

    Jan Kleissl;Yuvraj Agarwal

  • Ask the Experts: What Should Be on an IoT Privacy and Security Label?

    Pardis Emami-Naeini;Yuvraj Agarwal;Lorrie Faith Cranor;Hanan Hibshi

Frequent Co-Authors

Rajesh Gupta
Rajesh Gupta University of California, San Diego
Jason Hong
Jason Hong Carnegie Mellon University
Ranveer Chandra
Ranveer Chandra Microsoft (United States)
Lorrie Faith Cranor
Lorrie Faith Cranor Carnegie Mellon University
David E. Culler
David E. Culler University of California, Berkeley
Paramvir Bahl
Paramvir Bahl Microsoft (United States)
Mani Srivastava
Mani Srivastava University of California, Los Angeles
Nikil Dutt
Nikil Dutt University of California, Irvine
Luca Benini
Luca Benini ETH Zurich
Florian Schaub
Florian Schaub University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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