Dr. Pradeep K. Atrey
[Brief bio] [Full CV]
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Program
Co-Director, Albany Lab for Privacy and Security (ALPS)
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY)
UAB 421, 1215 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA, The Earth, The Universe
Phone: 518-437-4943, Fax: 518-442-5638
Email: first letter of first name plus last name at albany dot edu
Affiliated Faculty,
College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity,
University at Albany
Adjunct Professor,
School of Electrical Eng. and Computer Sc.,
University of Ottawa, Canada
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Education [More details]
- PhD (Computer Science), School of Computing, National University of Singapore (2006). (Ranked among top 10 schools in the field of computer science as per the QS World University Rankings 2018)
Research Interests [More details] [Google Scholar Profile]
My research focuses on security and privacy of i) people and ii) people's data. The former includes design and development of automated multimedia surveillance tools and techniques (e.g. automated video surveillance) balancing the two contradictory goals of keeping people safe and preserving their privacy. The latter deals with encrypted domain processing, cleaning, editing, searching and deduplication of multimedia data; web phishing detection, malicious browser extension detection, and web authentication; fake content (e.g. fake news) identification and forensics for various cyber world applications.
Current Research Students [Former students]
- Shashank Arora (PhD) [Secure document editing over cloud]
- Shivam Parikh (PhD) [Fake news detection]
- Vikram Patil (PhD) [Secure GPS data processing for location based services]
- Omkar Kulkarni (PhD) [Gaze Uniformity in Group Photos: An Asthetic Perspective]
- Shreyas Makde (PhD) [TBD]
Awards & Honours
- Best Paper Award: GeoSecure-R: Secure computation of geographical distance using region-anonymized GPS data. The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM) (2020). Click here for photo.
- Plaque of Appreciation on completing 10 years of service on the editorial board of ETRI Journal. Click here for photo.
- Outstanding Service Award for service at the 2017 IEEE SMC Conference. [photo] (2018)
- Best Paper Award: Browshing: A new way of phishing using a malicious browser extension. IEEE Int. Conf. on Innovations in Power and Advanced Computing Technologies (i-PACT'17), Vellore, India (2017)
- IEEE Comm. Soc. MMTC Best R-Letter Editor Award (2015) [Photo]
- ACM TOMM Associate Editor of the Year (2015) [Award ceremony video]
- Multimedia Rising Star Speaker at ACM SIGMM Inaugural Workshop on Multimedia Frontiers (2015)
- Erica and Arnold Rogers Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship (2014)
- UWinnipeg President's Merit Award for Exceptional Performance (2012-13)
- ICME Outstanding Organizing Committee Member (as Publicity Chair) (2013)
- UWinnipeg President's Merit Award for Exceptional Performance (2011-12)
- UWinnipeg President's Merit Award for Exceptional Performance (2009-10)
- ETRI Journal - Best Editor Award (2012)
- ETRI Journal - Best Reviewer Award (2009)
- ICME Quality Reviewer Recognition (2011)
Media Coverage
- [12/2018] NPR (WAMC) - Academic Minutes: Prof. Atrey appeared on NPR (WAMC) - Academic Minutes and talked about a new way to fight fake news. To listen, click "here".
- [07/2018] UAlbany News: Prof. Atrey and his student Vikram Patil were featured in UAlbany News "A Safer Way to Share Your Location" featuring their recent work on GPS location privacy.
- [06/2018] UAlbany News: Prof. Atrey and his student Shivam Parikh were featured in UAlbany News "Fake News Detector" featuring their recent work on fake news detection research.
- [02/2018] Experian: Prof. Atrey offered his insight in an article "Fighting Back Against Tax ID Fraud" on experian.com, about the importance of keeping different passwords for different accounts.
- [02/2018] UAlbany News: Prof. Atrey was featured in UAlbany News "Protect Yourself: February is Data Privacy Month, a Good Reminder to Check Your Online Security" offering his advice on identity theft protection.
- [08/2017] BYU Radio: Prof. Atrey appeared on the Matt Townsend show of BYU Radio and talked about modern ATM security. Here is the interview.
- [06/2017] The Conversation US: Prof. Atrey weighs in on security issues and concerns of modern ATMs as they turn fifty. Read his article in The Conversation US.
- [04/2017] CSOonline: Tech journalist John Brandon, quotes Prof. Pradeep Atrey in his article titled "How to deal with the bot crisis on Twitter" published on the CSO. (full article can be accessed by entering 'patrey@albany.edu' in the email address box)
- [02/2017] Fox News Fox News runs story quoting Pradeep Atrey on "How AI fights the war against fake news".
- [06/2016] Times Union Prof. Atrey emphasizes the importance of teaching computer science to children at early stage in an article titled Class is key to cracking the code published in Times Union.
Grants
- UAlbany Startup Grant (2014-2021)
- NSERC Discovery Grant (2009-2015)
- KSA Research Grant (2011-2013)
- Canadian DFAIT Grants (2009,10,11,12)
- UWinnipeg Research Grant (2008-10, 2012)
- UWinnipeg Startup Grant (2008-2011)
- UWinnipeg Travel Grant (2008)
Teaching [Past teaching]
Spring 2021
ICSI-526/426 Cryptography
ICSI-499 Capstone Project in Computer Science
Admin Work [Past admin work]
- Director, Computer Science Undergraduate Studies (08/2015-present)
- CS Colloquium Chair (02/2015-08/2018)
Recent Publications [Full list of publications]
- G. Varshney, P. Iyer, M. Misra and P. K. Atrey. Evading DoH via Live Memory Forensics for Phishing Detection and Content Filtering. The 13th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS'21) - Blockchain Workshop, Bengaluru, India, January 2021.
- O. Kulkarni, V. Patil, S. Parikh, S. Arora and P. K. Atrey. Can you all look here? Towards determining gaze uniformity in group images. IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM'2020), Tapei, Taiwan, December 2020.
- V. Patil and P. K. Atrey. GeoSecure-R: Secure computation of geographical distance using region-anonymized GPS data. The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM'2020), New Delhi, India, September 2020. [Best Paper Award]
- J. Alasadi, R. Arunachalam and P. K. Atrey, and V. K. Singh. A fairness-aware fusion framework for multimodal cyberbullying detection. The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM'2020), New Delhi, India, September 2020.
Recent Professional Activities [Past professional activities]
Editorial Boards
- Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia (TMM).
- Associate Editor, ACM Trans. on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM).
- Associate Editor, Elsevier Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal.
- Editor, ETRI Journal.
- Vice Chair (America), IEEE Communications Society, MMTC Comm Reviews.
Conference Organization
- Workshop Co-Chair, The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR'21), March 2021, Tokyo, Japan.
- TPC Member, The 19th International Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking (IWDW'20), November 2020, Melbourne, Australia.
- TPC Member, The 11th EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime (ICDF2C'20), October 2020, Boston, MA, USA.
- TPC Member, The Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR'20), October 2020, Dublin, Ireland.
- Publication Co-Chair, The 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM'20), October 2020, Seattle, WA, USA.
- Grand Challenge Co-Organizer (SpotFake), The 6th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM'20), September 2020, Delhi, India.
- Workshop and Symposium Co-Chair, The Fourth International Conference on Computing and Network Communications (CoCoNet'20), October 2020, Chennai, India.
- TPC Member, The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR'20), August 2020, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
- Area Chair (Multimedia security, privacy and forensics), IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'20), July 2020, London, UK.
- Lead Workshop Organizer, IEEE ICME Workshop on Media-rich Fake News (MedFake'20), July 2020, London, UK.
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