Payas Gupta

Payas Gupta


Ph.D. Student

Email: payas.gupta.2008 (at) phdis.smu.edu.sg

Level 4, Graduate Office
School of Information Systems
Singapore Management University
80 Stamford Road
Singapore 178902


About Me

Payas is a (n>4) Ph.D candidate in School of Information System at Singapore Managment University. His research focuses on Information Security and Trust in general. Currently, his primary research interests revolve around human aspects of security, biometric security and security issues related to mobile devices. He is also involved in many research projects related to human subjects and novel user authentication. Since arriving at Singapore Management University, he has started doing research in cryptographic key generation using skin conductance to fight against coercion attacks. He is also exploring secure and usable mobile phone authentication techniques.

He is being advised by Asst. Prof. Debin Gao. Recently, he was a visiting scholar in Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University. He was working with Prof. Adrian Perrig, CyLab, CMU.

Payas graduated from The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India in 2008. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Communication and Computer Engineering. Previously, he has worked on Intrusion Detection Systems and Malware analysis.

Click here to download my CV and here for the research statement.


Research Interest

Human aspects of security
Mobile Security
Biometric System Security
Security issues in Social Networks


PhD Dissertation Committee Members:

Debin GAO, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, SMU (Committee Chairman)
Robert DENG, Professor of Information Systems, SMU
DING Xuhua, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, SMU
Liang Zhenkai, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, NUS

Services and Involvement

Groups

Security Reading Group
School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University

Aug '08 - present


External Reviewer

Oakland 2013: The 34th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Oakland 2012: The 33rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
AsiaCCS 2012: 7th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security
RAID 2011: The 14th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection
ISPEC 2011: The 7th Information Security Practice and Experience Conference
Oakland 2011: The 32nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
ICIS 2009:The 30th International Conference on Information Systems


Awards and Scholarship

Singapore Management University full Graduate Scholarship

2008 - 2013

SPSM workshop in conjunction with ACM CCS Travel Award

Oct '12

Winner of the Keith Block entrepreneurial contest

Mar '12

PhD Overseas Training Residency at CMU, LARC Scholarship

Aug'11 - May '12

Microsoft Research Summer School on Security and Privacy Travel Award

Jun '11

Usenix Security Symposium 2010 Travel Award

Aug '10

Summer School On Provable Security Travel Award

Sep '09


Summer Schools

Microsoft Research Summer School on Security and Privacy
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Jun '11

Summer School on Provable Security
Barcelona, Spain

Sep '09

Teaching Experience

School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University

Teaching Assistant: IS302 - Information Security & Trust

Jan'11 - Apr'11

Teaching Assistant: IS302 - Information Security & Trust

Jan'10 - Apr'10


The LNM Institute of Information Technology

Laboratory Assistant: Basic Electrical and Electronic Science Lab

Aug'05 - Nov'05

Publications

Your love is public now: Questioning the use of personal information in authentication
Payas Gupta, Swapna Gottipati, Jing Jiang and Debin Gao
In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) 2013, Hangzhou, China, May 2013

[Asia CCS 2013]
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I can be You: Questioning the use of Keystroke Dynamics as Biometrics
Chee Meng Tey, Payas Gupta and Debin Gao
In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2013, San Diego, CA, USA , Feb 2013

[NDSS 2013]
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OTO: Online Trust Oracle for User-Centric Trust Establishment
Tiffany Hyun-Jin, Payas Gupta, Jun Han, Emmanuel Owusu, Jason Hong, Adrian Perrig and Debin Gao
In Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2012, Raleigh, NC, USA , Oct 2012 (AT&T Best Applied Security Paper Award Finalist)

[CCS 2012]
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Coercion Resistance in Authentication Responsibility Shifting
Payas Gupta, Xuhua Ding and Debin Gao
In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) 2012, Seoul, Korea, May 2012

[Asia CCS 2012]
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HuMan: Creating Memorable Fingerprints of Mobile Users
Payas Gupta, Tan Kiat Wee, Narayan Ramasubbu, David Lo, Debin Gao and Rajesh Krishna Balan
In IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) 2012, Lugano, Switzerland, Mar 2012

[Percom 2012]
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Fighting Coercion Attacks in Key Generation using Skin Conductance
Payas Gupta and Debin Gao
In Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security) 2010, Washington, DC, USA, Aug 2010

[Usenix 2010]
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SS-IDS: Statistical Signature based IDS
Payas Gupta, Chedy Raissi, Gerard Dray, Pascal Poncelet and Johan Brissaud
In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW) 2009, Venice, Italy, May 2009

[ICIW 2009]
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D´etection d’Intrusion: de l’ utilisation de signatures statistiques
Payas Gupta, Chedy Raissi, Gerard Dray, Pascal Poncelet and Johan Brissaud
Actes du 5ieme Atelier Fouille de Donn´ees Complexes (FDC) 2008, Sophia Antipolis, France, Jan 2008

[FDC 2008]
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Network Monitoring Tool to Identify Malware Infected Computers
Navpreet Singh, Megha Jain, Payas Gupta and Shikha Bansal
AUUG 2006, Melbourne, Australia, Oct 2006

[AUUG 2006]
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Posters

Fighting Coercion Attacks in Key Generation using Skin Conductance
Payas Gupta and Debin Gao
20th Governmentware Seminar and Exhibition, Singapore, September 2011

[Govt'ware 2011]
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Research Experience

Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, US

Visiting Scholar: Online Trust Oracle for User-Centric Trust Establishment
Supervisor: Prof. Adrian Perrig, CyLab, CMU

Aug'11 - May'12


DIEE, University of Cagliari, Italy

Research Intern: HTTPGuard: A multi-model Web Intrusion Detection System
Supervisor: Prof. Giorgio Giacinto, DIEE, Unica, Italy

May'08 - Jul'08


LGI2P, Ecole des Mines d’Ales, France

Research Intern: Intrusion Detection Using Statistical Signature
Supervisor: Prof. Pascal Poncelet, co-head of the LGI2P, France

May'07 - Jul'07


Indian Institute of Technology (IITK), India

Research Intern: NETlog - Network Logger
Supervisor: Mr. Navpreet Singh, Network Manager, IIT Kanpur

Dec '06

Research Intern: MIDS - Malware Intrusion Detection System
Supervisor: Dr. Amitabha Roy & Mr. Navpreet Singh, IIT Kanpur

May'06 - Jul'06