Rishab Nithyanand, Ph.D.
Rishab Nithyanand is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa where he leads the Sentinels for Privacy-Aware and Responsible Technological Advancement (SPARTA) Lab.
Research Interests
My research interests are in the areas of security, privacy, and Internet measurement. More specifically, I enjoy research geared towards defending anonymity, understanding Internet censorship, measuring aspects of the advertising and tracking ecosystem, and generally understanding the impact of the Internet on the sociopolitical realities of today. In the past, I dabbled in usable security and computer theory.
Research Interests (Keywords)
Internet Measurement, Privacy, Moderation
Selected publications
Forms of Disclosure: The Path to Automated Data Privacy Audits
Mihailis Diamantis, Maaz Bin Musa, Lucas Ausberger, and Rishab Nithyanand
Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (Forthcoming), 2023
Glowing in the Dark: Uncovering IPv6 Address Discovery and Scanning Strategies in the Wild
Hammas Bin Tanveer, Paul Pearce, Rachee Singh, and Rishab Nithyanand
USENIX Security Symposium, 2023
The Morbid Realities of Social Media: An Investigation into the Misinformation Shared by the Deceased Victims of COVID-19
Hussam Habib, and Rishab Nithyanand
International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2023
Paying Attention to the Algorithm Behind the Curtain: Bringing Transparency to YouTube’s Demonetization Algorithms
Arun Dunna, Katherine Keith, Ethan Zuckerman, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Brendan O’Connor, and Rishab Nithyanand
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2022
Pathways to Radical Misogyny: How Participation, Interaction, and Perception in Online Communities Increase Radical Behavior
Hussam Habib, Padmini Srinivasan, and Rishab Nithyanand
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2022
Exploring the Magnitude and Effects of Media Influence on Reddit
Hussam Habib, and Rishab Nithyanand
International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2022
Are Proactive Interventions for Reddit Communities Feasible?
Hussam Habib, Maaz Bin Musa, Fareed Zaffar, and Rishab Nithyanand
International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2022
Relationships Among Vaccination Attitudes, Social Media Use, and Activist vs. Radical Behavior
Ryan Stoldt, Andrew High, Ashley Peterson, Kathryn Biddle, Raven Maragh-Lloyd, Rishab Nithyanand, Brian Ekdale, Timothy Havens, Hussam Habib, and John Thiede
72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference (ICA), 2022
When Are Cache-Oblivious Algorithms Cache Adaptive? A Case Study of Matrix Multiplication and Sorting
Arghya Bhattacharya, Helen Xu, Abiyaz Chowdhury, Rezaul Chowdhury, Rathish Das, Rob Johnson, Rishab Nithyanand, and Michael Bender
European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), 2022
ATOM: A Generalizable Technique for Inferring Tracker-Advertiser Data Sharing in the Online Behavioral Advertising Ecosystem
Maaz Bin Musa, and Rishab Nithyanand
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2022
Apophanies or Epiphanies? How Crawlers Impact Our Understanding of the Web
Suleman Ahmad, Daniyal Dar, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Fareed Zaffar, and Rishab Nithyanand
The Web Conference (WWW), 2020
Inferring Tracker-Advertiser Relationships in the Online Advertising Ecosystem using Header Bidding
John Cook, Rishab Nithyanand, and Zubair Shafiq
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2020
Extortion or Expansion? An investigation into the costs and consequences of ICANN’s gTLD experiments
Shahrooz Pouryousef, Daniyal Dar, Suleman Ahmad, Phillipa Gill, and Rishab Nithyanand
Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), 2020
- Social Computing and Public Policy
- Verifiable, Dependable, and High-Performance Systems
