Technical Biography

Apu Kapadia
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Information Systems Technology Group
244 Wood Street
Lexington, MA 02420-9108
voice: 781-981-1832
email: akapadia@ll.mit.edu

 

Apu Kapadia received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in October 2005. For his dissertation research on trustworthy communication, Apu received a four-year High-Performance Computer Science Fellowship from the Department of Energy. Following his doctorate, Apu joined Dartmouth College as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS), and was later promoted to Research Assistant Professor with the Dept. of Computer Science at Dartmouth College.

Apu joined the Information Systems Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Sep. 2008. He is interested in topics broadly related to systems security and privacy, and is particularly interested in privacy-enhancing technologies such as anonymizing networks, usable models and policy languages for privacy, security in peer-to-peer networks, intrusion detection, and applied cryptography. He is currently involved in the research and development of survivable systems and is exploring privacy issues in biometric systems.

Recent publications

Apu Kapadia, David Kotz, and Nikos Triandopoulos, "Opportunistic Sensing: Security Challenges for the New Paradigm," To Appear In The First International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS '09), Bangalore, India, January 5th--10th, 2009 (Invited Conference Paper).

Katelin Bailey, Apu Kapadia, Linden Vongsathorn, and Sean W. Smith, "TwoKind Authentication: Protecting Private Information in Untrustworthy Environments," In Proceedings of The Seventh ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES '08), pp. 39--43, Alexandria, VA, October 27, 2008.

Patrick P. Tsang, Man Ho Au, Apu Kapadia, and Sean W. Smith, "PEREA: Towards Practical TTP-Free Revocation in Anonymous Authentication," In Proceedings of The 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS '08), pp. 333--344, Alexandria, VA, October 27--31, 2008.
 
Cory Cornelius, Apu Kapadia, David Kotz, Dan Peebles, Minho Shin and Nikos Triandopoulos, "AnonySense: Privacy-Aware People-Centric Sensing," In Proceedings of The 6th ACM/USENIX International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MOBISYS '08), pp. 211--224, Breckenridge, Colorado, June 17--20, 2008.

Apu Kapadia, Nikos Triandopoulos, Cory Cornelius, Daniel Peebles, and David Kotz, "AnonySense: Opportunistic and Privacy-Preserving Context Collection," In Proceedings of The Sixth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (PERVASIVE '08), pp. 280--297, Sydney, Australia, May 19--22, 2008.

Apu Kapadia and Nikos Triandopoulos, "Halo: High-Assurance Locate for Distributed Hash Tables," In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '08), pp. 61--79, San Diego, CA, February 10--13, 2008.

Patrick P. Tsang, Man Ho Au, Apu Kapadia, and Sean W. Smith, "Blacklistable Anonymous Credentials: Blocking Misbehaving Users without TTPs," In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS '07), pp. 72--81, Alexandria, VA, October 29--November 2, 2007.

Peter C. Johnson, Apu Kapadia, Patrick P. Tsang, and Sean W. Smith, "Nymble: Anonymous IP-Address Blocking," In Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET '07), pp. 113--133, Ottawa, Canada, June 20--22, 2007.  Springer-Verlag, LNCS 4776.

Apu Kapadia, Prasad Naldurg, and Roy H. Campbell, "Distributed Enforcement of Unlinkability Policies: Looking Beyond the Chinese Wall," In Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY '07), pp. 141--150, Bologna, Italy, June 13--15, 2007.

Apu Kapadia, Tristan Henderson, Jeffrey J. Fielding, and David Kotz, "Virtual Walls: Protecting Digital Privacy in Pervasive Environments," In Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (PERVASIVE '07), pp. 162--179, Toronto, Canada, May 13--16, 2007. Springer-Verlag, LNCS 4480.
Honorable Mention Award (Runner-up for Best Paper)

Apu Kapadia, "A Case (Study) For Usability in Secure Email Communication,"
IEEE Security and Privacy, 5(2):80--84, March/April 2007 (Invited Magazine Article).

Apu Kapadia, Patrick P. Tsang and Sean W. Smith, "Attribute-Based Publishing with Hidden Credentials and Hidden Policies," In Proceedings of The 14th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '07), pp. 179--192, San Diego, CA, February 28--March 2, 2007.

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