Shirin Nilizadeh

67 papers A* 7A 10Journal 36Unranked 14

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	J	`jnl`	"Explain, Don't Just Warn!" - A Real-Time Framework for Generating Phishing Warnings with Contextual Cues. CoRR Sayak Saha Roy, César Torres, Shirin Nilizadeh
2025	A	`conf`	Auditing Yelp's Business Ranking and Review Recommendation Through the Lens of Fairness. ICWSM Mohit Singhal, Javier Pacheco, Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh Moosavi Khorzooghi, Tanusree Debi, Abolfazl Asudeh, Gautam Das, Shirin Nilizadeh
2025	A*	`conf`	Causal Insights into Parler's Content Moderation Shift: Effects on Toxicity and Factuality. WWW Nihal Kumarswamy, Mohit Singhal, Shirin Nilizadeh
2025	A*	`conf`	DarkGram: A Large-Scale Analysis of Cybercriminal Activity Channels on Telegram. USENIX Security Symposium Sayak Saha Roy, Elham Pourabbas Vafa, Kobra Khanmohamaddi, Shirin Nilizadeh
2025	J	`jnl`	FairDeFace: Evaluating the Fairness and Adversarial Robustness of Face Obfuscation Methods. CoRR Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh Moosavi Khorzooghi, Poojitha Thota, Mohit Singhal, Abolfazl Asudeh, Gautam Das, Shirin Nilizadeh
2025	J	`jnl`	Taming Data Challenges in ML-based Security Tasks: Lessons from Integrating Generative AI. CoRR Shravya Kanchi, Neal Mangaokar, Aravind Cheruvu, Sifat Muhammad Abdullah, Shirin Nilizadeh, Atul Prakash, Bimal Viswanath
2024	A	`conf`	Analyzing the Stance of Facebook Posts on Abortion Considering State-Level Health and Social Compositions. ICWSM Ana Aleksandric, Henry Isaac Anderson, Anisha Dangal, Gabriela Mustata Wilson, Shirin Nilizadeh
2024	—	`conf`	Attacks against Abstractive Text Summarization Models through Lead Bias and Influence Functions. EMNLP (Findings) Poojitha Thota, Shirin Nilizadeh
2024	J	`jnl`	Attacks against Abstractive Text Summarization Models through Lead Bias and Influence Functions. CoRR Poojitha Thota, Shirin Nilizadeh
2024	J	`jnl`	DarkGram: Exploring and Mitigating Cybercriminal content shared in Telegram channels. CoRR Sayak Saha Roy, Elham Pourabbas Vafa, Kobra Khanmohammadi, Shirin Nilizadeh
2024	—	`conf`	Demonstration of an Adversarial Attack Against a Multimodal Vision Language Model for Pathology Imaging. ISBI Poojitha Thota, Jai Prakash Veerla, Partha Sai Guttikonda, Mohammad Sadegh Nasr, Shirin Nilizadeh, Jacob M. Luber
2024	A*	`conf`	From Chatbots to Phishbots?: Phishing Scam Generation in Commercial Large Language Models. SP Sayak Saha Roy, Poojitha Thota, Krishna Vamsi Naragam, Shirin Nilizadeh
2024	A	`conf`	Unveiling the Risks of NFT Promotion Scams. ICWSM Sayak Saha Roy, Dipanjan Das, Priyanka Bose, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna, Shirin Nilizadeh
2024	A	`conf`	Users' Behavioral and Emotional Response to Toxicity in Twitter Conversations. ICWSM Ana Aleksandric, Sayak Saha Roy, Hanani Pankaj, Gabriela Mustata Wilson, Shirin Nilizadeh
2024	J	`jnl`	Utilizing Large Language Models to Optimize the Detection and Explainability of Phishing Websites. CoRR Sayak Saha Roy, Shirin Nilizadeh
2024	J	`jnl`	Vulnerabilities Unveiled: Adversarially Attacking a Multimodal Vision Language Model for Pathology Imaging. CoRR Jai Prakash Veerla, Poojitha Thota, Partha Sai Guttikonda, Shirin Nilizadeh, Jacob M. Luber
2023	J	`jnl`	Analyzing the Stance of Facebook Posts on Abortion Considering State-level Health and Social Compositions. CoRR Ana Aleksandric, Henry Isaac Anderson, Anisha Dangal, Gabriela Mustata Wilson, Shirin Nilizadeh
2023	J	`jnl`	Auditing Yelp's Business Ranking and Review Recommendation Through the Lens of Fairness. CoRR Mohit Singhal, Javier Pacheco, Tanushree Debi, Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh Moosavi Khorzooghi, Abolfazl Asudeh, Gautam Das, Shirin Nilizadeh
2023	A	`conf`	Cybersecurity Misinformation Detection on Social Media: Case Studies on Phishing Reports and Zoom's Threat. ICWSM Mohit Singhal, Nihal Kumarswamy, Shreyasi Kinhekar, Shirin Nilizadeh
2023	J	`jnl`	Demystifying NFT Promotion and Phishing Scams. CoRR Sayak Saha Roy, Dipanjan Das, Priyanka Bose, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna, Shirin Nilizadeh
2023	J	`jnl`	Examining StyleGAN as a Utility-Preserving Face De-identification Method. Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol. Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh Moosavi Khorzooghi, Shirin Nilizadeh
2023	J	`jnl`	Exploring Gender-Based Toxic Speech on Twitter in Context of the #MeToo movement: A Mixed Methods Approach. CoRR Sayak Saha Roy, Ohad Gilbar, Christina Palantza, Maxine Davis, Shirin Nilizadeh
2023	—	`conf`	Facebook Post Credibility as a Predictor of Vaccine Hesitancy in the US. MedInfo Ana Aleksandric, Anisha Dangal, Shirin Nilizadeh, Gabriela Mustata Wilson
2023	J	`jnl`	From Chatbots to PhishBots? - Preventing Phishing scams created using ChatGPT, Google Bard and Claude. CoRR Sayak Saha Roy, Poojitha Thota, Krishna Vamsi Naragam, Shirin Nilizadeh
2023	J	`jnl`	Generating Phishing Attacks using ChatGPT. CoRR Sayak Saha Roy, Krishna Vamsi Naragam, Shirin Nilizadeh
2023	J	`jnl`	Impact of Stricter Content Moderation on Parler's Users' Discourse. CoRR Nihal Kumarswamy, Mohit Singhal, Shirin Nilizadeh
2023	A	`conf`	Phishing in the Free Waters: A Study of Phishing Attacks Created using Free Website Building Services. IMC Sayak Saha Roy, Unique Karanjit, Shirin Nilizadeh
2023	J	`jnl`	Sadness, Anger, or Anxiety: Twitter Users' Emotional Responses to Toxicity in Public Conversations. CoRR Ana Aleksandric, Hanani Pankaj, Gabriela Mustata Wilson, Shirin Nilizadeh
2023	A	`conf`	SoK: Content Moderation in Social Media, from Guidelines to Enforcement, and Research to Practice. EuroS&P Mohit Singhal, Chen Ling, Pujan Paudel, Poojitha Thota, Nihal Kumarswamy, Gianluca Stringhini, Shirin Nilizadeh
2023	—	`conf`	Street Rep: A Privacy-Preserving Reputation Aggregation System. SecureComm (2) Christophe Hauser, Shirin Nilizadeh, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Ni Trieu, Srivatsan Ravi, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna
2023	J	`jnl`	Street Rep: A Privacy-Preserving Reputation Aggregation System. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. Christophe Hauser, Shirin Nilizadeh, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Ni Trieu, Srivatsan Ravi, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna
2022	J	`jnl`	A Large-Scale Analysis of Phishing Websites Hosted on Free Web Hosting Domains. CoRR Sayak Saha Roy, Unique Karanjit, Shirin Nilizadeh
2022	J	`jnl`	Adaptive Matrix Pattern Steganography on RGB Images. J. Cyber Secur. Mobil. Amirfarhad Nilizadeh, Shirin Nilizadeh, Wojciech Mazurczyk, Cliff C. Zou, Gary T. Leavens
2022	J	`jnl`	SoK: Content Moderation in Social Media, from Guidelines to Enforcement, and Research to Practice. CoRR Mohit Singhal, Chen Ling, Nihal Kumarswamy, Gianluca Stringhini, Shirin Nilizadeh
2022	J	`jnl`	Spanish Facebook Posts as an Indicator of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Texas. CoRR Ana Aleksandric, Henry Isaac Anderson, Sarah Melcher, Shirin Nilizadeh, Gabriela Mustata Wilson
2022	J	`jnl`	StyleGAN as a Utility-Preserving Face De-identification Method. CoRR Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh Moosavi Khorzooghi, Shirin Nilizadeh
2022	J	`jnl`	Twitter Users' Behavioral Response to Toxic Replies. CoRR Ana Aleksandric, Sayak Saha Roy, Shirin Nilizadeh
2022	J	`jnl`	Understanding the Bystander Effect on Toxic Twitter Conversations. CoRR Ana Aleksandric, Mohit Singhal, Anne Groggel, Shirin Nilizadeh
2022	J	`jnl`	User Engagement and the Toxicity of Tweets. CoRR Nazanin Salehabadi, Anne Groggel, Mohit Singhal, Sayak Saha Roy, Shirin Nilizadeh
2022	J	`jnl`	Your Tweets Matter: How Social Media Sentiments Associate with COVID-19 Vaccination Rates in the US. CoRR Ana Aleksandric, Mercy Jesuloluwa Obasanya, Sarah Melcher, Shirin Nilizadeh, Gabriela Mustata Wilson
2021	—	`conf`	Attacking Audio Event Detection Deep Learning Classifiers with White Noise. PETRA Rodrigo Augusto dos Santos, Shirin Nilizadeh, Ashwitha Venkata Kassetty
2021	—	`conf`	Attacks against Ranking Algorithms with Text Embeddings: A Case Study on Recruitment Algorithms. BlackboxNLP@EMNLP Anahita Samadi, Debapriya Banerjee, Shirin Nilizadeh
2021	J	`jnl`	Attacks against Ranking Algorithms with Text Embeddings: a Case Study on Recruitment Algorithms. CoRR Anahita Samadi, Debapriya Banerjee, Shirin Nilizadeh
2021	J	`jnl`	Audio Attacks and Defenses against AED Systems - A Practical Study. CoRR Rodrigo dos Santos, Shirin Nilizadeh
2021	—	`conf`	Evaluating the Effectiveness of Phishing Reports on Twitter. eCrime Sayak Saha Roy, Unique Karanjit, Shirin Nilizadeh
2021	J	`jnl`	Evaluating the effectiveness of Phishing Reports on Twitter. CoRR Sayak Saha Roy, Unique Karanjit, Shirin Nilizadeh
2021	J	`jnl`	The Prevalence of Cybersecurity Misinformation on Social Media: Case Studies on Phishing Reports and Zoom's Threats. CoRR Mohit Singhal, Nihal Kumarswamy, Shreyasi Kinhekar, Shirin Nilizadeh
2020	—	`conf`	DifFuzz: Differential Fuzzing for Side-Channel Analysis. SE Shirin Nilizadeh, Yannic Noller, Corina S. Pasareanu
2020	—	`conf`	Measuring and Characterizing Hate Speech on News Websites. WebSci Savvas Zannettou, Mai ElSherief, Elizabeth M. Belding, Shirin Nilizadeh, Gianluca Stringhini
2020	J	`jnl`	Measuring and Characterizing Hate Speech on News Websites. CoRR Savvas Zannettou, Mai ElSherief, Elizabeth M. Belding, Shirin Nilizadeh, Gianluca Stringhini
2019	A*	`conf`	DifFuzz: differential fuzzing for side-channel analysis. ICSE Shirin Nilizadeh, Yannic Noller, Corina S. Pasareanu
2019	—	`conf`	Lightning Talk - Think Outside the Dataset: Finding Fraudulent Reviews using Cross-Dataset Analysis. WWW (Companion Volume) Shirin Nilizadeh, Hojjat Aghakhani, Eric Gustafson, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna
2019	A*	`conf`	Think Outside the Dataset: Finding Fraudulent Reviews using Cross-Dataset Analysis. WWW Shirin Nilizadeh, Hojjat Aghakhani, Eric Gustafson, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna
2018	—	`conf`	Detecting Deceptive Reviews Using Generative Adversarial Networks. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops Hojjat Aghakhani, Aravind Machiry, Shirin Nilizadeh, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna
2018	J	`jnl`	Detecting Deceptive Reviews using Generative Adversarial Networks. CoRR Hojjat Aghakhani, Aravind Machiry, Shirin Nilizadeh, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna
2018	J	`jnl`	DifFuzz: Differential Fuzzing for Side-Channel Analysis. CoRR Shirin Nilizadeh, Yannic Noller, Corina S. Pasareanu
2018	A	`conf`	Peer to Peer Hate: Hate Speech Instigators and Their Targets. ICWSM Mai ElSherief, Shirin Nilizadeh, Dana Nguyen, Giovanni Vigna, Elizabeth M. Belding
2018	J	`jnl`	Peer to Peer Hate: Hate Speech Instigators and Their Targets. CoRR Mai ElSherief, Shirin Nilizadeh, Dana Nguyen, Giovanni Vigna, Elizabeth M. Belding
2017	A*	`conf`	POISED: Spotting Twitter Spam Off the Beaten Paths. CCS Shirin Nilizadeh, Francois Labreche, Alireza Sedighian, Ali Zand, José M. Fernandez, Christopher Kruegel, Gianluca Stringhini, Giovanni Vigna
2017	J	`jnl`	POISED: Spotting Twitter Spam Off the Beaten Paths. CoRR Shirin Nilizadeh, Francois Labreche, Alireza Sedighian, Ali Zand, José M. Fernandez, Christopher Kruegel, Gianluca Stringhini, Giovanni Vigna
2016	A	`conf`	Twitter's Glass Ceiling: The Effect of Perceived Gender on Online Visibility. ICWSM Shirin Nilizadeh, Anne Groggel, Peter Lista, Srijita Das, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Apu Kapadia, Fabio Rojas
2014	A*	`conf`	Community-Enhanced De-anonymization of Online Social Networks. CCS Shirin Nilizadeh, Apu Kapadia, Yong-Yeol Ahn
2013	—	`conf`	Craigslist Scams and Community Composition: Investigating Online Fraud Victimization. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops Vaibhav Garg, Shirin Nilizadeh
2012	A	`conf`	Cachet: a decentralized architecture for privacy preserving social networking with caching. CoNEXT Shirin Nilizadeh, Sonia Jahid, Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov, Apu Kapadia
2012	—	`conf`	DECENT: A decentralized architecture for enforcing privacy in online social networks. PerCom Workshops Sonia Jahid, Shirin Nilizadeh, Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov, Apu Kapadia
2011	J	`jnl`	A Decentralized Architecture for Enforcing Privacy in Online Social Networks CoRR Sonia Jahid, Shirin Nilizadeh, Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov, Apu Kapadia
2011	—	`conf`	Pythia: a privacy aware, peer-to-peer network for social search. WPES Shirin Nilizadeh, Naveed Alam, Nathaniel Husted, Apu Kapadia