Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru is a Professor of Computer Science at IIIT-H. He is an Associate Researcher at Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science & AI - IIT Madras, and an Adjunct faculty at IIIT Delhi. PK was inducted an ACM Distinguished Member in 2021. PK is an ACM India Council Member, and Chair of the Research Facilitation Committee of ACM India. PK is a TEDx and an ACM Distinguished & ACM India Eminent Speaker.

Education

PK completed his B.E at University of Madras in 1998. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). His Ph.D. thesis work on anti-phishing research at CMU contributed in creating an award-winning startup - Wombat Security Technologies.

Research & Publications

His area of interests are Natural Language Processing, Applied Machine Learning.

1. The wmdp benchmark: Measuring and reducing malicious use with unlearning in 2024.
2. Leveraging intra and inter modality relationship for multimodal fake news detection in 2022.
3. Stress classification using brain signals based on LSTM network in 2022.
4. “Subverting the Jewtocracy”: Online antisemitism detection using multimodal deep learning in 2021.
5. Automating fake news detection system using multi-level voting model in 2020.
6. Mind your language: Abuse and offense detection for code-switched languages in 2019.
7. Collective classification of spam campaigners on Twitter: A hierarchical meta-path based approach in 2018.
8. A social media based index of mental well-being in college campuses in 2017.
9. Analyzing social and stylometric features to identify spear phishing emails in 2014.
10. Who falls for phish? A demographic analysis of phishing susceptibility and effectiveness of interventions in 2010.