Sai Teja Peddinti

Doctoral Student Department of Computer Science and Engineering Polytechnic Institute of NYU Six Metro Tech Center Brooklyn, NY 11201 e-mail: psaiteja[at]cis[dot]poly[dot]edu Office: 10.029E, 2 Metrotech Center

 About me | Honors and Awards | Publications | Experience | Projects | Academics

About me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, since Fall 2009. My research advisors are Prof. Keith Ross and Prof. Justin Cappos.

I completed my Bachelor of Technology in ICT from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology,DA-IICT, India in 2009.

Research Interests:Network Security, Penetration Testing, Cryptography and Privacy. Also inclined towards Algorithms, Machine Learning and Programming.

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Honors and Awards

• Deborah Rosenthal, MD Award for outstanding performance in PhD qualifying exam
• President's Gold Medal for Academic Excellence while pursuing BTech, DA-IICT class of 2009.

Publications

1. Sai Teja Peddinti, Avis Dsouza and Nitesh Saxena.
   Cover Locations: Availing Location-Based Services Without Revealing the Location.
   In Proceedings of the 10th annual ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society (WPES '11), co-located with ACM CCS, Chicago, October 2011
2. Sai Teja Peddinti and Nitesh Saxena.
   On the Limitations of Query Obfuscation Techniques for Location Privacy.
   In Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing (UbiComp '11), China, September 2011.
3. Sai Teja Peddinti and Nitesh Saxena.
   On the effectiveness of Anonymizing Networks for Web Search Privacy.
   In Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS '11), Hong Kong, March 2011.
4. Sai Teja Peddinti and Nitesh Saxena.
   On the Privacy of Web Search Based on Query Obfuscation: A Case Study of TrackMeNot.
   In Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Privacy enhancing technologies (PETS'10), Berlin, Germany, July 2010.
5. Joyojeet Pal, Udai Pawar, Apurva Joshi, Mohit Jain, Sai Gopal Thota ,Sai Teja Peddinti, Sukumar Anikar.
   From Pilot to Practice: Creating Multiple-Input Multimedia Content for Real-World Deployment.
   Intelligent User Interfaces for Developing Regions (IUI4DR), 2008, Canary Islands, Spain.

Experience

• Research Assistant, NYU-Poly, September 2009 - Current
  Until May 2011, I worked with Prof.Nitesh Saxena on projects related to evaluation of Web Search and Location privacy preserving mechanisms. I published four papers as the primary author, based on the work done. Currently I am working with my advisors on projects related to Network and Cloud security.
• Teaching Assistant, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of ICT (DA-IICT), India, August 2008 - May 2009
  Helped freshmen with Data Structures and Programming Languages courses.
• Intern, Microsoft Research India, Bangalore, June 2007 - July 2007
  Advisors: Joyojeet Pal(UC Berkeley), Udai Pawar Singh (Microsoft Research), Sukumar Anikar(Azim premji Foundation)
  Worked on a combined project of UC Berkeley, Azim Premji Foundation and Microsoft Research India. I was involved in extending the MultiMouse Technology developed by Microsoft to handle Adobe Flash executables. Published a paper on the conducted work.
• Intern, National Innovation Foundation, India, May 2007 - June 2007
  I had developed an online video management website for National Innovation Foundation.

Projects

Active Projects:

• Network and Host Security:
  We are trying to study how we can leverage Cloud services to improve the network and host security.

Past Projects:

• Location Privacy
  Analyzed the effectiveness of query obfuscation approach in providing location privacy, and showed that statistical information alone is insufficient in generating realistic looking fake location queries. Proposed a new client based autonomous technique, CoverLocations, to provide location privacy to end users.
• Web Search Privacy
  Analyzed the effectiveness of two prominent web search privacy solutions, namely TrackMeNot and Tor. Showed that an adversarial search engine can identify a user's search queries, even these privacy solutions are in place to prevent it.
• Autonomic Framework of Security Protocols
  Worked on the flaws in the autonomic framework for protocol generation and suggested methods to improve the architecture, making the generation scheme more robust and self healing.
• Derivation Scheme for Security Protocols
  Worked on derivation scheme for security protocols, with emphasis on Denial of Service based Just Fast Keying(JFK) Protocol. We were able to extend the derivation scheme to build a closer approximation to the JFK protocol.

Academics

• Polytechnic Institute of New York University, New York
  PhD program in Computer Science, Ongoing


• Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, India
  Bachelor of Technology in Information and Communication Technology, 2009
  President's GOLD MEDAL for academic excellence