| 2026 | AsiaCCS | Taming Data Challenges in ML-based Security Tasks Using Generative AI. | Shravya Kanchi, Neal Mangaokar, Aravind Cheruvu, Sifat Muhammad Abdullah, Shirin Nilizadeh, Atul Prakash, Bimal Viswanath |
| 2026 | AsiaCCS | Unequal Privacy: Auditing Demographic Bias Vulnerabilities in Visual Protection Systems. | Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh Moosavi Khorzooghi, Poojitha Thota, Mohit Singhal, Abolfazl Asudeh, Gautam Das, Shirin Nilizadeh |
| 2026 | AsiaCCS | The Insider's Advantage: Exploiting Automated Privacy Policy Analyzer Tools Through Subtle Text Manipulations. | Tanusree Das Tithy, Poojitha Thota, Shirin Nilizadeh, Faysal Hossain Shezan |
| 2026 | NDSS | PhishLang: A Real-Time, Fully Client-Side Phishing Detection Framework Using MobileBERT. | Sayak Saha Roy, Shirin Nilizadeh |
| 2025 | ICWSM | Auditing Yelp's Business Ranking and Review Recommendation Through the Lens of Fairness. | Mohit Singhal, Javier Pacheco, Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh Moosavi Khorzooghi, Tanusree Debi, Abolfazl Asudeh, Gautam Das, Shirin Nilizadeh |
| 2025 | WWW | Causal Insights into Parler's Content Moderation Shift: Effects on Toxicity and Factuality. | Nihal Kumarswamy, Mohit Singhal, Shirin Nilizadeh |
| 2024 | EMNLP | Attacks against Abstractive Text Summarization Models through Lead Bias and Influence Functions. | Poojitha Thota, Shirin Nilizadeh |
| 2024 | ICWSM | Analyzing the Stance of Facebook Posts on Abortion Considering State-Level Health and Social Compositions. | Ana Aleksandric, Henry Isaac Anderson, Anisha Dangal, Gabriela Mustata Wilson, Shirin Nilizadeh |
| 2024 | ICWSM | Users' Behavioral and Emotional Response to Toxicity in Twitter Conversations. | Ana Aleksandric, Sayak Saha Roy, Hanani Pankaj, Gabriela Mustata Wilson, Shirin Nilizadeh |
| 2024 | ICWSM | Unveiling the Risks of NFT Promotion Scams. | Sayak Saha Roy, Dipanjan Das, Priyanka Bose, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna, Shirin Nilizadeh |
| 2024 | SP | From Chatbots to Phishbots?: Phishing Scam Generation in Commercial Large Language Models. | Sayak Saha Roy, Poojitha Thota, Krishna Vamsi Naragam, Shirin Nilizadeh |
| 2023 | IMC | Phishing in the Free Waters: A Study of Phishing Attacks Created using Free Website Building Services. | Sayak Saha Roy, Unique Karanjit, Shirin Nilizadeh |
| 2023 | ICWSM | Cybersecurity Misinformation Detection on Social Media: Case Studies on Phishing Reports and Zoom's Threat. | Mohit Singhal, Nihal Kumarswamy, Shreyasi Kinhekar, Shirin Nilizadeh |
| 2023 | SecureComm | Street Rep: A Privacy-Preserving Reputation Aggregation System. | Christophe Hauser, Shirin Nilizadeh, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Ni Trieu, Srivatsan Ravi, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna |
| 2019 | ICSE | DifFuzz: differential fuzzing for side-channel analysis. | Shirin Nilizadeh, Yannic Noller, Corina S. Pasareanu |
| 2019 | WWW | Think Outside the Dataset: Finding Fraudulent Reviews using Cross-Dataset Analysis. | Shirin Nilizadeh, Hojjat Aghakhani, Eric Gustafson, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna |
| 2019 | WWW | Lightning Talk - Think Outside the Dataset: Finding Fraudulent Reviews using Cross-Dataset Analysis. | Shirin Nilizadeh, Hojjat Aghakhani, Eric Gustafson, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna |
| 2018 | ICWSM | Peer to Peer Hate: Hate Speech Instigators and Their Targets. | Mai ElSherief, Shirin Nilizadeh, Dana Nguyen, Giovanni Vigna, Elizabeth M. Belding |
| 2018 | SP | Detecting Deceptive Reviews Using Generative Adversarial Networks. | Hojjat Aghakhani, Aravind Machiry, Shirin Nilizadeh, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna |
| 2017 | CCS | POISED: Spotting Twitter Spam Off the Beaten Paths. | Shirin Nilizadeh, Francois Labreche, Alireza Sedighian, Ali Zand, Jos M. Fernandez, Christopher Kruegel, Gianluca Stringhini, Giovanni Vigna |
| 2016 | ICWSM | Twitter's Glass Ceiling: The Effect of Perceived Gender on Online Visibility. | Shirin Nilizadeh, Anne Groggel, Peter Lista, Srijita Das, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Apu Kapadia, Fabio Rojas |
| 2014 | CCS | Community-Enhanced De-anonymization of Online Social Networks. | Shirin Nilizadeh, Apu Kapadia, Yong-Yeol Ahn |
| 2013 | SP | Craigslist Scams and Community Composition: Investigating Online Fraud Victimization. | Vaibhav Garg, Shirin Nilizadeh |
| 2012 | CoNEXT | Cachet: a decentralized architecture for privacy preserving social networking with caching. | Shirin Nilizadeh, Sonia Jahid, Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov, Apu Kapadia |
| 2012 | PERCOM | DECENT: A decentralized architecture for enforcing privacy in online social networks. | Sonia Jahid, Shirin Nilizadeh, Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov, Apu Kapadia |