Publications
Kejsi Take, Jordyn Young, Rasika Bhalerao, Kevin Gallagher, Andrea Forte, Damon McCoy, and Rachel Greenstadt, “What to Expect When You’re Accessing: An Exploration of User Privacy Rights in People Search Websites,” Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PoPETS 2024).
Rasika Bhalerao, “My Learnings from Allowing Large Language Models in Introductory Computer Science Classes,” ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2024).
Rosanna Bellini, Kevin Lee, Megan A. Brown, Jeremy Shaffer, Rasika Bhalerao, and Thomas Ristenpart, “The Digital-Safety Risks of Financial Technologies for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence,” 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (Usenix 2023). (Preprint)
Tomasz Korbak, Kejian Shi, Angelica Chen, Rasika Bhalerao, Christopher Buckley, Jason Phang, Samuel Bowman, and Ethan Perez, “Pretraining Language Models with Human Preferences,” The Fortieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023). (Preprint)
Rasika Bhalerao, Nora McDonald, Hanna Barakat, Vaughn Hamilton, Damon McCoy*, and Elissa M. Redmiles*, “Ethics and Efficacy of Unsolicited Anti-Trafficking SMS Outreach,” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2022). Recognition for contribution to Diversity and Inclusion (Presentation recording) (Preprint)
Rasika Bhalerao and Damon McCoy, “An Analysis of Terms of Service and Official Policies with Respect to Sex Work,” IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society 2022 (ISTAS 2022). (Slides)
Rasika Bhalerao, Damon McCoy, “Libel Inc: An Analysis of the Libel Site Ecosystem,” IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations (WACCO 2022). (Slides) (Preprint) (Open reviews)
Rasika Bhalerao*, Vaughn Hamilton*, Allison McDonald*, Elissa M. Redmiles*, Angelika Strohmayer*, “Ethical Practices for Security Research with At-Risk Populations,” IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy International Workshop on Ethics in Computer Security (EthiCS 2022). Best paper award (Slides) (IEEE page)
PhD Dissertation, “Analyzing Harms of Online Platform and Policy Design,” New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Advised by Damon McCoy, PhD. 2022. (Dissertation) (Defense Slides)
Rasika Bhalerao, Mohammad Al-Rubaie, Anand Bhaskar, Igor Markov, “Data-Driven Mitigation of Adversarial Text Perturbation,” The AAAI-22 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (AICS 2022)
Nikita Nangia*, Clara Vania*, Rasika Bhalerao* , Samuel R. Bowman, “CrowS-Pairs: A Challenge Dataset for Measuring Social Biases in Masked Language Models,” Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020). NYU Press: Researchers Spot Origins of Stereotyping in AI Language Technologies
Maxwell Aliapoulios, Cameron Ballard, Rasika Bhalerao, Tobias Lauinger, Damon McCoy, “Swiped: Analyzing Ground-truth Data of a Marketplace for Stolen Debit and Credit Cards,” Proceedings of the 2021 USENIX Security Symposium (Usenix 2021). NYU Press: Tandon team shines light on roiling market for stolen debit and credit cards. Krebs on Security: Here’s Why Credit Card Fraud is Still a Thing
Rasika Bhalerao, Maxwell Aliapoulios, Ilia Shumailov, Sadia Afroz and Damon McCoy, “Mapping the Underground: Supervised Discovery of Cybercrime Supply Chains,” 2019 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime 2019). Honorable mention for best paper award (Preprint)
Victoria Chayes, Kevin Miller, Rasika Bhalerao, Jiajie Luo, Wei Zhu, Andrea L. Bertozzi, Wenzhi Liao, Stanley Osher, “Pre-processing and classification of hyperspectral imagery via selective inpainting,” 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017), New Orleans, LA, 2017, pp. 6195-6199, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7953347.
* indicates equal contribution.