Vivek Pathak

Department of Computer Science
Stevens Institute of Technology

I am an Assistant Graduate Professor at Stevens. Before joining Stevens in 2009, I completed my Ph.D. from Rutgers University. The title of my dissertation was Robust Decentralized Authentication for Public Keys and Geographic Location. Links to my research and teaching are given below; Linked-in has details of my industry experience.

Contact

Office : 307 Lieb Building
Castle Point on Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA
Office Hours : Friday 2PM-3PM, or by appointment.
Phone : 201 216 5048

Interests

  1. Robust and infrastructure free authentication for peer-to-peer systems, ad-hoc networks, online social networks, and the Internet.
  2. Robust authentication of general attributes.
  3. Security and Incentives in Online Social Networks

Teaching

  1. Introduction to Operating Systems - CS 520. Spring 11, 12.
  2. Computer Architecture - CS 488. Spring 11, 12.
  3. Concurrent Programming - CS 511. Fall 09, 10, 11.
  4. Online Social Networks - CS 581. Fall 10, 11.
  5. Java Programming - CS 571. Summer 10 (off-campus industry course).
  6. Operating Systems - CS 492. Spring 10.
  7. Algorithms - CS 385. Fall+Spring 09, 10, 11, 12.

Publications

  1. V. Pathak, S. Smaldone and L. Iftode. Social Farm: Making Social Networks Work for Profit. To appear in the Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Social Media Engagement (SoME) , March 28-29, 2011. In conjunction with WWW'11.
  2. V. Pathak Improving Supply Chain Robustness and Preventing Counterfeiting through Authenticated Product Labels. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST 2010), November 2010.
  3. V. Pathak Combating Web Plagiarism and Improving Internet Safety by Authenticating Web Content. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST) , November 2010.
  4. V. Pathak, D. Yao, and L. Iftode Securing Location Aware Services Over VANET Using Geographical Secure Path Routing. Proceedings of the International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety - ICVES, September 2008.
  5. V. Pathak, D. Yao, and L. Iftode. Improving Email Trustworthiness through Social-Group Key Authentication. Fifth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam - CEAS, August 2008.
  6. V. Pathak and L. Iftode. Byzantine Fault Tolerant Public Key Authentication in Peer-to-peer Systems. Computer Networks, Vol 50/4, March 2006.

Talks

  1. Social Farm: Making Social Networks Work for Profit . Talk at the First International Workshop on Social Media Engagement (SoME), March 2011. In conjunction with WWW'11.
  2. Improving Supply Chain Robustness and Preventing Counterfeiting through Authenticated Product Labels . Talk at IEEE HST 2010, November 2010.
  3. Combating Web Plagiarism and Improving Internet Safety by Authenticating Web Content . Talk at ICITST 2010, November 2010.
  4. Robust Decentralized Authentication of Public Keys and Geographic Locations. Ph.D. Defense, December 2008.
  5. Securing Location Aware Services over VANET using Geographical Secure Path Routing. ICVES, September 2008.
  6. Improving Email Trustworthiness through Social-Group Key Authentication. CEAS, August 2008.
  7. Secure Geographical Routing. Helsinki Rutgers Workshop, May 2007.
  8. Peer-to-peer Sender Authentication for Email. Helsinki Rutgers Workshop, May 2007.
  9. Authentication in Peer-to-peer Systems. Qualifying examination, October 2006.

Theses and Research Reports

  1. Robust Decentralized Authentication for Public Keys and Geographic Locations. Ph.D. Thesis, December 2008.
  2. Securing Geographical Routing in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks. DCS Tech. Rep. 638, September 2008.
  3. Byzantine Fault Tolerant Authentication. DCS Tech. Rep. 492, June 2002.
  4. Encryption Servers: A Scalable Distributed Method for Internet Security. M.S. Thesis, April 2001.
  5. Sylvester's conjecture on L1 metric. Unpublished original proof with Vasek Chvatal, March 2001.

I am interested in computer and internet security issues, both from the research and business angles. I also have a B.Tech. (Aerospace Engg.) from IIT Bombay, and an M.B.A. (Finance and Leadership) from the Stern School of Business at NYU.