Payas Gupta Email & Phone Number

Dr. Payas Gupta is a Director of Research, Fraud Solutions at Pindrop, Atlanta, US. His primary research interests revolve around telephony security and human aspects of security. Since telephony and the web are converging, he is exploring security issues in the telephony security domain. He is also involved in many research projects related to human subjects and user authentication for smartphones. He has won best paper awards for his recent work on telephone honeypot (Phoneypot) at NDSS 2015 and on keystroke biometrics at NDSS 2013. His work has been published in top security conferences including CCS, Usenix Security, and NDSS. He is a frequent participant and a speaker to the work of the M3AAWG VTA-SIG (Voice and Telephony Abuse Special Interest Group). He has given plenty of talks in major security conferences and events including RSA. Some of the detection systems resulted from his recent research on Phoneypot have been integrated with commercial products distributed by Pindrop, that specializes in phone fraud detection to protect enterprise call centers, and other various other robocall blocking companies. Payas obtained his Ph.D. from School of Information System at Singapore Management University, Singapore in 2013 and Bachelor of Technology in Communication and Computer Engineering from The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India in 2008. Payas was also a visiting scholar for a year in CyLab and Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, US in 2011. Prior to joining Pindrop, he was a research scientist at New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE.My full and latest profile can be seen at https://sites.google.com/site/payasgupta/

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