Publications

Beyond the Buzzword: How do Professionals Understand and Translate Zero Trust?

Ananta Soneji, Souradip Nath, Moritz Schloegel, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Gail-Joon Ahn, Adam Doupe, and Carlos Rubio-Medrano.

To appear in ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2026.

Like a Hammer, It Can Build, It Can Break: Large Language Model Uses, Perceptions, and Adoption in Cybersecurity Operations on Reddit

Souradip Nath, Chih-Yi Huang, Aditi Ganapathi, Kashyap Thimmaraju, Jaron Mink, and Gail-Joon Ahn.

To appear in Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2026.

Towards Agentic AI for Access Control in Cyber-infrastructures: Exploring the Security and Human Factors

Carlos Rubio-Medrano, Souradip Nath, Ananta Soneji, Jennifer Mondragon, Jaejong Baek, and Gail-Joon Ahn.

31st ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies.

Deception by Design: A Configurable Platform for Flexible Cyber Deception Strategy Testing and Evaluation

Sukwha Kyung, Souradip Nath, Jaejong Baek, and Gail-Joon Ahn.

24th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security.

Responsible Disclosure is a Two-Way Street: Empirically Measuring the Responsible Disclosure Contract in the Firmware Ecosystem

Hui Jun Tay, Souradip Nath, Arvind S Raj, Abhay Bhat, Ishan Bansal, Audrey Dutcher, Moritz Schloegel, Adam Doupe, Tiffany Bao, Yan Shoshitaishvili, and Ruyou Wang.

To appear in 2026 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.

Distinguished Paper Award

Before the Vicious Cycle Starts: Preventing Burnout Across SOC Roles Through Flow-Aligned Design

Kashyap Thimmaraju, Duc Anh Hoang, Souradip Nath, Jaron Mink, and Gail-Joon Ahn.

Workshop on SOC Operations and Construction.

BuildBench: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Compiling Real-World Open-Source Software

Zehua Zhang, Ati Priya Bajaj, Divij Handa, Siyu Liu, Arvind S Raj, Hongkai Chen, Hulin Wang, Yibo Liu, Zion Leonahenahe Basque, Souradip Nath, Vishal Juneja, Nikhil Chapre, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Adam Doupe, Chitta Baral, and Ruoyu Wang.

NeurIPS 4th Deep Learning for Code Workshop.

Towards Collaboration-Aware Resource Sharing in Research Computing Infrastructures

Souradip Nath, Ananta Soneji, Jaejong Baek, Carlos Rubio-Medrano, and Gail-Joon Ahn.

2025 IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing.

Harnessing Software-Defined Network for Cyber Deception Modeling and Analysis

Sukwha Kyung, Souradip Nath, Jaejong Baek, and Gail-Joon Ahn.

2025 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks.

It's almost like Frankenstein: Investigating the Complexities of Scientific Collaboration and Privilege Management within Research Computing Infrastructures

Souradip Nath, Ananta Soneji, Jaejong Baek, Tiffany Bao, Adam Doupe, Carlos Rubio-Medrano, and Gail-Joon Ahn.

2025 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, pp. 2995-3013.

Digital Evidence Chain of Custody: Navigating New Realities of Digital Forensics

Souradip Nath, Keb Summers, Jaejong Baek, and Gail-Joon Ahn.

2024 IEEE 6th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications, pp. 11-20.

Automated Image Splicing Detection using Deep CNN-learned Features and ANN-based Classifier

Souradip Nath and Ruchira Naskar.

Signal, Image and Video Processing 15, no. 7: 1601-1608.

Journal Paper