Faculty Directory
V.S. Subrahmanian

Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science

Faculty Fellow at the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Contact

2233 Tech Drive
Mudd Room 3013
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

Email V.S. Subrahmanian

Departments

Computer Science

Education

PhD in Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

MS in Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

MSc (Tech.) in Computer Science, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India


Research Interests

V.S. Subrahmanian focuses on the intersection of AI and security problems. He develops machine learning based models to analyze text/geospatial/relational/social network data, learn behavioral models from the data, forecast actions, and influence outcomes. His models have been used to forecast terror attacks and terror network evolution, to reduce poaching, to identify bad actors on social media, to forecast systemic banking crises, to maximize airline profits, to predict if apps are malware or not, and more. His work has also been used to shape international security policies.


Selected Publications

  1. Q. Han, S. Mandujano, S. Porst, V.S. Subrahmanian, S. Tetali, and Y. Xiong. The Android Malware Handbook Detection and Analysis by Human and Machine, NoStarch Press, Nov 2023. https://nostarch.com/androidmalwaredetection
  2.  Y. Zhang, S. Chakrabarty, R. Liu, A. Pugliese, V.S. Subrahmanian. SockDef: A Dynamically Adaptive Defense to a Novel Attack on Review Fraud Detection Engines, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, Sep. 2023.
  3.  Y. Zhang, D. Chen, S. Jajodia, A. Pugliese, V.S. Subrahmanian, and Y. Xiong. GAIT: A Game-Theoretic Defense Against Intellectual Property Theft, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Dependable & Secure Computing, July 2023.
  4. L. Pajola, D. Chen, M. Conti, and V.S. Subrahmanian. A Novel Review Helpfulness Measure based on the User-Review-Item Paradigm, accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on the Web, January 2023.
  5. D. Byman, C. Gao, C. Meserole and V.S. Subrahmanian. Deepfakes and International Conflict. Foreign Policy at Brookings brief. January 2023.
  6.  G. Apruzzese and V.S. Subrahmanian. Mitigating Adversarial Gray-Box Attacks Against Phishing Detectors, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Dependable & Security Computing, accepted Sep 2022.
  7. Y. Zhang, B. An, and V.S. Subrahmanian. Computing Optimal Nash Equilibria in Multiplayer Games, Proc. NeurIPS 2023, New Orleans, December 2023.
  8.  R.J. Fokkink, J.F. Brethouwer, K.T. Greene, R. Lindelauf, V.S. Subrahmanian, C. Tornquist. Rising tension in the Himalayas: a Geospatial Analysis of Chinese Border Incursions into India, accepted for publication in PloS One,  17(11), November 2022.