Shlok Gilda

Peer-Reviewed Publications/Patents

1. Navigating the Blue Nowhere: A Framework for Mapping Validated Adversarial Trajectories
   Shlok Gilda, Karsten Martiny, Justin Ho, Laura Tinnel, Grit Denker, Bonnie J. Dorr.
   Accepted at The 9th Workshop on Graph Techniques for Adversarial Activity Analytics (GTA³ 2025)
   📄 Paper
2. Are Fact-Checking Tools Helpful? An Exploration of the Usability of Google Fact Check
   Yang Qiangeng, Tess Christensen, Shlok Gilda, et al.
   Presented at 5th EAI International Conference on Data and Information in Online Systems (2024).
   📄 Paper
3. People Still Care About Facts: Twitter Users Engage More with Factual Discourse than Misinformation--A Comparison Between COVID and General Narratives on Twitter
   Luiz Giovanini¹, Shlok Gilda¹ (co-first authors), Mirela Silva², Fabrício Ceschin², et al.
   Presented at SocialSec 2023.
   Winner of the Best Paper Award!
   📄 Paper
4. None Shall Pass: A blockchain-based federated identity management system
   Shlok Gilda, Tanvi Jain, Aashish Dhalla.
   Presented at 4th International Conference on Inventive Computation and Information Technologies (ICICIT 2022).
   📄 Paper
5. Predicting Different Types of Subtle Toxicity in Unhealthy Online Conversations
   Shlok Gilda, Luiz Giovanini, Mirela Silva, Daniela Oliveira.
   Presented at EUSPN's 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Natural Language Processing (IANLP 2021).
   📄 Paper
6. Identity Attribute Confidence Scoring while Certifying Authorization Claims (US Patent)
   Parag Gokhale, Sakshi Malik, Shlok Gilda, Shams Hasan Rizvi, Rohan Poulose.
   United States Patent and Trademark Office (2020).
   📄 Paper
7. Blockchain for Student Data Privacy and Consent
   Shlok Gilda, Maanav Mehrotra.
   Presented at 2018 International Conference on Computer Communication and Informatics (ICCCI 2018).
   📄 Paper
8. Source Code Classification Using Neural Networks
   Shlok Gilda.
   Presented at 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (JCSSE 2017).
   📄 Paper
9. Smart Music Player Integrating Facial Emotion Recognition and Music Mood Recommendation
   Shlok Gilda, Husain Zafar, Chintan Soni, Kshitija Waghurdekar.
   Presented at 2017 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Signal Processing and Networking (WiSPNET 2017).
   📄 Paper

Under Review

1. Principled Design for Epistemic Accountability in AI-Assisted Engineering
   Sankalp Gilda¹, Shlok Gilda¹ (co-first authors).
   Submitted to ICLR 2026 Workshop on Trustworthy AI
   📄 Paper
2. Epistemic Accountability for Agentic Financial AI: The Transformer Mandate and Evidence Lifecycle Management
   Sankalp Gilda¹, Shlok Gilda¹ (co-first authors).
   Submitted to ICLR 2026 Workshop on Advances in Financial AI
3. From Algebraic Specification to Property-Based Verification: Trust Aggregation Invariants for AI-Assisted Engineering
   Sankalp Gilda¹, Shlok Gilda¹ (co-first authors).
   Submitted to ICLR 2026 Workshop VerifAI-2
4. Position: AI Architectural Decisions Require Epistemic Rigor and Temporal Accountability
   Sankalp Gilda¹, Shlok Gilda¹ (co-first authors).
   Submitted to ICLR 2026 Workshop on Advances in Financial AI
5. Structured Abductive-Deductive-Inductive Reasoning for LLMs via Algebraic Invariants
   Sankalp Gilda¹, Shlok Gilda¹ (co-first authors).
   Submitted to ICLR 2026 Workshop on LLM Reasoning
6. The Admission Control Gap: Longitudinal Evidence of Growing Technical Security Debt in Open Source Dependencies
   Shlok Gilda, Marcus Botacin, Bonnie J. Dorr.
   Submitted to The 42nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) 2026
7. An Elicitation-Matrix Approach to Pragmatic Context Modeling in Low-Resource Machine Translation: The Case of Akuapem Twi
   K. Yamoah, G. Agyapong, N. Parekh, D. Brinkley, C. Jayaweera, S. Gilda, B. J. Dorr, E. Dorley, K. Scroggins.
   Submitted to The 39th International Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS) Conference 2026

In-Progress Projects

1. Temporal Evolution of Security Concerns in OSS: Investigating the Role of Contributor Characteristics and Behaviors
   Shlok Gilda, Marcus Botacin, Bonnie Dorr.
2. Developing a Communication-Based Health Score for OSS Projects: Insights and Recommendations
   Shlok Gilda, Bonnie Dorr.