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Hello, I’m

Shlok Gilda

PhD Student at the University of Florida researching cyber privacy.

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About Me

Hey! I'm Shlok Gilda

I am a 3rd year Ph.D. student at the University of Florida in the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research (FICS) Lab, advised by Dr. Daniela Oliveira. My research interests include user privacy (phishing, disinformation, online abuse), identity and access management, and vulnerability detection and analysis.

I received my Bachelor's in Computer Science (Distinction with Honors) from the University of Pune in 2018, where I was advised by Dr. Geetanjali Kale and the late Mr. Parag Gokhale from IBM India Software Labs.

  • Email: shlokgilda at ufl dot edu

  • Location: Gainesville, Florida, USA

  • Expected PhD Graduation: Spring 2025

Submissions, Publications, Patents & Projects

Peer-Reviewed Publications/Patents

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, Mirela Silva2, Fabrício Ceschin2, Prakash Shrestha, Christopher Brant, Juliana Fernandes, Catia S. Silva, André Grégio, Daniela Oliveira.

Presented at SocialSec 2023: 9th International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data.

Awarded the Best Paper Award

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'22).

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'21).

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).

Blockchain for Student Data Privacy and Consent

Shlok Gilda, Maanav Mehrotra.

Presented at 2018 International Conference on Computer Communication and Informatics (ICCCI'18).

Source Code Classification Using Neural Networks

Shlok Gilda.

Presented at 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (JCSSE'17).

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'17).



Under Review

Impact of Gender Differences on Open-Source Software Ecosystem

Shlok Gilda, Daniela Oliveira.

Submitted at ACM Computing Surveys.

Political Neutrality and Balanced Co-Authorship Gender Leads to Less Gender Bias: An NLP Analysis of Canadian News Media.

Shlok Gilda, Luiz Giovanini, Mirela Silva, Daniela Oliveira.

Submitted at ACM Transactions on Social Computing.

SoK: The Use of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Theories in Human Factors Phishing Research

Tess Christensen, Mirela Silva, Daniel Capecci, Shlok Gilda, Yang Qiangeng, Daniela Oliveira.

Submitted at ACM Computing Surveys.



In-Progress Projects

Temporal Evolution of Security Concerns in OSS: Investigating the Role of Contributor Characteristics and Behaviors

Shlok Gilda, Marcus Botacin, Daniela Oliveira.

Evaluating Google Fact Checking Performance

Yang Qiangeng, Shlok Gilda, Tess Christensen, Daniela Oliveira.


Mentoring & Service

LREC-Coling

2024

Program Committee Member

USENIX Security

2024

Artifact Evaluation Program Committee Member

Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)

2024

Program Committee Member

Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)

2023

Program Committee Member

USENIX SOUPS Posters

2023

Program Committee Member

Computing Conference

2023

Program Committee Member

ACM CSCW

2022

Student Volunteer

Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)

2022

Program Committee Member

USENIX SOUPS Posters

2022

Program Committee Member

IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society

2022

Reviewer

International Conference on Emerging Trends and Innovations in ICT

2022

Program Committee Member

Science Publishing Group

2022

Reviewer

Science Publishing Group

2021

Reviewer

IEEE Access

2019

Reviewer

International Conference on Image, Video Processing and AI (IVPAI)

2019

Program Committee Member

Awards & Honors

ACSAC Student Conferenceship

2022

Austin, USA

IEEE S&P Student Travel Grant

2021

Virtual

USENIX Enigma Student Grant

2021

Virtual

Impetus and Concepts Winner

2018

Pune, India