Paper “Characterising Usage Patterns and Privacy Risks of a Home Security Camera Service” by Dr. Gareth Tyson and collaborators has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. This is the premier journal for mobile computing with an impact factor of 5.112. You can also listen to Dr. Gareth Tyson talking about it in BBC4 Inside Science!

Our colleague Gareth Tyson received the Faculty Research Award. You can read more about it here or check his research at his site.

Paper “Tracking Counterfeit Cryptocurrency End-to-End” by Dr. Gareth Tyson and colleagues at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication, Zhejiang University and HKPU has been accepted at ACM SIGMETRICS’21! This is the top conference for systems performance evaluation with an acceptance rate of 16%.

Zubiaga, A. (2020). Exploiting Class Labels to Boost Performance on Embedding-based Text Classification. Proceedings of CIKM.

Zubiaga, A., & Jiang, A. (2020). Early detection of social media hoaxes at scale. ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), 14(4), 1-23.

Although EOSIO is the first widely adopted high throughput Delegated Proof of Stake system with millions of accounts and billions of transactions, little is known about its ecosystem. This paper performs a large-scale measurement study of the EOSIO blockchain and its associated DApps, develops techniques to automatically detect bots and fraudulent activity finding thousands of bot accounts (over 30% of the accounts in the platform) and real-world attacks (301 attack accounts): 80 attack accounts identified have been confirmed by DApp teams, causing 828,824 EOS tokens losses (roughly 2.6 million US$).

Yuheng Huang, Haoyu Wang, Lei Wu, Gareth Tyson, Xiapu Luo, Run Zhang, Xuanzhe Liu, Gang Huang and Xuxian Jiang. Understanding (Mis)Behavior on the EOSIO Blockchain. In ACM SIGMETRICS, Boston, MA (2020). [Acceptance Rate: 15%] [PDF]

This paper presents a characterisation of a multilingual social network in India called ShareChat. The authors collect an exhaustive dataset across 72 weeks before and during the Indian general elections of 2019, across 14 languages, investigating the cross lingual dynamics by clustering visually similar images together, and exploring how they move across language barriers.

Pushkal Agarwal, Kiran Garimella, Sagar Joglekar, Nishanth Sastry and Gareth Tyson. Characterizing User Content on a Multi-lingual Social Network. In 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Atlanta, GA (2020). [Acceptance Rate 17%] [PDF]

Home Security Cameras (HSCs) are now commonplace and constitute a growing part of the wider online video ecosystem. This paper
studies a major HSC provider (15.4M streams, 211K users). The study explores the per-user behaviour, identifying core clusters of users and extracts and identifies privacy risks and potential mitigations.

Jinyang Li, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson and Gaogang Xie. Your Privilege Gives Your Privacy Away: An Analysis of a Home Security Camera Service. In 39th IEEE Joint Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Beijing, China (2020). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF]

Latif, S., Usman, M., Manzoor, S., Iqbal, W., Qadir, J., Tyson, G., Castro, I., Razi, A., Boulos, M.N.K., Weller, A. and Crowcroft, J., 2020. Leveraging Data Science To Combat COVID-19: A Comprehensive Review, 2020 [PDF]