Vikas Mishra

PhD Student
Inria Lille
France
Tel: +33-767114089
Email:  vikas.mishra@inria.fr
Blog: mishravikas.com


I'm a PhD Student in the Spirals team at Inria Lille since October 2018. My supervisors are Walter Rudametkin, Romain Rouvoy and Pierre Laperdrix. I also help in developing amiunique.org

My research interests include Security & Privacy with a special intrest in Privacy issues in online tracking.

Besides research, I also enjoy contributing to open source projects and have previously contributed to Mozilla and OSGeo among other organizations.


Publications

  • PETS '21 Déjà vu: Abusing Browser Cache Headers to Identify and Track Online Users, Vikas Mishra, Pierre Laperdrix, Walter Rudametkin and Romain Rouvoy. To appear in Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2021)

  • WWW '20 Don’t count me out: On the relevance of IP addresses in the tracking ecosystem, Vikas Mishra, Pierre Laperdrix, Antoine Vastel, Walter Rudametkin, Romain Rouvoy and Martin Lopatka. Proceedings of the 2020 edition of The Web Conference (WWW 2020), Taipei, Taïwan (acceptance rate: 19%)PDF

  • Actions speak louder than words: Semi-supervised learning for browser fingerprinting detection. Sarah Bird, Vikas Mishra, Steven Englehard, Rob Willoughby, David Zeber, Walter Rudametkin and Martin Lopatka. arxiv

  • ESSoS '17 FPRandom: Randomizing core browser objects to break advanced device fingerprinting techniques, Pierre Laperdrix, Benoit Baudry, Vikas Mishra. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS 2017), Bonn, Germany
    (acceptance rate: 37%) PDF Artefact

  • - Distinguished Artifact Award

Work Experience

 Research Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Kaiserslautern, Germany Aug 2017 - May 2018
    
 Summer Intern, DiverSE team, INRIA-Rennes, Rennes, France May - Jul, 2016
    
 Intern, Google Summer of Code 2016 at PyWPS, OSGeo Apr-Aug 2016
    
 Intern, Google Summer of Code 2014 at GeoNode, OSGeo May-Aug 2014
    

Education

 PhD, Computer Science, University of Lille, France 2018 - Current
    
 MSc (Hons.) Economics, BITS-Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus 2013 - 2018
    
 B.E. (Hons.) Electronics and Electrical Engineering, BITS-Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus 2013 - 2018