Gabe Kaptchuk

Come work with us (or forward along to folks who might be interested)!

I clearly need to re-evaluate my research agenda---evidently I'm not maximizing the fun I could be having

We're thrilled to welcome Gabe Kaptchuk (@gkaptchuk) to @CollegeParkMC2 this semester! His work is focused on redefining digital privacy with a human-centered approach that aligns with how people actually interact with technology. Learn more: go.umd.edu/1qpm

.@UofMaryland's CS dept is welcoming eight new tenure-track faculty members! With expertise in cutting-edge areas, they'll boost our academic & research capabilities. Welcome aboard! 🐢📚 Read more: go.umd.edu/Hires24

@dfaranha @BootleJonathan @kennyog We’ve exchanged a handful of emails and our work is getting a little bit of cross citation from the ML people who think about Stego, but virtually nothing with the mainline Stego people. We are trying to improve the way we cite them as a starting point.

@BootleJonathan @kennyog Has @gkaptchuk engaged with the steganography community in some way?

I have a deep fascination about how the chaos-based image encryption literature forks reality. I accepted to review a paper on the subject, and wow, it's wild.

@miranda__christ I can neither confirm nor deny

@gkaptchuk Does this have anything to do w your talk the other day🤔

Please ignore this nice picture of a building. Nothing to see here. Just some research happening. Carry on.

The UMD security group is hiring a postdoc. Want to work in applied cryptography and zk proofs with me or @gkaptchuk? Or usable security, ai security, network security, pq crypto, or programing languages + security. Come to UMD and live in Washington, DC. obj.umiacs.umd.edu/cybersecurity/…

The Maryland Cybersecurity Center—a unique multidisciplinary research and education powerhouse outside of Washington, D.C.—is seeking applicants for its competitive postdoctoral fellowship program. Applications are due March 28. Learn more: cyber.umd.edu/joinus

@eyalr0 To invoke Hellman, at least the process feels fair even if it doesn’t feel just. youtu.be/qomsX8ZvvIY?si…

@gkaptchuk I understand how annoying it is and I had enough similar experiences in the past. But there were a lot of crypto submissions this cycle. I guess the only solution is to follow the advice of the Dalai Lama and be the reviewer you want to see in the world.

Updated state of peer review in crypto: a USENIX reviewer who didn’t know what a hybrid was in the context of a cryptographic proof. Gd help us all (or at least those of us who are pre-tenure)

@wangxiao1254 Should have said — this was a “highly confident” review. I also heard of this happening and experienced it in some of by assigned reviews. I appreciated that folks largely deferred from what I saw. The cascade of papers has me worried about the next few years.

The full talk is now online! youtube.com/watch?v=nJT7ni… Gives tips for communicating differential privacy guarantees to data subjects based on two recent studies w/ @mary_ann_e @radcummings @gkaptchuk @eredmil1

@AmPaschal01 Glad to hear it!

I feel I learnt a lot from @gkaptchuk article on writing (systems/security) papers and the reasons why many papers get rejected. Hopefully, these thoughts will guide my next paper 🙂. cs-people.bu.edu/kaptchuk/blog/…

@bpreneel1 Thanks!

Useful reading for junior researchers on how to improve your paper.

In bullet point form: - make sure your writing choices dont make the paper harder to review - you gotta pick the right evaluation metrics (and justify the choice) - rebuttals are pretty broken in their current state

So I made the mistake of joining too many PCs at once... I decided to channel the resulting angst into a blog post about common mistakes I saw that sank papers. It's aimed at students writing their first papers, but hopefully valuable to all! kaptchuk.com/blog/post/revi…

I'm excited to (belatedly) announce that I will be joining @Cornell_CS as an assistant prof in Fall 2024! I'll be hiring students this cycle -- if you or anyone you know is interested a PhD in cryptography, quantum computing, or probabilistic proof systems, please get in touch :)

@gijsvanlaer Thanks Gijs!

Honestly, if I was still looking for a PhD advisor, I wouldn't hesitate to apply!