Primal Pappachan

Primal Pappachan

About me

I’m currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at Penn State University, working with Prof. Anna Squicciarini. My research interests are Data Management, Access Control, Privacy Mechanisms, and Internet Of Things.

I completeted my PhD in Computer Science at University of California, Irvine advised by Prof. Sharad Mehrotra. I received a M.S. in Computer Science from University of Maryland, Baltimore County advised by Prof. Anupam Joshi.

I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Portland State University in Fall 2023.

Recent News

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[Jan 2023] 📝 New full research paper on User Customizable and Robust Geo-Indistinguishability for Location Privacy accepted at EDBT 2023.

[Dec 2022] 💵 Awarded a seed grant ($25,000) by the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intellgience (CSRAI) at Penn State.

[Dec 2022] 💻 Preventing Leakages through Data Dependencies on Access Control marked as reproducible after peer review of artifacts by pVLDB Reproducibility Committee and to be highlighted at VLDB 2023.

[Dec 2022] 📝 New Demo Paper: CORGI: An interactive framework for Customizable and Robust Location Obfuscation accepted at ICDE 2023.

Projects

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CORGI

CORGI

User Customizable and Robust Geo-Indistinguishability for Location Privacy

Cloud 9

Cloud 9

Resolving Multi-user Conflicts in Cloud Systems

Holisitic Deletion

Holisitic Deletion

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Database: Holistic deletion when data dependencies are present

Tattle Tale

Tattle Tale

Preventing Inferences through Data Dependencies on Sensitive Data

PE-IoT

PE-IoT

Privacy Enhanced Internet of Things

Sieve

Sieve

Scaling Policy Enforcement for DBMS

Zotbins

Zotbins

A Smart Space Initiative for Zero Waste

TIPPERS

TIPPERS

Testbed for IoT-based Privacy-Preserving PERvasive Spaces

Faceblock

Faceblock

Protecting individuals privacy using wearable technology