Research

Award

2021 Alphonse Chanis Student Paper Award(Best student paper award for HFES)[news]

Publications

Xu, T., Singh, K., Rajivan, P. (Published) “SpearSim: Design and Evaluation of synthetic task environment for studies on spear phishing attacks,” 2021 HFES Annual Meeting. [preprint

Xu, T., Singh, K., Rajivan, P. (Published) “Modeling phishing decision making using instance-based learning and natural language processing,” Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. [preprint]

Xu, T. & Rajivan, P. (Published) “Determining psycholinguistic features of deception in phishing messages,” Information and Computer Security. 

Xu, T., Singh, K., Rajivan, P. (Published) “Personalized persuasion: Quantifying susceptibility to information exploitation in spear-phishing attacks,” Applied Ergonomics.


Talks

Modeling memory processes in phishing decision making using instance based learning and natural language processing

Speaker @ PSHFES Symposium 2023

October 5th, 2023 Seattle, WA, USA


Invited talk: Analyzing adversarial decision-making using models of instance based learning and natural language processing: Phishing case study

Guest speaker @ Department of Computer Science, UTEP

April 27th, 2023 Online


Modeling decision making on text stimuli using cognitive architectures and natural language processing: the case of phishing attacks 

Track: Modeling & Simulation

Conference: IISE2022

May 22nd, 2022 Seattle, WA, USA


Invited talk: Modeling phishing decision making using instance-based learning and natural language processing

Guest speaker @ Department of Computer Science, UTEP

March 31th, 2022 Online


Modeling phishing decision making using instance-based learning and natural language processing

Track: Cyber deception

Conference: HICSS 2022

January 7th, 2022 Online


SpearSim: Design and Evaluation of synthetic task environment for studies on spear phishing attacks

Track: Cybersecurity

Conference: HFES 2021

October 27th, 2021  Online


SpearSim: Design and Evaluation of synthetic task environment for studies on spear phishing attacks

Track: Cybersecurity

Conference: SOUPS 2021

August 8th, 2021  Online


Hook, Line and Sinker: Determining psycholinguistic features of deception in phishing messages

Track: Awareness, Training and Education

Conference: AHFE 2020

July 19th, 2020 13:30-15:30   San Diego, CA, USA

Academic Service

Reviewer for Systems Engineering 

Reviewer for HFES2023

Track: cybersecurity

Reviewer for HICCS 2023

Track: Cybercrime

Reviewer for HICCS 2022

Track: Artificial Intelligence-based Assistants

Track: Cyber Deception and Cyberpsychology for Defense