Luddy School of
Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

Apu Kapadia

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Associate Director of Secure Computing

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005
• M.S. in Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
• B.S. in Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998

Biography

Apu Kapadia is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in October 2005. For his dissertation research on trustworthy communication, he received a four-year High-Performance Computer Science Fellowship from the Department of Energy. Following his doctorate, he joined Dartmouth College as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS), and then as a Member of Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Apu Kapadia is interested in topics related to computer security and privacy. He is particularly interested in usable security and HCI; pervasive computing in the context of cameras, wearables, and IoT; and accountable anonymity. For his work on accountable anonymity, two of his papers were named as 'Runners-up for PET Award 2009: Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies'. His work on privacy in the context of wearable cameras received an Honorable Mention Award at ACM CHI 2016. His work on usable privacy controls was given the 'Honorable Mention Award (Runner-up for Best Paper)' at the Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2007.

Apu Kapadia has received eight NSF grants, including an NSF CAREER award in 2013, and a Google Research Award in 2014. He was also a recipient of the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award in 2013 and a Distinguished Alumni Educator Award from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2015. For the years 2015 and 2016, he was Program Co-Chair of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the associated journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs).

Research Areas

• Health@Luddy - Crosscutting
• Security and Privacy
• Data Science
• HCI@Luddy - Crosscutting
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Systems and High Performance Computing

Centers

• Center for Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering