Dr. Mainack Mondal is an assistant professor of Computer Science at IIT Kharagpur. He completed his Ph.D. from Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany in 2017. Prior to joining IIT Kharagpur he was a postdoctoral researcher in University of Chicago and Cornell Tech. Mainack is broadly interested in incorporating human factors in security and privacy, and consequently designing usable online services. Specifically, he works on developing systems which provide usable privacy and security mechanisms to online users while minimizing system abuse. His work has led to papers in Usenix Security, ACM's CCS, NDSS, AsiaCCS, PETS, AAAI's ICWSM, Usenix's SOUPS, ACM's CSCW, ACM's CoNExt and Usenix's EuroSys among others. His work also received a distinguished paper award in Usenix's SOUPS and a Google India faculty research award 2022.
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Kharagpur, India
Computer Science and Engineering