Lab:
Researcher at Albany Lab for Privacy and Security (ALPS)
ALPS, Department of Computer Science,
UAB 4th floor, University at Albany, Albany, NY 12222

Research Interest:
My research focuses on Media-Rich Fake News Detection using not just text-based, but coming up with multi-modal based approach. I have also worked on GeoLocation related topics, such as providing similar services without enabling users to reveal their GeoLocation.

1. V. Patil, S. Parikh and P. K. Atrey. GeoSecure-O: A Method for Secure Distance Calculation for Travel Mode Detection using Outsourced GPS Trajectory Data, The 5th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data, Singapore, September 2019. (To appear)
2. S. Parikh and P. K. Atrey. A Framework to Detect Fake Tweet Images on Social Media, The 5th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data, Singapore, September 2019. (To appear)
3. S. Parikh, V. Patil, and P. Atrey Towards Impact Scoring of Fake News, IEEE Copyright, 2nd IEEE Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR), San Jose, CA, USA, March 2019.
4. S. Parikh, V. Patil, and P. Atrey On the origin, proliferation and tone of fake news, IEEE Copyright, 2nd IEEE Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR), San Jose, CA, USA, March 2019.
5. S. Parikh and P. K. Atrey. Media-Rich Fake News Detection: A Survey, FakeMultiMedia 2018 Workshop at IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE MIPR), Miami, FL, USA, April 2018.
6. V. Patil, P. Singh, S. Parikh, and P. K. Atrey. GeoSClean: Secure Cleaning of GPS Trajectory Data using Anomaly Detection, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE MIPR), Miami, FL, USA, April 2018.
7. V. Patil, S. Parikh, P. Singh, and P. K. Atrey. GeoSecure: Towards Secure Outsourcing of GPS Data Over Cloud, SPC Workshop at IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS), Las Vegas, NV, USA. October 2017.

1. Peer Reviewer, IEEE MIPR 2019 (IEEE MIPR 2019): 3 Papers Reviewed
2. Web and Publicity Chair, IEEE Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR) FakeMultiMedia Workshop, April 2019, San Jose, CA, USA.
3. Peer Reviewer, IEEE ICASSP 2019 (IEEE IMCIC 2019): 23 Papers Reviewed
4. Peer Reviewer, IMCIC by IIIS (IIIS IMCIC 2019): 10+ Papers Reviewed
5. Peer Reviewer, IEEE Potentials (IEEE Potentials)
6. Served as a Judge at MLH Hack AE hosted at UMass Lowell (Document) (Photo) [November 2017]
7. Proposal Reviewer, EDUCAUSE Annual Conferece 2018 (Link): 22 Proposals Reviewed
8. Web and Publicity Chair, IEEE Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR) FakeMultiMedia Workshop, April 2018, Miami, FL, USA.

• Coming up... at Schenectady City School District [January 31, 2019]
• AI based media-rich fake news detection at Harvard University, Boston Global Forum, Michael Dukakis Institute.
  [Global Cybersecurity Day 2018, December 12, 2018] (Press Release)(AI World Society)(Video)(with Governor Dukakis).

• Sigma Xi
• IEEE

• Presentation at Loeb House, Harvard University [December 2018]
• The fake news detector [June 2018]
• Chapter 8 - Mobile Phone Behavior in Education Work Referred in a Book [November 2017]
• Chronicle Article - Mobile App [May 2014]
• University Business Magazine [July 2014]
• UAlbany News Center [Sept. 2015]
• UAlbany News Center [Jan. 2016]

• Systems Developer Analyst, ITS - Enterprise Infrastructure Services, University at Albany, SUNY | Januray 2018 - Present
• Application Developer, OCM - Web Services, University at Albany, SUNY | April 2015 - January 2018