My PhD advisor's webpage: https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sws
My undergraduate advisor's webpage: https://crab.rutgers.edu/~rajivg
Publications and Things:
James M. Davis, Rajiv Gandhi, and Vijay H. Kothari. "Combinatorial Algorithms for Minimizing the Weighted Sum of Completion Times on a Single Machine." Operations Research Letters 41, no. 2 (2013): 121-125.
Vijay Kothari, Jim Blythe, Sean Smith, and Ross Koppel. "Agent-Based Modeling of User Circumvention of Security." In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Agents and CyberSecurity, pp. 1-4. 2014.
Sean W. Smith, Ross Koppel, Jim Blythe, and Vijay Kothari. "Mismorphism: a Semiotic Model of Computer Security Circumvention." In Proceedings of the 2015 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security. 2015. (Extended technical report available at https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~trdata/reports/TR2015-768.pdf)
Ross Koppel, Sean W. Smith, Jim Blythe, and Vijay H. Kothari. "Workarounds to Computer Access in Healthcare Organizations: You Want My Password or a Dead Patient?" ITCH 15, no. 4 (2015): 215-220.
Vijay Kothari, Jim Blythe, Sean W. Smith, and Ross Koppel. "Measuring the Security Impacts of Password Policies Using Cognitive Behavioral Agent-Based Modeling." In Proceedings of the 2015 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security. 2015.
Ross Koppel, Jim Blythe, Vijay Kothari, and Sean Smith. "Beliefs About Cybersecurity Rules and Passwords: A Comparison of Two Survey Samples of Cybersecurity Professionals Versus Regular Users." In Workshop on Security Fatigue, Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2016). 2016.
Bruno Korbar, Jim Blythe, Ross Koppel, Vijay Kothari, and Sean W. Smith. "Validating an Agent-Based Model of Human Password Behavior." In Workshops at the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2016.
Ross Koppel, Vijay H. Kothari, Sean W. Smith, and Jim Blythe. "Beyond Pleading With or Restricting Users to Achieve Cyber Security Goals: Approaches to Understanding and Responding to Circumvention (Position Paper)." CRA CCC Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Workshop. 2016
Sean W. Smith, Vijay Kothari, Jim Blythe, and Ross Koppel. "Flawed Mental Models Lead to Bad Cyber Security Decisions: Let's Do a Better Job (Position Paper)." CRA CCC Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Workshop. 2016.
Vijay Kothari, Jim Blythe, Ross Koppel, and Sean Smith. "Password Logbooks and What Their Amazon Reviews Reveal About Their Users’ Motivations, Beliefs, and Behaviors." In the Second European Workshop on Usable Security (EuroUSEC 2017). 2017.
Christopher Novak, Jim Blythe, Ross Koppel, Vijay H. Kothari, and Sean W. Smith. "Modeling Aggregate Security with User Agents that Employ Password Memorization Techniques." In Who Are You?! Adventures in Authentication (WAY 2017), Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2017. 2017.
Kothari, Vijay (Moderator), Shrirang Mare, Ross Koppel, Scott Rudkin, and Harold Thimbleby . Panel: On Developing Authentication Solutions for Healthcare Settings. Who Are You?! Adventures in Authentication (WAY 2017), Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). 2017
Blythe, Jim, Vijay Kothari, Sean Smith, and Ross Koppel. "Work in Progress: Usable Security vs. Workflow Realities." In Workshop on Usable Security (USEC 2018). 2018.
Vijay Kothari, Jim Blythe, Sean Smith, and Ross Koppel. "Data Privacy and the Elusive Goal of Empowering the User." In Workshop on Moving Beyond a `One-Size-Fits-All' Approach: Exploring Individual Differences in Privacy, CHI. 2018.
Ross Koppel, Jim Blythe, Vijay Kothari, and Sean W. Smith. "Security for the collective reality of the smart home." In Workshop on the Human Aspects of Smarthome Security Privacy (WSSP), Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2018). 2018.
Prashant Anantharaman, J. Peter Brady, Patrick Flathers, Vijay H. Kothari, Michael C. Millian, Jason Reeves, Nathan Reitinger, William G. Nisen, and Sean W. Smith. "Going Dark: A Retrospective on the North American Blackout of 2038." In Proceedings of the New Security Paradigms Workshop, pp. 52-63. 2018.
Prashant Anantharaman, Vijay Kothari, J. Peter Brady, Ira Ray Jenkins, Sameed Ali, Michael C. Millian, Ross Koppel, Jim Blythe, Sergey Bratus, and Sean W. Smith. "Mismorphism: The Heart of the Weird Machine." To appear in Proceedings of Security Protocols Workshop XXVII (NSPW 2019). Spring International Publishing. 2020
Vijay Kothari, Prashant Anantharaman, Ira Ray Jenkins, Michael C. Millian, J. Peter Brady, Sameed Ali, Sergey Bratus, Jim Blythe, Ross Koppel, and Sean W. Smith. "Human-Computability Boundaries." To appear in Proceedings of Security Protocols Workshop XXVII (NSPW 2019). Spring International Publishing. 2020
Prashant Anantharaman, J. Peter Brady, Ira Ray Jenkins, Vijay H. Kothari, Michael C. Millian, Kartik Palani, Kirti V. Rathore, Jason Reeves, Rebecca Shapiro, Syed Tanveer, Sergey Bratus, and Sean W. Smith. "Intent as a Secure Design Primitive." To appear as Chapter 24 of Modeling and Design of Secure Internet of Things. Wiley. 2020. https://books.google.com/books?id=fljywAEACAAJ
Niveta Ramkumar, Vijay Kothari, Caitlin Mills, Ross Koppel, Jim Blythe, Sean W. Smith, and Andrew Kun, "Eyes on URLs: Relating Visual Behavior to Safety Decisions." To appear in the Proceedings of the 12th ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA 2020). 2020.