Hello! My name is Shashank Arora, and I am currently a faculty at University at Albany, SUNY. I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University at Albany, SUNY. My research interests include Applied Cryptography, Cloud Security, Multimedia Computing and Forensics. I am currently working on projects in the areas of secure processing & editing of data over cloud, secure communication protocols in cloud systems and gaze detection and correction in group images. I am working with Prof. Pradeep Atrey at the University at Albany, SUNY.

• Ph.D. Computer Science, University at Albany, SUNY, USA (August 2017 - December 2022)
• M.S. Computer Science, University at Albany, SUNY, USA (August 2015 - December 2016)
• B.Tech. Computer Science, Amity University, India (August 2008 - May 2012).

• Faculty, University at Albany, SUNY, USA (August 2023 - Present)
• Research Assistant, University at Albany, SUNY, USA (October 2022 - July 2023)
• Teaching Assistant, University at Albany, SUNY, USA (August 2017 - July 2022)
• Student Research Assistant, University at Albany, SUNY, USA (January 2016 - May 2017)
• Software Engineer, Wipro Technologies, Hyderabad, India (September 2012 - June 2015)

• S Arora and PK Atrey. SecureC2Edit: A Framework for Secure Collaborative and Concurrent Document Editing, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TSDC)
• O Kulkarni, S Arora, A Mishra, VK Singh and PK Atrey. A Multi-stage Bias Reduction Framework for Eye Gaze Detection, The 6th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR), Singapore, September 2023
• O Kulkarni, S Arora and PK Atrey. GARGI: Selecting Gaze-Aware Representative Group Image from a Live Photo, The 5th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR), San Jose, CA, USA, August 2022
• S Arora and PK Atrey. Secure Collaborative Editing Using Secret Sharing, IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), Montpellier, France, December 2021
• G Kodwani, S Arora and PK Atrey. On Security of Key Derivation Functions in Password-based Cryptography, IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), Virtual, July 2021
• O Kulkarni, V Patil, SB Parikh, S Arora and PK Atrey. Can You All Look Here? Towards Determining Gaze Uniformity In Group Images, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), Taipei, Taiwan, December 2020
• P Singh, S Arora, K Williamson and PK Atrey. S3Email: A Method for Securing Emails from Service Providers, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Banff, AB, Canada, October 2017
• S Arora, G Varshney, PK Atrey and M Misra. SecureCEdit: An Approach for Secure Cloud-based Document Editing, IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Philadelphia, PA, USA, October 2016

• SecureCEdit: Secure Collaborative and Concurrent Editing
• GARGI: Gaze-Aware Representative Group Image Selection
• SecureCMail: Securing Emails from Service Providers

• CSI 409/509: Automata and Formal Languages (Fall 2023)
• CSI 518: Software Engineering (Fall 2023)

• CSI 201: Introduction to Computer Science (Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Summer 2022)
• CSI 210: Discrete Structures (Fall 2020)
• CSI 213: Data Structures (Summer 2021)
• CSI 311: Principles of Programming Languages (Spring 2018, Fall 2018)
• CSI 404: Computer Organization (Spring 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2022)
• CSI 409: Automata and Formal Languages (Spring 2020)
• CSI 412: Operating Systems (Fall 2020)
• CSI 426/526: Cryptography (Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021)
• CSI 433/533: Multimedia Computing (Fall 2019)
• CSI 499: Capstone Project in Computer Science (Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022)

In my spare time, I like to read fiction novels. I've been working on The Wheel of Time series for an embarrassingly long amount of time. I'm on book 12, The Gathering Storm, right now. If I'm not reading, I try to practice playing guitar as much as I can to try to keep my passion for music alive. I also try to keep up to date with the latest Metal and Rock releases and try to attend as many concerts as I can. I've been playing guitar for almost 15 years now. Once a week, I tune into the Critical Role D&D stream. Although I've never played D&D myself, I find the interactive storytelling fascinating.