Poorvi Vora - Research
- Journal Publications: In Review
- David Chaum, Jeroen van de Graaf, Peter Y. A. Ryan and Poorvi L. Vora. Secret Ballot Elections with Unconditional Integrity. In review. Also available as Report 2007/270, cryptology eprint archive.
- Darakhshan J. Mir and Poorvi L. Vora. Related-Key Statistical Cryptanalysis. In review. A previous draft available as Report 2007/227 in the cryptology eprint archive.
- Sumit Joshi, Yu-An Sun and Poorvi L. Vora. Price Discrimination and Privacy: A Note. In review.
- Sumit Joshi, Yu-An Sun and Poorvi L. Vora. The Influence of Valuation Estimation on Sealed-Bid Auctions. In review.
- Sumit Joshi and Poorvi L. Vora. Networks of Multimarket Bidding Rings. In review.
- Yu-An Sun and Poorvi L. Vora. Private-Value Auctions and Differential Pricing: Optimal Seller and Bidder Strategies in Second-Chance Offers. In review.
- Stefan Popoveniuc and Poorvi L. Vora. A framework for secure electronic voting. In review.
- David Chaum, Ben Hosp, Stefan Popoveniuc and Poorvi L. Vora. Accessible Voter Verifiability. In review.
- Journal Publications: Accepted/Appeared
- Rahul Simha and Poorvi L. Vora. Vote Verification using Hard AI Problems. To appear, Journal of Information Assurance and Security, vol. 3, no. 3, 2008
- Ben Hosp and Poorvi L. Vora. An Information-Theoretic Model of Voting Systems. To appear, Mathematical and Computer Modelling. Special issue on: Mathematical Modeling of Voting Systems and Elections: Theory and Applications. Oct/Nov 2008.
- David Chaum, Aleks Essex, Richard Carback, Jeremy Clark, Stefan Popoveniuc, Alan T. Sherman, Poorvi Vora. Scantegrity: End-to-End Voter Verifiable Optical-Scan Voting. IEEE Security and Privacy, Vol 6., No. 3, pp. 40-46, May/June 2008
- Poorvi L. Vora. An Information-Theoretic Approach to Inference Attacks on
Random Data Perturbation and a Related Privacy Measure. IEEE Trans. Info Theory, Vol. 53, No. 8, pp 2971-2977, August 2007.
- P.L. Vora, B. Adida, R. Bucholz, D. Chaum, D.L. Dill, D.
Jefferson, D.W. Jones, W. Lattin, A.D. Rubin, M.I. Shamos, and M.
Yung. Evaluation of Voting Systems. Inside Risks Column.
Communications of the ACM, vol. 47, no. 11, November
2004.
- K. Gopalakrishnan, Nasir D. Memon and Poorvi L. Vora. Protocols
for Watermark Verification. IEEE Multimedia, special issue on Multimedia
and Security, pp. 66-71, Oct-Dec. 20011
- Poorvi L. Vora. Inner products and orthogonality in colour recording
filter design. IEEE Trans. Image Proc , vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 632-642,
Apr. 20012
- Poorvi L. Vora, Joyce E. Farrell, Jerome D. Tietz,
David H. Brainard. Image Capture: Simulation of Sensor Responses from
Hyperspectral Images.
IEEE Trans. Image Proc , vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 307-316,
Feb. 20013
- Poorvi L. Vora and H. Joel Trussell.
Mathematical Methods for the Analysis of Color Scanning Filters
IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 321-327,
Feb. 1997.
- Poorvi L. Vora and H. Joel Trussell.
Mathematical Methods for the Design of Color Scanning Filters
IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 312-320,
Feb. 1997.
- Poorvi L. Vora and H. Joel Trussell. Measure of goodness of a set of color scanning filters.
Journal of the Optical Society of America-A,
vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 1499-1508, July 1993.
- Conference Publications
- Stefan Popoveniuc and Poorvi L. Vora. Remote ballot casting with Captchas. To be presented, WISSEC.
- Stefan Popoveniuc and Poorvi L. Vora. A framework for secure electronic voting. WOTE 08
- Rahul Simha and Poorvi L. Vora. Vote Verification using CAPTCHA-like Primitives. WOTE 07
- Sumit Joshi, Yu-An Sun, Poorvi L. Vora.
Privacy In A Multi-Stage Game -- An Evolutionary Programming Approach. To be presented,
6th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Economics & Finance, July 2007.
- Sumit Joshi, Yu-An Sun, Poorvi L. Vora.
Randomization as a Seller Strategy during Price Discrimination, and
its Impact on Bidder Privacy. WPES 06.
- Poorvi L. Vora, Darakhshan Mir. Related-Key Linear Cryptanalysis. ISIT06.
- Ben Hosp, Poorvi L. Vora. "An Information-Theoretic Model of Voting Systems".
- Sumit Joshi, Yu-An Sun, Poorvi L. Vora. The Privacy Cost of the
Second Chance Offer. WPES '05. Presentation
- Lillie Coney, Joseph L. Hall, Poorvi L. Vora, David Wagner.
Towards a Privacy Measurement Criterion for Voting Systems.
National Conference on Digital Government Research, Atlanta, May 2005.
- Poorvi Vora. Information Theory and the Security of Binary
Data Perturbation. pp 136-147, INDOCRYPT 2004.
Power Point Presentation.
- Cormac Herley, Poorvi Vora and Xuguang Yang. Detection and
Deterrence of Counterfeit of Valuable Documents. Proceedings,
ICIP, 2004.
- Poorvi Vora. The channel coding theorem and the security of
binary randomization, ISIT, pp.
306, 2003. (extended abstract)
- Nasir Memon, Poorvi Vora, Boon-Lock Yeo, Minerva Yeung.
Distortion bounded authentication techniques,
Proceedings of the SPIE, Security and Watermarking of
Multimedia Contents II, vol.3971, pp. 164-74, 24-26 Jan. 2000
- Poorvi L. Vora, Robust Watermarking Using Argument Modulation.
PICS (Image Processing, Image Quality, Image Capture Systems)
conference, Savannah, Georgia, April 25-28, 1999.
- Richard L. Baer, William D. Holland, Jack Holm,
Poorvi Vora. A Comparison of Primary and Complementary
Color Filters for CCD-based Digital Photography.
Proceedings, IS\&T/SPIE Conference on
Sensors, Cameras, and Applications for Digital Photography, San
Jose, CA, 27 January 1999, vol. 3650, pp. 16-25.
- Nasir Memon and Poorvi Vora. Authentication
Techniques for Multimedia Content. SPIE Conference on Multimedia Systems and
Applications, Photonics East, Boston, MA, 2 November 1998, vol.
3528, pp. 412-422.
- Poorvi L. Vora and Cormac E. Herley. Trade-offs
between color saturation and noise sensitivity in image
sensors. Proc. of the Int. Conf. Image Proc., Chicago, Oct. 1998.
- Poorvi L. Vora, Joyce E. Farrell, Jerome D. Tietz,
David H. Brainard. Linear models for digital cameras. Proceedings,
IS&T's 50th Annual Conference, 18-23 May 1997, Cambridge, Massachsetts,
pp. 377-382.
- Poorvi L. Vora, Michael L. Harville, Joyce E. Farrell,
Jerome D. Tietz, David H. Brainard. Image capture: synthesis of
sensor responses from multispectral images. Proceedings, SPIE and
IS&T conference on Color Imaging: Device-Independent Color, Color Hard Copy,
and Graphic Arts II, vol. 3018, pp. 2-11, 1997.
- Bhaskar Bhumkar, Poorvi L. Vora, B. Chandna
and K. Shankar. A Set Theoretic Approach
to Image Reconstruction from Projections.
Int. Conf. on Image Proc., Laussanne, Sept. 1996.
- Poorvi L. Vora, H. Joel Trussell and Lawrence Iwan,
Design Results for a Set of Thin Film
Color Scanning Filters, IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic
Imaging, Science and Technology, San Jose, CA, 6-10 Feb. 1995.
- Poorvi L. Vora, H. Joel Trussell and Lawrence Iwan,
A Mathematical Method for the Design
of Color Scanning Filters, IS&T/SPIE Symposium on
Electronic Imaging, Science and Technology, San Jose, CA,
31 Jan - 5 Feb. 1993.
- H. Joel Trussell and Poorvi L. Vora. On the Accuracy of
Scanning Color Images. International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. 3,
pp. 161-164, 1992.
- Poorvi L. Vora and H. Joel Trussell,
Measures of Goodness of a Set of Color Scanning Filters,
Proc. SPIE and IS&T Conference on Color Hard Copy and
Graphic Arts, vol. 1670, pp. 344-351 Feb. 11-Feb. 14, 1992.
- H. Joel Trussell and Poorvi L. Vora. Bounds on Restoration
Quality Using Spatial a priori Information. International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, New
York, NY. Vol. 3, pp. 1758-1761, 1988.
- Book Chapters
- I. Dickinson, D.
Reynolds, D. Banks, S. Cayzer, Poorvi Vora. User profiling with privacy: a
foundation for adaptive information agents. Intelligent Information
Agents: An AgentLink Perspective, Chp. 4.Editors: Matthias
Klusch, Sonia Bergamaschi, Pete Edwards, Paolo Petta. Springer Verlag, LNCS
Volume 2586/2003, Pages: 123 - 151, 2003.
- Selected Invited Presentations
- Cryptanalysis
- Georgia Tech., April 2008
- Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, India, December 2006
- Information Theory Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, April 2006
- Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Princeton, February 2006
- IBM Research, Hawthorne, February, 2006
- Electronic Voting
- Dagstuhl seminar
Frontiers of
Electronic Voting, July 2007.
- NSF Washington Area Trustworthy Systems Hour (WATSH) October 2004
- DIMACS Workshop on Electronic Voting, Rutgers University, May 2004
- Privacy
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, July 2008
- Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India, July 2008
- TAMI/PORTIA Workshop, MIT, 2006
- Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, August 2005
- DIMACS/Portia Workshop on Privacy in Data Mining, Rutgers University, March 2004
- DIMACS/Portia Working Group on Privacy in Data Mining, Rutgers University, March 2004
- IBM Research, Hawthorne, April, 2003
- Workshop on Privacy in D.A.T.A., Carnegie Mellon University, March 27-28, 2003.
Slides, PPT,
Slides, PDF,
Slides, html
- Security Seminar, College of Computing and Information Security Center, Georgia Tech.,
November, 2002
- Security Group Seminar, Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford University, October 2002
- Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley, September 2002
- Microsoft Research, Redmond, September 2002
- Dept. of Computer Science, Brooklyn Polytechnic University, August 2002
- Unpublished
- Poorvi Vora. Towards a theory of variable privacy.
Presentation
- Poorvi Vora. David Chaum’s Voter Verification using Encrypted Paper Receipts.
- Technical Reports (other than those listed in footnotes to journal papers)
- Darakhshan J. Mir and Poorvi L. Vora. Related-Key Statistical Cryptanalysis. Report 2007/227 in the cryptology eprint archive.
- Poorvi L. Vora.
David Chaum’s Voter Verification using Encrypted Paper
Receipts. IACR eprint archive, no. 2005/050. Submitted 20 Feb., 2005.
- Poorvi L. Vora, Joyce E. Farrell, Jerome D. Tietz, David H. Brainard>,
"Digital color cameras - 1 - Response Models",
Hewlett-Packard Technical Report, HPL-97-53, March 1997.
Abstract,
Postscript,
pdf
- Poorvi L. Vora, Joyce E. Farrell, Jerome D. Tietz, David H. Brainard,
"Digital color cameras - 2 - Spectral Response",
Hewlett-Packard Technical Report, HPL-97-54, March 1997.
Abstract,
Postscript,
pdf
- Patents Granted
- "Anonymous transactions based on distributed processing", (with V. Knapp). US7,187,772.
Filed 10 May 2002. Issued 6 March 2007.
- "Detection and deterrence of counterfeiting of documents"
having a characteristic color. US
6748100. Issued June 8, 2004. (with X. Yang and C. Herley).
- "Multi-level detection and deterrence of counterfeiting of
documents with reduced false detection", (with X. Yang and C.
Herley). US
6516078. Filed July 29, 1999. Issued February 4,
2003.
- "Probabilistic Privacy Protection", (with U. Vazirani and V. Knapp). US
6470299. Filed November 2, 2000. Issued October 22, 2002.
- "Robust watermarking for digital objects". US
6463162. Filed September 30, 1998. Issued October 8, 2002.
- "Detection and deterrence of counterfeiting of two-sided documents", (with C. Herley). US6335794.
Filed 23 December 1998. Issued January 1, 2002.
- Standards Position papers
- Poorvi Vora, Dave Reynolds, Ian Dickinson, John Erickson,
Dave Banks. Privacy and Digital Rights Management, a position paper for
the W3C workshop on Digital Rights Management, January 2001, Antibes, France.
Power Point Presentation
- John Erickson, Matt Williamson, Dave Reynolds, Poorvi
Vora, Peter Rodgers. Principles for Standardization and Interoperability in
Web-based Digital Rights Management, a position paper for the W3C workshop on Digital
Rights Management, January 2001, Antibes, France.
- Sponsorship
- NSF CCF 0830576 (2008-2010)
- NSF Cybertrust 0831149 (2008-2010)
- NSF 0505510 (2005-2006)
- HP Research Gift 2004
- GW Dilthey Award (07/2004-08/2004)
- NIST Workshop co-sponsorship (06/2006)
- GW/SEAS Start-up Funds (2003-2007)
- Non-technical
- "On my return from Dacca" translated from the Urdu of Faiz Ahmed Faiz (Dacca se wapasi par) by Poorvi
Vora,
To Topos Poetry International, PACIFICA: PEACE & the SEA, Vol. 5, pg. 50, 2003.
- "Shackles on your feet" translated from the Urdu of Faiz Ahmed Faiz (Aaj Bazaar Mein) by Poorvi
Vora,
To Topos Poetry International, PACIFICA: PEACE & the SEA, Vol. 5, pg. 49, 2003.
- "August '52" translated from the Urdu of Faiz Ahmed Faiz (Agast '52) by Poorvi Vora,
To Topos Poetry International, PACIFICA: PEACE & the SEA, Vol. 5, pg. 48, 2003.
- "The Ocean of Your Eyes"
translated from the Urdu of Faiz Ahmed Faiz (Teri Samandar Ankhon Mein) by Poorvi Vora and Susan Chacko
- Mental Health and Illness, Maitri newsletter, July 1997.
1 Also appeared in Proceedings of the Multimedia and Security Workshop, Oct. 1999
2 Available in pre-reviewed form as Hewlett-Packard Technical
Report, HPL-98-189, November 1998.
Abstract,
Postscript,
pdf
3Available in pre-reviewed form as Hewlett-Packard Technical
Report, HPL-98-187, November 1998.
Abstract,
Postscript,
pdf
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