I was a PhD candidate at the The University of Texas at Dallas and worked as a Research Assistant at the Data Security and Privacy Lab advised by Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham and Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu and graduated in August 2022. My area of academic research during my PhD was Adversarial Machine Learning & Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Data Security & Privacy, and Model Interpretability and Fairness for Social Good.

Links

• Linkedin
• Resume
• Github
• Other Links: Google Scholar, dblp, Semantic Scholar, Research Gate, orcid

Selected Publications

• Domain-specific Question Answering with Hybrid Search
  Dewang Sultania, Zhaoyu Lu, Twisha Naik, Franck Dernoncourt, David Seunghyun Yoon, Sanat Sharma, Trung Bui, Ashok Gupta, Tushar Vatsa, Suhas Suresha, Ishita Verma, Vibha Belavadi, Cheng Chen, Michael Friedrich, 2025 AAAI Workshop on Document Understanding and Intelligence, pdf.
• Attack Some while Protecting Others: Selective Attack Strategies for Attacking and Protecting Multiple Concepts
  Vibha Belavadi, Yan Zhou, Murat Kantarcioglu, Bhavani Thuraisingham, 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pdf.
• MultiModal Deception Detection: Accuracy, Applicability and Generalizability
  Vibha Belavadi, Yan Zhou, Jonathan Z Bakdash, Murat Kantarcioglu, Daniel C Krawczyk, Linda Nguyen, Jelena Rakic, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham (UT Dallas & US Army Research Lab), 2020 IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications, pdf.
• Attacking Machine Learning Models for Social Good
  Vibha Belavadi, Yan Zhou, Murat Kantarcioglu, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham (UT Dallas), 2020 GameSec: International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, pdf.

Academic Services

• Reviewer for KDD (2021, 2019), ACM CODASPY 2021, WebConf (2021, 2019), ML Reproduciblity Challenge (2020), IEEE TDSC 2020, PAKDD (2020,2019) ACM CCS 2020, SDM (2019, 2018).
• Student Technical Program Committee Member for SmartStudents 2019.
• Speaker at WiDS (Women in Data Science) 2020, organized at UT Dallas.
• Student Vounteer for ICDE 2020, ACM CODASPY 2019.

Awards and Leadership

• Travel Award (2019, 2018) for WiCyS (Women in Cyber Security Conference) by Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas.
• Travel Award (2017) for CRA-W Grad Cohort, The University of Texas at Dallas.
• Graduate Teaching Assistantship (2016) by Erik Jonsson School of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas.
• Erik Jonsson $1000 Scholarship (2014) by Erik Jonsson School of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas.
• 2nd Prize, Apogee - Tech fest, BITS Pilani (2012) by Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS-Pilani).
• KVPY Fellowship (2009) by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
• NTSE Scholarship (2008) by National Council Education Research and Training (NCERT), Government of India.