Scholar
Bogdan Carbunar
Google Scholar ID: B7BCFdoAAAAJ
Florida International University
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,220
H-index
18
i10-index
35
Publications
20
Co-authors
9
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Paper 'Cooperative Dynamics of Censorship, Misinformation, and Influence Operations' accepted at ACM CSCW 2025
- Paper 'INVISILINE: Invisible Plausibly-Deniable Storage' published at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2024
- Paper 'A Study of China's Censorship and Its Evasion Through the Lens of Online Gaming' published at Usenix Security 2023
- Advised multiple PhD students whose theses addressed censorship evasion, blockchain security, app store fraud, image-based authentication, and social network abuse detection
- Longstanding service on program committees of top-tier security and privacy venues including IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, Usenix Security, PoPETS, and ACM Web Conference
Background
- Associate Professor at the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University (FIU)
- Director of the CaSPR Lab in Miami
- Studies how powerful actors—including corporations, governments, and coordinated networks—shape online information
- Develops methods to detect manipulation, explain risks to users, and enable protective actions
- Aims to shift power back to users by strengthening autonomy, privacy, and security at scale
- Integrates AI, applied cryptography, systems engineering, and user studies in research
- Detects and audits manipulative information flows at platform scale and translates findings into practical user-centric defenses
