Mohit Singhal

Mohit Singhal

Research Active Assistant Teaching Professor

Publications

Aleksandric, A., Singhal, M., Groggel, A., & Nilizadeh, S. (2026, June). The Power of Social Norms: How Initial Responses to Toxicity Shape Conversations on Twitter. To appear in the 7th International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc) at the International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2026).

Khorzooghi, S. M. S. M., Thota, P., Singhal, M., Asudeh, A., Das, G., & Nilizadeh, S. (2026, June). Unequal Privacy: Auditing Demographic Bias Vulnerabilities in Visual Protection Systems. To appear in Asia CCS 2026.

PettyJohn, M. E., Cary, K. M., Dandekar, S., Singhal, M., Nilizadeh, S., & Voth Schrag, R. (2026, January). Characteristics of technology-facilitated abuse and safety strategies discussed in the Reddit community, r/stalking. [Poster]. Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, D.C.

Khorzooghi, S. M. S. M., Thota, P., Singhal, M., Asudeh, A., Das, G., & Nilizadeh, S. (2025, August). [Poster] FairDeFace: Evaluating the Fairness and Adversarial Robustness of Face Obfuscation Methods. In USENIX Security 2025.

Kumarswamy, N.*, Singhal, M.*, & Nilizadeh, S. (2025, April). Causal Insights into Parler’s Content Moderation Shift: Effects on Toxicity and Factuality. In Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025 (pp. 3762-3771). (* Joint Co-First Authors) ACM WWW 2025.

Vafa, E. P.*, Singhal, M.*, Thota, P., & Roy, S. S. (2024, November). Learning from Censored Experiences: Social Media Discussions around Censorship Circumvention Technologies. In 2025 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) (pp. 62-62). IEEE Computer Society. (* Joint Co-First Authors) IEEE S&P 2025.

Singhal, M., Pacheco, J., Moosavi Khorzooghi, S. M. S., Debi, T., Asudeh, A., Das, G., & Nilizadeh, S. (2025). Auditing Yelp’s Business Ranking and Review Recommendation Through the Lens of Fairness. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 19(1), 1798-1816. ICWSM 2025.

Singhal, M., Ling, C., Paudel, P., Thota, P., Kumarswamy, N., Stringhini, G., & Nilizadeh, S. (2022). SoK: Content Moderation in Social Media, from Guidelines to Enforcement, and Research to Practice. In 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy IEEE EuroS&P 2023.

Singhal, M., Kumarswamy, N., Kinhekar, S., & Nilizadeh, S. (2021). Cybersecurity Misinformation Detection on Social Media: Case Studies on Phishing Reports and Zoom’s Threats. In 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media ICWSM 2023.

Singhal, M., Kumarswamy, N., Kinhekar, S., & Nilizadeh, S. (2021). Poster: Detecting Misinformation about Zoom’s Security and Privacy Threats. In NDSS 2022. Recieved Best Technical Poster

Singhal, M., & Levine, D. (2019, October). Analysis and categorization of drive-by download malware. In 2019 4th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Security ICCCS.

Preprints

Wang, Y., Vu, H. G. H., & Singhal, M. (2026). The Tag is the Signal: URL-Agnostic Credibility Scoring for Messages on Telegram. arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.13294.

Shin, H., Moon, H., & Singhal, M. (2026). How Diplomacy Reshapes Online Discourse: Asymmetric Persistence in Online Framing of North Korea. arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.09942.