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Arghya Mukherjee

I am a PhD student in the Tandy School of Computer Science at the University of Tulsa. I work in the Security Economics Laboratory advised by Prof. Tyler Moore. My research focuses on measuring effects of cybercrime in cryptocurrency eco-system.

I received a MSc in Networks and Distributed systems from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland and Bachelors degree from the West Bengal University of Technology in Computer Applications

Currently I am looking for a full-time opportunity starting in May 2023 with an expected graduation date of May 2023.

Download CV (PDF) [ here ].

Work Experience

The University of Tulsa

Adjunct Faculty
May, 2022 - Present

  • Summer 2022
    • CYB 7163 : Cyber Security Practicum

      • Experiential lab course in which students apply cyber security concepts from system, web, and network security, as well as cryptography. Students craft attacks in a contained environment and implement defenses.

Teaching Assistant
August, 2021 - Present
Undergraduate programming laboratory classes
  • Fall 2022
    • CS 1040 : Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving (Java)
  • Fall 2021
    • CS 2003 : Fundamentals of Algorithm and Computer Applications (Java)
    • ES 2513 : Engineering Applications Programming (Matlab & Python)
  • Spring 2022
    • CS 2003 : Fundamentals of Algorithm and Computer Applications (Python)

Research Assistant
January, 2018 - Present

  • Conducted interdiciplinary research in Cyber Security and Economics independently as well as with a group on international scholars
  • Collected and analyzed data in R and Python for doctoral research
  • Maintained cyber security research data infrastructure

Anti-Phishing Working Group
 Data Curator
October, 2020 - Present

  • Collected and analyzed cryptocurrency wallet data involved in scams and crimes
  • Created cybercrime taxonomy, clustered wallet data to identify cybercrime groups

PricewaterhouseCoopers
 IT Risk Assurance, Associate
January, 2015 - December, 2016

  • Performed internal audit as well as assisted organizations to improve risk management and internal controls

Research

Arghya Mukherjee and Tyler Moore"Cryptocurrency exchange closure revisted (Again)", eCrime 2022, APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, November 2022. [ Paper]

JT Hamrick, Farhang Rouhi, Arghya Mukherjee, Amir Feder, Neil Gandal, Tyler Moore, and Marie Vasek. "Analyzing Target-Based Cryptocurrency Pump and Dump Schemes", 2021 ACM CCS Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security, November 2021. [ Paper]

JT Hamrick, Farhang Rouhi, Arghya Mukherjee, Amir Feder, Neil Gandal, Tyler Moore, and Marie Vasek. "The Economics of Cryptocurrency Pump and Dump Schemes", Information Processing and management, July 2021. [ Paper]

JT Hamrick, Farhang Rouhi, Arghya Mukherjee, Amir Feder, Neil Gandal, Tyler Moore, and Marie Vasek. "The Economics of Cryptocurrency Pump and Dump Schemes", Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, June 2019. [ Paper]

Theses
Doctoral dissertation: Measuring life span of cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Coming May 2023.

Masters dissertation: Measuring enterprise IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) standards (2014)

Advisor: Dr. Colin Allison

News

Bloomberg wrote an article about my research into cryptocurrency pump and dump schemes.

Bruce Schenier, a renowned security expert wrote a blog on our study.

Contact
Email: arghya-mukherjee@utulsa.edu
Github: https://github.com/amukherjee1991/
Mailing Address: Tandy School of Computer Science
Rayzor Hall 2245
The University of Tulsa
800 S Tucker Dr
Tulsa, OK 74104