About Me
I am a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Computing and Information Science in the University of Maine, Orono. My research interests are in the fields of Privacy, Software Engineering, and Natural Language Processing.
Pronunciation Guide - Vijayanta (Ve-Jay-Unt) Jain (Jan)
Or just VJ
Education
University of Maine
Ph.D. in Computer Science
2019 - May 2024 (expected)
Texas Tech University
B.S. in Computer Science, Suma Cum Laude
Aug 2015 - Dec 2018
Selected Publications
Jain V., Ghanavati S., Peddinti S.T, McMillan C. “Towards Fine-Grained Localization of Privacy Behaviors” 8th IEEE European Symposium of Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) 2023, Delft, The Netherlands. [Pre-Print]
Jain V., Gupta S. D., Ghanavati S., Peddinti S.T, McMillan C. “PAcT: Detecting and Classifying Privacy Behavior of Android Applications” 15th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec) 2022, San Antonio, TX. [Paper]
Jain V., “Helping Developers Create Consistent Privacy Notices for Android Applications”. Student Research Workshop at 11th ACL International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP) 2021. Bangkok, Thailand.
Jain V., Gupta S. D., Ghanavati S., Peddinti S.T., "PriGen: Towards Automated Translation of Android Applications' Code to Privacy Captions". Fifteenth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS) 2021, Limassol, Cyprus.
Jain V., Ghanavati S., "Is It Possible to Preserve Privacy in the Age of AI?" Paper presented at PrivateNLP @ The Thirteenth International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2020, Houston, TX. [PDF]
Shayegh P., Jain V., Rabinia A., Ghanavati S., Automated Approach to Improve IoT Privacy Policies. arXiv 2019. [arXiv]
Research Experience
Privacy Engineering-Regulatory Compliance Lab, Orono, Maine
Research Assistant
Jun 2018 – Present
Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research, Lubbock, Texas
Research Assistant
Feb 2016 – Apr 2019
Human-Centered Cognitive Assistance Lab, Bremen, Germany
Research Intern
Jun 2017 – Aug 2017
Professional Activities
Program Committee Member
2023
International Workshop on Evolving Security & Privacy Requirements Engineering (ESPRE)
2022
Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing (PrivateNLP)
Subreviewer
2022
Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)
International iStar (i*) Workshop
International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering Workshop (MoDRE)
International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS)
2021
Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)
International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS)
International Working Conference on Requirement Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ)
Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (NLP4RE)
Mining Software Repositories (MSR)
2020
International iStar (i*) Workshop
International Working Conference on Requirement Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ)
Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (NLP4RE)
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Requirements Engineering Track (SAC-RE)
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)
Awards and Honors
Research Awards
2022
WiSec Travel Scholarship
2021
Nominated for Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
2020
Voted Best Short Talk at 2020 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
2018
CALUE Undergraduate Travel Funding
CALUE Undergraduate Scholar Project Funding
CISER Christopher Rodriguez Best Oral Presentation Award
Department of Computer Science Gopal Asha Lakhani Scholarship
Dr. Richard L. Blanton Undergraduate Research Scholarship
SACNAS Conference Travel Scholarship
2nd place in Poster Presentation award at the URC Texas Tech University
2017
CALUE Undergraduate Travel Funding
CALUE Undergraduate Scholar Project Funding
Academic and Leadership Awards
2018
President’s Honor List
2017
Institutional Diversity Success Scholarship
GLEAMM Energy Innovation Scholar
Presidential Globally Engaged Scholarship
Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Grant
President’s Excellence in Diversity and Equity Award =
2016
President’s Honor List
2015
President’s Honor List