Research Publications
Research Publications
2025
Du, Y., Singh, K., Aggarwal, P., Fang, F., & Gonzalez, C. Emergent Cooperative Decision-Making in Triadic Prisoner's Dilemma: Effects of Incentives and Information. Available at SSRN 5136406.
Sharma¹, S., Thakur¹, S., Sharma¹, M., Goyal¹, R., Uttrani, S., Katakwar, H., Singh, K. ... & Dutt¹, V. (2025). Analysis of Large Language and Instance-Based Learning Models in Mimicking Human Cyber-Attack Strategies in HackIT Simulator. Human Factors in Cybersecurity, 168, 57.
2024
Kuikel, S., Ferreira, M. J., Singh, K., Aggarwal, P., & Gonzalez, C. (2024, September). Agreement and Divergence in Predicting Human Phishing Classification Decisions. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 215-220). Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications.
Singh, K., Aggarwal, P., & Gonzalez, C. (2024). Does Penalty Help People Learn to Detect Phishing Emails?. Human Factors in Cybersecurity, 127(127).
2023
Singh, K., Aggarwal, P., Rajivan, P., & Gonzalez, C. (2023). Cognitive elements of learning and discriminability in anti-phishing training. Computers & Security, 127, 103105.
Sharma, M., Singh, K., Aggarwal, P., & Dutt, V. (2023, July). How well does GPT phish people? An investigation involving cognitive biases and feedback. In 2023 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW) (pp. 451-457). IEEE.
Xu, T., Singh, K., & Rajivan, P. (2023). Personalized persuasion: Quantifying susceptibility to information exploitation in spear-phishing attacks. Applied Ergonomics, 108, 103908.
2022
Xu, T., Singh, K., & Rajivan, P. (2022, January). Modeling Phishing Decision using Instance Based Learning and Natural Language Processing. In HICSS (pp. 1-10).
Miah, M. S., Aggarwal, P., Gutierrez, M., Thakoor, O., Du, Y., Veliz, O., ... & Gonzalez, C. (2022). Diversifying Deception: Game-Theoretic Models for Two-Sided Deception and Initial Human Studies. In Cyber Deception: Techniques, Strategies, and Human Aspects (pp. 1-23). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Du, Y., Aggarwal, P., Singh, K., & Gonzalez, C. (2022). "Modeling of Multi-Defender Collaboration in a Cyber-Security Scenario. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the International Conference on Cognitive Modelling.
2021
Singh, K., Aggarwal, P., & Gonzalez C. A Social Dilemma for Cybersecurity: Sharing information among defenders, Collective Intelligence 2021.
Aggarwal, P., Du, Y., Singh, K., Gonzalez, C. (2021). Decoys in Cybersecurity: An Exploratory Study to Test the Effectiveness of 2-sided Deception. Presented at the 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Cyber Defense, 2021. arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.11037.
Cranford, E. A., Singh, K., Aggarwal, P., Lebiere, C., Gonzalez, C. (2021). Modeling phishing susceptibility as decisions from experience. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the International Conference on Cognitive Modelling (ICCM 2021).
Tianhao Xu, Singh, K., & Rajivan, P. SpearSim: Design and Evaluation of Synthetic Task Environment for Studies on SpearPhishing Attacks (Submitted), HFES 2021.
2020
Singh, K., Aggarwal, P., Rajivan, P., & Gonzalez C..What makes phishing emails hard for humans to detect? Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 64(1), 431 - 435, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/1071181320641097
Singh, K., Aggarwal, P., Rajivan, P., & Gonzalez C..Training to detect phishing emails: Effect of the frequency of experienced phishing emails. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 63(1), 453-457, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/1071181319631355