Phish-Blitz
Collects the full set of resources behind phishing and legitimate webpages, keeping their visual appearance intact.
View on GitHubAbout
Aditya Kulkarni is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India, where his research focuses on phishing email and webpage detection, DNS security, privacy-preserving protocols, and cyber range development for cyber attack analysis and security hardening. He received the PhD degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad, India, and the M.Tech. degree from the National Institute of Technology, Goa, India, where he was awarded the Director's Gold Medal. He was awarded the IEEE/ACM COMSNETS 2024 Best Graduate Forum Honorable Mention Award.
His research journey has been centered on designing solutions that are practical, robust, and resilient against emerging cyber threats. Explore his work and projects to walk through the milestones and contributions that shaped this path.
Education
- 2022 to 2025 Ph.D., IIT Dharwad Networks Lab
- 2020 to 2022 M.Tech, NIT Goa
- 2015 to 2019 B.E., SJCE Mysore
Awards
- Best Graduate Forum, Honorable Mention IEEE/ACM COMSNETS 2024
- Director's Gold Medal M.Tech, NIT Goa
Tools and datasets
Open resources from my research that others can use and build on.
PhishOracle
Generates adversarial phishing webpages to test how well detection models hold up.
View on GitHubPhishing and legitimate webpage dataset
About 9K phishing and 9K legitimate webpage screenshots.
Open datasetAnnotated logo dataset
About 9K legitimate webpage screenshots with manually labelled logos.
Open datasetPublications
Journals
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From ML to LLM: Evaluating the Robustness of Phishing Webpage Detection Models against Adversarial AttacksJournalACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice, Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp. 1–25, June 2025
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Phishing Webpage Detection: Unveiling the Threat Landscape and Investigating Detection TechniquesJournalIEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Vol. 27, Issue 2, pp. 974–1007, April 2025
Conferences and workshops
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ODoQ: Oblivious DNS-over-QUICWorkshopInternet Intelligence and Governance Workshop (IIGW), IEEE/ACM COMSNETS, Bengaluru, India, January 2025
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Phish-Blitz: Advancing Phishing Detection with Comprehensive Webpage Resource Collection and Visual Integrity PreservationShort paper
IEEE/ACM COMSNETS, Bengaluru, India, January 2025
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Overcoming DNSSEC Islands of Security: A TLS and IP-Based Certificate SolutionConferenceIEEE Conference on Engineering Informatics, Dharwad, India, November 2024
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Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning Models for Phishing Webpage DetectionHonorable mention
16th IEEE/ACM COMSNETS, Graduate Forum, Bengaluru, India, January 2024
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Bridging the Gap in Phishing Detection: A Comprehensive Phishing Dataset CollectorConference17th IEEE SOLI, Singapore, December 2023
No publications from that year yet.
Milestones
Teaching assistantships
- Assistantships
- 12
- Courses
- 10
- Institutions
- 2
- Years
- 2022–25
Security and networks
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CS621TCryptography and Network Security
- Aug–Dec 2025
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CS315 + CS348Computer Networks
- Jan–May 2025
- Jan–Apr 2024
- Feb–Apr 2023
Programming and algorithms
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CS101Intro to Programming
- Aug–Dec 2024
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Python Programming
- 2024
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CS103Intro to Programming
- Aug–Dec 2023
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CS211DSA Theory and Lab
- May–Jul 2023
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CS101Intro to C Programming
- Dec 2022–Jan 2023
Systems and engineering
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Web-based Development
- 2024
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Hands on Engineering
- May 2023
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CS213Software Systems Laboratory
- Aug–Nov 2022
Gallery
Beyond research
What I do when I'm away from the keyboard.
Sketchbook
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Sketchbook
Aditya
Tap to open- ॐ त्र्यम्बकं यजामहे सुगन्धिं पुष्टिवर्धनम् । उर्वारुकमिव बन्धनान्मृत्योर्मुक्षीय माऽमृतात् ॥
- कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन । मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि ॥
- कर्पूरगौरं करुणावतारं संसारसारं भुजगेन्द्रहारम् । सदा वसन्तं हृदयारविन्दे भवं भवानीसहितं नमामि ॥
- ॐ दिगम्बराय विद्महे अवधूताय धीमहि । तन्नो दत्तः प्रचोदयात् ॥
- वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय सूर्यकोटि समप्रभ । निर्विघ्नं कुरु मे देव सर्वकार्येषु सर्वदा ॥
- पत्रं पुष्पं फलं तोयं यो मे भक्त्या प्रयच्छति । तदहं भक्त्युपहृतमश्नामि प्रयतात्मनः ॥
- सरस्वति नमस्तुभ्यं वरदे कामरूपिणि । विद्यारम्भं करिष्यामि सिद्धिर्भवतु मे सदा ॥
- यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत । अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥
- यतो धर्मस्ततो जयः ॥
- हतो वा प्राप्स्यसि स्वर्गं जित्वा वा भोक्ष्यसे महीम् । तस्मादुत्तिष्ठ कौन्तेय युद्धाय कृतनिश्चयः ॥
- A surgeon who lost the use of his hands, and found a different kind of mastery.
- Calm under pressure, relentless in the chase.
- The loud, stubborn ninja who never gave up on his dream.
- From the film Dhurandhar.