Gokila Dorai

Scholarship

Selected Recent Publications

• Privacy-Preserving Framework to Facilitate Shared Data Access for Wearable Devices, 2022
  Conference Proceeding
• Forensic Analysis of the Snapchat iOS App with Spectacles-Synced Artifacts, 2022
  Book, Scholarly-New
• Grey Areas of Digital Forensic Tools and a Framework to Solve the IoT Data Forensic Analysis Problems, 2022
  Abstract
• Preliminary Analysis of Privacy Implications Observed in Social-Media (Influencer) Posts Across Multiple Shopping Platforms, 2022
  Conference Proceeding
• DECADE - Deep Learning Based Content-hiding Application Detection System for Android, 2021
  Conference Proceeding

Research Interests

Dr. Dorai’s areas of research are digital/mobile/IoT forensics. She has been working on developing a targeted data extraction model aimed at faster and efficient evidence retrieval using machine learning and computer vision. She is also interested in developing software prototypes to aid criminal investigations in support of law enforcement and other practitioners.

Research Awards and Grants:
1. Received the NSA’s Cybersecurity Research Innovation Grant for the project titled "Cyber Attack Detection Using Metadata Analysis and Edge-Based Real-Time Machine Learning on Sensor Data".
Additional details: Dr. Gokila Dorai is the PI and Dr. Gagan Agrawal is the Co-PI on the $494,999.51 award from the National Security Agency. The award is made within the NSA’s Cybersecurity Research Innovation program for institutions that are designated as National Centers of Academic Excellence (NCAE).

2. Received the NSF's Research Grant Award for the project titled "A Socio-Technical Framework for Handling Digital Evidence with Security and Privacy Assurance".
Additional details: Dr. Gokila Dorai is the PI and Drs. Hoda Maleki and Gagan Agrawal are Co-PIs on the new $569,500.00 award. The award is made possible through the National Science Foundation’s Designing Accountable Software Systems (DASS) program. The project includes a social sciences component on which the PIs are collaborating with Dr. Thomas Kadri, the University of Georgia School of Law faculty. Dr. Kadri will be funded $180,000.00 award by NSF separately.