Taro Tsuchiya
Hello, welcome to my webpage! I am a 5th-year Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) School of Computer Science (SCS). I am fortunate to be advised by Professor Nicolas Christin and affiliated at CyLab (Security and Privacy Institute). My work develops large-scale measurement infrastructure to study cybercrime and computer security attacks in the wild, particularly those targeting financial systems. The examples include denial-of-service (DoS) (SIGMETRICS’25), address poisoning (USENIX Security’25), fake accounts and fraud (WWW’24, WWW’23), and malicious chatbots (ICWSM’26). I am a recipient of the Nakajima Foundation Fellowship and the CyLab Presidential Fellowship for my doctoral studies.
Previously, I was a research assistant at Cyber Civilization Research Center (CCRC) under Dr. David J. Farber in 2021 and was a research visitor at the University of Cambridge, Department of Computer Science and Technology under Professor Alice Hutchings in 2025.
news
| Mar 14, 2026 | Our paper “A Large-Scale Study of Telegram Bots” is accepted to ICWSM’26. Code and Dataset are available. I am thankful for all my co-authors! |
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| Feb 6, 2026 | I successfully passed the thesis proposal “Examining Financially-aware Adversaries” and officially became a PhD candidate! I am very thankful for my committee members. |
| Jan 12, 2026 | Our paper “Stayin’ Alive: How Global Stolen Data Markets Thrive on Telegram” is accepted to USENIX Security’26. Congratulations Tina! |
| Jan 7, 2026 | Our address poisoning paper was highlighted in Cylab’s article, which featured our Toxin Tagger that detected a 50 million USD successful attack on December 19, 2025. Thank you Michael for concise yet technical summary of our work! |
| Dec 24, 2025 | I gave a talk at University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) on Dec. 24th. Thank you for many insightful questions! |