Akanksha Atrey
Akanksha Atrey Research Scientist
Software and Data Systems Research Lab
Nokia Bell Labs
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Publications

  1. MATH-AI, NeurIPS 2025 Can Large Language Models Learn Formal Logic? A Data-Driven Training and Evaluation Framework
    Yuan Xia, Akanksha Atrey, Fadoua Khmaissia, Kedar S. Namjoshi
    MATH-AI Workshop at NeurIPS 2025.

  2. FutureG, NDSS 2025 Trust or Bust: A Survey of Threats in Decentralized Wireless Networks
    Hetvi Shastri, Akanksha Atrey, Andre Beck, Nirupama Ravi
    Workshop on Security and Privacy of Next-Generation Networks (FutureG), co-located with the NDSS Symposium 2025.

  3. CSCW 2024 W4-Groups: Modeling the Who, What, When and Where of Group Behavior Via Mobility Sensing
    Akanksha Atrey, Camellia Zakaria, Rajesh Balan, Prashant Shenoy
    ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) 2024.

  4. SEC 2023 SODA: Protecting Proprietary Information in On-Device Machine Learning Models
    Akanksha Atrey, Ritwik Sinha, Saayan Mitra, Prashant Shenoy
    ACM/IEEE Symposium of Edge Computing (SEC) 2023.

  5. WWW 2022 Towards Preserving Server-Side Privacy of On-Device Models.
    Akanksha Atrey, Ritwik Sinha, Somdeb Sarkhel, Saayan Mitra, David Arbour, Akash V. Maharaj, Prashant Shenoy
    The Web Conference (WWW) 2022. [poster]

  6. Applied AI Letters 2021 Measuring and Characterizing Generalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning
    Sam Witty, Jun K. Lee, Emma Tosch, Akanksha Atrey, Kaleigh Clary, Michael L. Littman, David Jensen
    Applied AI Letters 2021.

  7. ICDCS 2021 Preserving Privacy in Personalized Models for Distributed Mobile Services
    Akanksha Atrey, Prashant Shenoy, David Jensen
    IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2021.

  8. GIQ 2021 Exploring E-petitioning and media: The case of #BringBackOurGirls
    Teresa M. Harrison, Catherine Dumas, Nic DePaula, Tim Fake, Will May, Akanksha Atrey, Jooyeon Lee, Lokesh Rishi, S.S. Ravi
    Government Information Quarterly 2021.

  9. IEEE IoT-J 2020 New Frontiers in IoT: Networking, Systems, Reliability, and Security Challenges
    Saurabh Bagchi, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Ramesh Govindan, Prashant Shenoy, Akanksha Atrey, Pradipta Ghosh, Ran Xu
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2020.

  10. ICLR 2020 Exploratory Not Explanatory: Counterfactual Analysis of Saliency Maps for Deep Reinforcement Learning
    Akanksha Atrey, Kaleigh Clary, David Jensen
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2020.

  11. SDM 2019 Identifying When Effect Restoration Will Improve Estimates of Causal Effect
    Hüseyin Oktay, Akanksha Atrey, David Jensen
    SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2019.

  12. NeurIPS Workshop 2018 Generalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning
    Sam Witty, Jun Ki Lee, Emma Tosch, Akanksha Atrey, Michael Littman, David Jensen
    Critiquing and Correcting Trends in Machine Learning Workshop at NeurIPS 2018.

  13. ACM MM 2017 Do Diverse Social Interactions Make Us Smile More Often? Studying Smiles and Diversity Via Social Media Photos
    Vivek K. Singh, Akanksha Atrey, Saket Hegde
    ACM Multimedia (ACMMM) 2017.

  14. ICWSM 2017 Towards Measuring Fine-Grained Diversity Using Social Media Photographs
    Vivek K. Singh, Saket Hegde, Akanksha Atrey
    International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) 2017.

  15. dg.o 2017 E-Petitioning and Online Media: The Case of# BringBackOurGirls
    Teresa M. Harrison, Catherine Dumas, Nic DePaula, Tim Fake, Will May, Akanksha Atrey, Jooyeon Lee, Lokesh Rishi, S.S. Ravi
    International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o) 2017. (Best paper award)

  16. dg.o 2016 E-petition Information Diffusion in Online Social Networks
    Catherine Dumas, Akanksha Atrey, Jooyeon Lee, Teresa M. Harrison, Tim Fake, Xiaoyi Zhao, S.S. Ravi
    International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o) 2016.