February, 2024 I will participate in the 2024 Science Policy & Advocacy for Research
Competition (SPARC) series, conducted by the Universities Research Association (URA)!
December 18, 2023 Our paper, “Practical Integrity Validation in the Smart Home with
HomeEndorser” has been accepted to the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile
Networks (WiSec), 2024! [preprint]
December 6, 2023 My experiences at the CRA LiSPI workshop, and how the
workshop can potentially benefit other PhD students like me has been published in the CRA policy blog.
November 16-17, 2023 I participated in the CRA Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI) workshop as a student volunteer. The workshop is an excellent opportunity to learn about how science policy works at the federal level and how we can contribute as computer researchers.
October 27, 2023 Our paper, “Understanding the Privacy Practices of Political Campaigns”:”
A Perspective from the 2020 US Election Websites” has been accepted to the IEEE Symposium on Security and
Privacy 2024! [pdf]
October 10, 2023 Presented poster titled Expanding Computer Science Learning
Opportunities in K-12 Instruction in Virginia
Schools at VASEM Summit 2023!
October 10, 2023 Presented Poster titled Security and Privacy in the Smart Home
Ecosystem at VASEM Summit 2023!
August 30, 2023 End of COVES fellowship.
July 20, 2023 Our paper, "Helion":" Enabling Natural Testing of Smart Homes" has
been accepted to the tool demo
track at the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software
Engineering 2023! [pdf]
July 20, 2023 Our paper, "MASC":" A Tool for Mutation-based Evaluation of Static
Crypto-API
Misuse Detectors" has been accepted to the tool demo track at the ACM Joint European Software Engineering
Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering 2023! [pdf]
May 24, 2023: Started work as a COVES fellow at the Virginia Department of Education
(VDoE) on a project titled Expanding Computer Science Learning Opportunities in K-12 Instruction in
Virginia Schools.
April 17, 2023: Won the best poster award at the CCI Symposium 2023!
April 17, 2023: Presented a poster on the privacy practices of election campaign websites at
the CCI
Symposium
.
April 3, 2023: I have been selected as the 2023 Commonwealth of Virginia Engineering
and Science
(COVES) Policy Fellow!
Work begins at the end of May.
August 26, 2022: Our paper, Understanding IoT Security from a Market-Scale Perspective
has been accepted to the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2022!
August 12, 2022: Completed internship at IBM Research.
May 23, 2022: I started as a Security and Privacy Grad Intern at IBM Research.
March 15, 2022: Our paper, Smart Home Privacy Policies Demystified: A Study of
Availability, Content, and Coverage has been accepted for publication in USENIX'22!
October 21, 2021: I was part of the Which? Investigates podcast titled 'How hackable is your home?'! Listen to the episode here.
August 10, 2021: Our paper, Why Crypto-detectors Fail: A Systematic Evaluation of Cryptographic Misuse Detection Techniques has been accepted for publication at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2022! [pdf]
January 21, 2021: Our paper, Demo: Mutation-based Evaluation of Security-focused Static Analysis Tools for Android., has been accepted to the Tool Demo Track at ICSE'21! (ICSE'21 Demonstrations)
November 24, 2020: Our paper, Systematic Mutation-based Evaluation of the Soundness of Security-focused Android Static Analysis Techniques., has been accepted to the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security! ( TOPS)
July 2, 2020: Our paper, Security in Centralized Data Store-based Home Automation Platforms: A Systematic Analysis of Nest and Hue, has been accepted to the ACM Transactions on Cyber Physical Systems, special issue on Security and Privacy for Connected CPS (TCPS)!
January 15, 2020: Our paper titled 'Towards a Natural Perspective of Smart Homes for Practical Security and Safety Analyses' has been accepted for publication at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2020!
March 26, 2019: Our paper 'A Study of Data Store-based Home Automation' has won the best paper award in CODASPY'19!
December 28, 2018: Our recent work on smart home security got covered in the press!
November 27, 2018: Our paper titled 'A Study of Data Store-based Home Automation' got accepted to 9th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy! [pdf]