- Aug 14, 2024
- Attending and presenting my paper on the CalcuLatency system at the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium 2024, in Philadelphia, PA facilitated by their travel grant.
- Jul 26, 2024
- Co-authored a blog post "Scam Attacks Taking Advantage of the Popularity of the Generative AI Wave"
- Jul 15, 2024
- Our paper on the Network Responses to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine in 2022 won the FOCI'24 Best Practical Award 🏆
- Oct 02, 2023
- Started my new position as a Senior Staff Researcher at Palo Alto Networks!
- Sep 21, 2023
- Successfully defended my thesis titled "Investigating the VPN Ecosystem Through the Lens of Security, Privacy, and Usability" and officially, #PhDone!
- Aug 09, 2023
- Attending and presenting my paper on VPN users and co-presenting our paper on network changes in Russia after their invasion of Ukraine in 2022 at the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium 2023, in Anaheim, CA.
- Jul 10, 2023
- Attending FOCI'23 and the PET Symposium 2023 in Lausanne, Switzerland, facilitated by their travel stipend.
- Mar 27, 2023
- 🏆 I was awarded the Barbour Scholarship for the 2023-2024 academic year by the University of Michigan, as part of the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship. It supports students working on dissertations that are "unusually creative, ambitious, and impactful".
- Mar 19, 2023
- I was awarded the Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement 🏆 by the College of Engineering at UMich. This award is presented to an outstanding graduate student in each degree program at the College; the criteria considered include the student’s active participation in research, leadership, and academic performance.
- Feb 02, 2023
- I completed my thesis proposal!
- Feb 02, 2023
- Guest panelist at UMich EECS 588 for a class on usable security, in Ann Arbor, MI.
- Jan 23, 2023
- Attending the Open Tech Fund summit in Austin, TX.
- Dec 6, 2022
- Attending ACM CoNEXT'22 in Rome, Italy.
- Nov 12, 2022
- Our NDSS'22 VPNalyzer paper won First Place at the CSAW '22 Applied Research Competition. 🏆
- Oct 24, 2022
- Got an honorable mention for our work in the 2022 M-Lab Hackathon in Nice, France.
- Oct 24, 2022
- Attending ACM IMC 2022 in Nice, France, facilitated by their student travel grant.
- Sep 22, 2022
- Gave an invited talk about my research paper, "All of them claim to be the best": A multi-perspective study of VPN users and VPN providers at the September'22 VPN Community Gathering organized by IFF.
- Aug 10, 2022
- Our paper won the First Prize in the 2022 Internet Defense Prize competition 🏆
- Aug 10, 2022
- Our paper on OpenVPN Fingerprinting won the USENIX'22 Distinguished Paper Award 🏆
- Aug 9, 2022
- Attending USENIX Security Symposium 2022 in Boston, MA
- Jun 1, 2022
- Starting my research internship at Brave Research
- May 26, 2022
- Attending and presenting a talk The IEEE SPW 6th Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro '22), colocated with IEEE S&P'22
- Apr 28, 2022
- Presenting a 45-minute talk about the experimentation and system design of VPNalyzer at the LASER Workshop, colocated with NDSS'22
- Apr 24, 2022
- Attending and presenting my paper on VPNalyzer at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2022, in San Diego, CA. First in-person talk in over 2 years!
- Apr 7, 2022
- Giving a talk about my research at EECS 183, at a session (supported by the Renew CS grant) aimed at encouraging women and non-binary students to major in CS
- Dec 7, 2021
- Insights I gained through my work with VPNalyzer was quoted in two articles by Consumer Reports, written by Yael Grauer. Read them here: Should You Use a VPN?, and VPN Testing Reveals Poor Privacy and Security Practices, Hyperbolic Claims.
- Dec 7, 2021
- My research, VPNalyzer, which has been over two years in the making, was featured in two Consumer Reports articles and a white paper released today! 🎉
- Nov 3, 2021
- Our paper Throttling Twitter: An Emerging Censorship Technique in Russia was recognized as the Highest Scoring Short Paper at IMC'21. 🏆
- Nov 2, 2021
- Attending ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2021 online.
- Oct 28, 2021
- Gave an invited talk at Brave Research about my work.
- Oct 23, 2021
- Our work on Russia’s emerging censorship technique of throttling was highlighted in the front page of New York Times. 🎉
- Aug 11, 2021
- Attending USENIX Security '21 online.
- Apr 23, 2021
- Selected to participate in the CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women 2021 organized by the Computing Research Association.
- Apr 20, 2021
- Serving as panelist on an Explore Computer Science Research program organized by Girls Encoded at the University of Michigan.
- Apr 10, 2021
- Served two weekend sessions as an activity leader for the FEMMES Explore Event organized by CSEG in collaboration with FEMMES at the University of Michigan. This involved (virtually) interacting with and teaching middle-school students about CS, and helping them design an algorithm for a computer game.
- Apr 6, 2021
- Read our report about our recent work on the throttling of Twitter in Russia
- Apr 1, 2021
- Serving on the Program Committee for the ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI '21) co-located with SIGCOMM 2021.
- Mar 18, 2021
- Served as a panelist alongside my advisor at the Consumer Reports Virtual Workshop: Exploring VPNs with almost 1500 users in attendance.
- Mar 1, 2021
- 📣 Calling all VPN Users: Please participate in our VPN user survey now!!📣 Proud to release my first user study in collaboration with Consumer Reports Digital Lab
- Nov 6, 2020
- My paper Decentralized Control: A Case Study of Russia was selected as a finalist and was among the Top 10 papers for the US-Canada region at the CSAW '20 Applied Research Competition.
- Oct 27, 2020
- Attending ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) '20 online, special shout out to them for having a registration fee waiver.
- Aug 12, 2020
- Gave an invited talk about my work on decentralized control and its broader implications at the Next Generation Democracy Cafe online.
- Aug 12, 2020
- Attending USENIX Security '20 online, facilitated by their student grant.
- Aug 11, 2020
- Serving as the student organizer for the 10th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI '20)
- Aug 10, 2020
- Read our report about my recent work on the geoblocking of Hong Kong and Chinese IPs by US government and military sites
- Jun 24, 2020
- I'm now a PhD Candidate! 🎉
- Feb 24, 2020
- Attending and presenting my paper at Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2020 facilitated by their travel grant, in San Diego, CA
- Nov 6, 2019
- Read our report about my recent work on decentralized control
- Sep 3, 2019
- Starting my position as treasurer of the student group ECSEL+
- Jul 31, 2019
- Attending Citizen Lab Summer Institute 2019 facilitated by their travel grant, in Toronto, Canada
- May 24, 2019
- Attending and giving a PhD Lightning talk at Mozilla Security Research Summit in San Francisco, CA
- May 20, 2019
- Attending IEEE S&P facilitated by their student travel grant, in San Francisco, CA
- May 18, 2019
- Attending IEEE GREPSEC Workshop facilitated by their travel grant, in San Francisco, CA
- Apr 13, 2019
- Attending the Midwest Security Workshop 7 at UChicago, in Chicago, IL
- Nov 5, 2018
- Presented at the Research Process Workshop about the research done in our Ensafi Lab, and served as a panelist for reasearch done in the software lab for an event organized by Girls Encoded.
- Aug 30, 2018
- Gave a 30-minute presentation at the CS Kickstart event about research that my colleagues and I do at the Ensafi Lab. My first presentation as a PhD student! 🎉
- Aug 12, 2018
- Attending USENIX FOCI 2018, in Baltimore, MD
- Jun 28, 2018
- Joined Ensafi Lab!
