Associate Professor Department of Computer Science University of California, Davis Office: 3043 Kemper Hall Email | Scholar | Twitter
My research focuses on making the web private and secure.
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Caspar Bowden Runner-Up Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technolgoies
Taught a special topics course on online advertising and tracking in Spring 2024.
Our research contributed to a FTC trade regulation rule [ANPR P214504] [Comment]
ACM IMC 2023: Best Paper Award
ProperData Symposium 2023
Presented at Programmatic I/O [Slides] [Paper] [Project Website]
Presented at Beyond the FTC: The Future of Privacy Enforcement [Watch]
Chancellor's Fellowship
Co-chairing Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2024
Filed a comment to FTC's ANPR on Commercial Surveillance and Data Security
Co-chairing 7th Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro ’23) (co-located with IEEE S&P 2023)
Co-chairing Workshop on Measurements, Attacks, and Defenses for the Web (MADWeb) (co-located with NDSS 2023)
NSF grant on stateless tracking and browser fingerprinting
Blocking Tracking JavaScript at the Function Granularity ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2024.
PURL: Safe and Effective Sanitization of Link Decoration USENIX Security Symposium (Security), 2024.
Google's Chrome Antitrust Paradox Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law (JETLaw), 2024.
A Scientific Approach to Tech Accountability Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (JoLT), 2024.
Understanding Underground Incentivized Review Services ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2024.
Aragorn: A Privacy-Enhancing System for Mobile Cameras ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT/UbiComp), 2024.
The Inventory is Dark and Full of Misinformation: Understanding Ad Inventory Pooling in the Ad-Tech Supply Chain IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (“Oakland”), 2024.