Zubair Shafiq

Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Davis
Office: 3043 Kemper Hall
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Research Interests

My research focuses on making the web private, secure, and safe.

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Recent Publications

• Big Help or Big Brother? Auditing Tracking, Profiling, and Personalization in Generative AI Assistants
  USENIX Security Symposium (Security), 2025.
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• From Voice to Ads: Auditing Commercial Smart Speakers for Targeted Advertising based on Voice Characteristics
  ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2025.
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• CookieGuard: Characterizing and Isolating the First-Party Cookie Jar
  ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2025.
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• FP-Inconsistent: Detecting Evasive Bots using Browser Fingerprint Inconsistencies
  ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2025.
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• FP-Rowhammer: DRAM-Based Device Fingerprinting
  ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2025.
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