About Me

Hello! I am a computer security and privacy researcher, and I study security, privacy, and safety harms that people experience on online platforms.

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Massive Data Institute at Georgetown University, where I work with Professor Elissa Redmiles. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University CyLab, where I was advised by Professor Lujo Bauer. I graduated with a PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Washington, where I was advised by Professor Franzi Roesner, and I was part of the Security and Privacy Lab.

Some research topics I have worked on include:

• Deceptive online advertising
• Human factors for cybersecurity in industrial controls systems
• Interpersonal security & privacy threats in smart homes
• Encrypted email for lawyers and journalists

I have released several tools and datasets from my research. I currently develop and maintain adscraper, a tool for scraping ads from the web. Some datasets I collected using adscraper include deceptive political ads from the 2020 elections and what ads people like and dislike. I also built a browser extension for collecting ads from users in field experiments. Outside of ad measurement tools, I also built a prototype for proximity-based access controls in smart homes, and a prototype encrypted email client powered by Keybase.