Umar Iqbal graduated in 2021 and completed a two year postdoc at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He is now an Assistant Professor at the Washington University in St. Louis. He researches web privacy and security with an aim to bring more transparency and control to the users. Specifically, he uses internet measurement techniques to audit and quantify malicious practices on the web and leverage ML-based techniques to build privacy-enhancing tools that protect users against malicious practices. He was advised by Zubair Shafiq.
Umar Iqbal
