Hadi Askari currently is involved in 2 lines of research. The first is developing real-world interventions (for e.g bots on Twitter) to inform people whether their posts are compromising their privacy. The second is related to poisoning online Recommender systems that profile users based on privacy invasive tracking. PhD student advised by Zubair Shafiq….Continue Reading Hadi Askari
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Rong Ching Chang
Rong Ching Chang studies political social behaviors online. How people reveal their political leanings and how to protect them from revealing. Who become radicalized over time, the echo chambers and polarization phenomenal on a cross platform manner. PhD student advised by Zubair Shafiq….Continue Reading Rong Ching Chang
Yash Vekaria
Yash Vekaria‘s research interests include Security, Privacy and Machine Learning. His focus is towards making our web more secure and private with the use of ML-based techniques. He carries out web-based large-scale Internet measurements to study and improve the dynamics of web. PhD student advised by Zubair Shafiq….Continue Reading Yash Vekaria
Umar Iqbal
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…Continue Reading Umar Iqbal
Syed Mahbub Hafiz
Syed Mahbub Hafiz explored Private Information Retrieval (PIR), a Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography-based Technology, to turn it from a theoretical construct to a useful tool in the privacy practitioners toolkit….Continue Reading Syed Mahbub Hafiz