Publications

No Privacy for Privates: How Military Communities Experience and Perceive the Privacy Risks of Military-Marketed Mobile Apps

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Experience

Graduate Research Assistant

  • Developed a contention-based timing side-channel for mobile NPUs
  • Investigated the privacy risks of military-marketed mobile apps
  • Produced Android userspace exploits for DARPA's Intelligent Generation of Tools for Security (INGOTS) program

Cybersecurity Research Intern

  • Implemented novel sensor fusion capabilities on Android phones by leveraging Bayesian inference networks

Cybersecurity Research Intern

  • Built an Android utility leveraging kernel tracing and IPC introspection to trace messages between apps, telephony, the Radio Interface Layer (RIL), and baseband firmware

Cybersecurity Research Intern

  • Trained a multitask deep learning recommender system to predict mobile app usage based on user demographics
  • Worked as part of a team to repurpose mobile phone communication channels to enable secure communications

Cybersecurity Research Intern

  • Built a Python tool to schedule and generate Android automations that mimic human activity
  • Worked as part of a team to repurpose mobile phone communication channels to enable secure communications

Cybersecurity Research Intern

  • Reverse engineered Windows applications
  • Windows kernel debugging

Software Engineering Intern

  • Worked as part of a team to prototype a new feature critical to supporting DeFi apps on the Ethereum blockchain