University of California, Santa Barbara — PhD, Computer Science
2022 – presentAdvisors: Prof. Giovanni Vigna and Prof. Christopher Kruegel (SecLab).
About Me
Security and privacy researcher. PhD candidate at UC Santa Barbara, working on the security of shared virtual environments, ML security, and program analysis.
Education
University of Virginia — B.A., Computer Science & Statistics
2017 – 2021Research advisors: Prof. Yuan Tian, Prof. Seongkook Heo, Prof. David Evans.
Publications
Peer-reviewed work at USENIX Security, NDSS, CHI, and NeurIPS. Full list →
Awards
Honorable Mention Award, ACM CHI 2025
2025For Your Hands Can Tell: Detecting Perception Manipulation in VR Using Hand Movement.
Grants & allocations
NSF ACCESS Research Computing Allocation
2026 – 2027“Shellshock: Exploring and Detecting Malicious Avatars in Social VR” — 200,000 ACCESS credits.
Co-PI; proposal author and project lead. PI: Giovanni Vigna.
NAIRR Pilot, AI-Related Research Allocation
2024 – 2025“Measuring and Detecting Harassment in Shared Virtual Reality” — $20,000 in cloud credits via CloudBank.
Project Administrator; proposal author and project lead. PI: Giovanni Vigna.
Teaching
Teaching Assistant, CS 177 — Introduction to Computer Security
Spring 2024UC Santa Barbara.
Service
Reviewer, ACM CHI Late-Breaking Work
2025Skills
- Research methods — experimental design, IRB user studies, dataset creation, statistical analysis
- Security — side-channel analysis, program analysis, code property graphs, ML security, privacy & GDPR compliance
- Machine learning — PyTorch, TensorFlow, model evaluation, prompt engineering
- AR/VR — Unity application prototyping, head and body movement analysis
- Languages — Python, C#, C++, R, SQL, Java