PhD student in Computer Science · UC San Diego
Advised by Stefan Savage and Geoffrey Voelker.
Sysnet · CryptoSec · Center for Networked Systems · Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity
Email: lastnamefirstname AT ucsd DOT edu
I study network security and Internet measurement, with interests in browser and network fingerprinting, online abuse, and Internet infrastructure. I build measurement and analysis methods to investigate messy real-world systems with incomplete or indirect evidence.
I study browser and network fingerprinting in the context of online abuse, including anti-detect browsers, residential proxies, and related infrastructure. My current work explores measurement and analysis techniques for understanding these systems at scale and improving practical abuse detection.
How can we measure phenomena in real-world systems when direct ground truth is incomplete, hidden, or expensive to obtain? I develop measurement and inference methods that combine indirect evidence, side channels, active measurements, and reconciliation across independent data sources.
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We develop and validate inference techniques for measuring current and historical U.S. federal court case sealing practices.
The techniques make scaled investigations of a secretive judicial process possible with free data and reveal previously hidden patterns with civil and magistrate judge cases.
We show how email-to-text gateways and messaging apps enable spoofing of arbitrary senders and injection of forged messages into existing conversations.
The attacks expose an end-to-end identity failure that emerges when independently designed messaging protocols and systems are connected together.
IEEE XplorePaperCVE-2025-46311UC San Diego NewsPhoneArenaConsumer Affairs
We measure blockchain RPC providers and found substantial differences in timeliness, missing records, and even internal inconsistency.
Applications implicitly trust RPC providers as faithful representations of the chain state; our measurements challenge that assumption.
Highest Honors and Sam Goldberg Colloquium Prize
RESTAssured uses symbolic execution to verify whether Express.js servers conform to their OpenAPI specifications.
It makes API specifications mechanically checkable against actual implementations, catching discrepancies that would otherwise be missed by traditional testing and fuzzing techniques.
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Co-Instructor · Williams College
A four-week course built around real projects from Williams Students Online, with Andrew Megalaa and Prof. Jeannie Albrecht.
Co-Instructor · The Free University Program (Williams Students Union)
A hands-on workshop on network, web, cryptography, and binary-exploitation challenges, with Garett Tok Ern Liang.
Distinguished Paper Award
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
For our paper Lost in Translation: Text Message Spoofing via Email.
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher
Honorable Mention
Featured in this CRA-E SPARC article.
Sam Goldberg Colloquium Prize
Williams College
For the best computer science thesis presentation.
I received a B.A. in Computer Science and Philosophy at Williams College, where I worked with Prof. Daniel Barowy on programming languages and formal methods.
Within philosophy, I am especially interested in epistemology and philosophy of science, and am drawn to the traditions of empiricism, skepticism, and pluralism in scientific methods and explanations. Some of my favorite philosophers include David Hume, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Bruno Latour.
I have played CTFs with Water Paddler and Team 0x194, focusing on cryptography and miscellaneous challenges.
I also take photographs from time to time, of landscapes, places, and moments that stand out to me.