News

This section covers the noteworthy news specifically about me, such as awards, publications and research related outreach activities.

Publications

Computer Security Top-Tier Venues
S&P IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy , USENIX USENIX Security Symposium , CCS ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security , and NDSS ISOC Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium
Software Engineering Top-Tier Venues
ICSE International Conference on Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE European Software Engineering Conference/ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, and ASE Automated Software Engineering Conference
Premier Journals
TOPS ACM Transactions on Privacy & Security, TOSEM ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

(Check Publications page for accessing paper-specific bibliography, pre-print, artifact, and more!)

  • (02/2026) TOPS Mutation-Based Evaluation of Cryptographic API Misuse Detectors has been accepted!
  • (03/2025)Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS/PoPETS 2025) - “Free WiFi is not ultimately free”: Privacy Perceptions of Users in the US regarding City-wide WiFi Services has been accepted!
  • (03/2025) S&P “We can’t allow IoT vendors to pass off all such liability to the consumer” - Investigating the U.S. Legal Perspectives on Liability for IoT Product Security has been accepted!
  • (08/2023) USENIX “Belt and suspenders” or “just red tape”?: Investigating Early Artifacts and User Perceptions of IoT App Security Certification has been accepted!
  • (07/2023) S&P “False negative - that one is going to kill you”: Understanding Industry Perspectives of Static Analysis based Security Testing has been accepted!
  • (07/2023) ESEC/FSE MASC: A Tool for Mutation-based Evaluation of Static Crypto-API Misuse Detectors has been accepted to the tool demo track!
  • (07/2023) S&P Why Crypto-detectors Fail: A Systematic Evaluation of Cryptographic Misuse Detection Techniques accepted!
  • (01/2021) S&P μSE: Mutation-based Evaluation of Security-focused Static Analysis Tools for Android accepted!
  • (11/2020) TOPS Systematic Mutation-based Evaluation of the Soundness of Security-focused Android Static Analysis Techniques accepted!

Awards

  • (05/2025)[🏆 Stephen K Park Graduate Research Award] of the Year from William & Mary for my Dissertation!
  • (05/2024)🏆 [Distinguished Paper] S&P for the paper “‘False negative - that one is going to kill you’ - Understanding Industry Perspectives of Static Analysis based Security Testing”
  • (04/2024)[🏆 International Student Achievement Award] from William & Mary!
  • (11/2023)[🏆 Best-Poster] At the William & Mary CS Symposium 2023!
  • (04/2022) S&P [Travel-Award]
  • (03/2022) NDSS [Travel-Award]
  • (04/2022)[Policy-Fellowship] To work as a 2022 Commonwealth of Virginia Engineering and Science (COVES) Fellow at the Joint Commission on Technology and Science, Virginia!
  • (06/2021)[Fellowship] Coastal Virginia Center for Cyber Innovation - COVA CCI - Cybersecurity Dissertation Fellowship!
  • (07/2019)[Fellowship] Continuation of Graduate Studies and Research Fellowship Award of William & Mary
  • (08/2018)[Fellowship] Graduate Studies and Research Fellowship of William & Mary - sponsored by Arts and Sciences Graduate Studies Advisory Board

Invited Talks/Panels

Posters

  • (02/2024) NDSS [Poster] for “False negative - that one is going to kill you” - Understanding Industry Perspectives of Static Analysis based Security Testing accepted!
  • (01/2024)[ESSEC] Poster False Negatives Kill accepted at the ESSEC’24 at W&M!
  • (02/2022) NDSS [Poster] for Why Crypto-detectors Fail: A Systematic Evaluation of Cryptographic Misuse Detection Techniques accepted!

Activities/Others

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