News

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

Computer Security Top-Tier Venues: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)_T1, USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX)_T1, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)_T1, and ISOC Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS)_T1
Software Engineering Top-Tier Venues: ISOC Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (ICSE)_T1, European Software Engineering Conference/ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)_T1, and Automated Software Engineering Conference (ASE)_T1
Premier Journals: ACM Transactions on Privacy & Security (TOPS)_Tj, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)_Tj

Awards

(05/2025) [🏆 Stephen K Park Graduate Research Award] from William & Mary!
(05/2024) [🏆 Distinguished Paper] award from the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)_T1
(04/2024) [🏆 International Student Achievement Award] from William & Mary!
(11/2023) [🏆 Best-Poster] At the William & Mary CS Symposium 2023!
(04/2022) [Travel-Award] from the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)_T1
(03/2022) [Travel-Award] from the ISOC Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS)_T1
(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

Publications

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

(03/2025) “Free WiFi is not ultimately free”: Privacy Perceptions of Users in the US regarding City-wide WiFi Services has been accepted at the 25th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS/PoPETS 2025)!
(03/2025) “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 at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)_T1
(08/2023) “Belt and suspenders” or “just red tape”?: Investigating Early Artifacts and User Perceptions of IoT App Security Certification has been accepted at the USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX)_T1
(07/2023) “False negative - that one is going to kill you”: Understanding Industry Perspectives of Static Analysis based Security Testing* has been accepted at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)_T1
(07/2023) MASC: A Tool for Mutation-based Evaluation of Static Crypto-API Misuse Detectors has been accepted to the tool demo track at the European Software Engineering Conference/ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)_T1
(08/2021) Why Crypto-detectors Fail: A Systematic Evaluation of Cryptographic Misuse Detection Techniques accepted for publication at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)_T1
(01/2021) μSE: Mutation-based Evaluation of Security-focused Static Analysis Tools for Android accepted at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)_T1
(11/2020) Systematic Mutation-based Evaluation of the Soundness of Security-focused Android Static Analysis Techniques accepted at the ACM Transactions on Privacy & Security (TOPS)_Tj

Research Talk/Invited Lecture

(10/2022) [Cybersecurity-Policy] at the Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS), Virginia Meeting, presided by Delegate C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. to suggest Cybersecurity Policies for the Commonwealth of Virginia
(11/2021) [Invited Talk-Stamford] At Stamford University, Bangladesh on Higher Studies: Getting started from Undergrad
(10/2021) [Invited Talk-GMU] Software Engineering Seminar Series at George Mason University on “Why Crypto-detectors Fail: A Systematic Evaluation of Cryptographic Misuse Detection Techniques”
(01/2024) [ESSEC] Presented a poster on False Negatives Kill at the ESSEC’24 at W&M!
(12/2023) [Doctoral Symposium-ESEC/FSE] Presented Systematically Evaluating Static Analysis-Based Security Testing Tools - The Gaps within Design and Practice at the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) 2023!
(12/2023) [Paper-ESEC/FSE] Presented MASC: A Tool for Mutation-based Evaluation of Static Crypto-API Misuse Detectors at the tool demo track at the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) 2023!
(05/2022) [Paper-Talk-S&P] Why Crypto-detectors Fail: A Systematic Evaluation of Cryptographic Misuse Detection Techniques
(11/2021) [Invited Lecture-W&M] Why Crypto-detectors Fail at Mobile Applications Security (CSci 445) course at William & Mary
(07/2020) [Invited Talk] Higher Studies and Research at Daffodil International University, Bangladesh

Posters

(02/2024) [Poster-NDSS] accepted at the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2024!
(02/2022) [Poster-NDSS] accepted at the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2022!