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Career

· Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU Center for Cyber Security2025–
· Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CSP, CCS, NYU Center for Data Science2025–
· Assistant Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Center for Urban Science + Progress, NYU mLab2025–
· Faculty (various departments), NYU Tandon School of Engineering2025–

Publications (30)

Tracking Ransomware End-to-end
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · 2018
206
cited
Keeping the Smart Home Private with Smart(er) IoT Traffic Shaping
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies · 2018
171
cited
High-fidelity switch models for software-defined network emulation
HotSDN '13 · 2013
145
cited
Framing Dependencies Introduced by Underground Commoditization
Workshop on the Economics of Information Security · 2015
121
cited
IoT Inspector
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies · 2019
115
cited
Botcoin: Monetizing Stolen Cycles
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium · 2014
93
cited
Stressing Out: Bitcoin "Stress Testing"
Financial Cryptography Workshops · 2016
83
cited
Watching You Watch: The Tracking Ecosystem of Over-the-Top TV Streaming Devices
Conference on Computer and Communications Security · 2019
82
cited
Backpage and Bitcoin: Uncovering Human Traffickers
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining · 2017
75
cited
“It would probably turn into a social faux-pas”: Users’ and Bystanders’ Preferences of Privacy Awareness Mechanisms in Smart Homes
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2022
57
cited
Web-based Attacks to Discover and Control Local IoT Devices
IoT S&P@SIGCOMM · 2018
52
cited
Alexa, Who Am I Speaking To?: Understanding Users’ Ability to Identify Third-Party Apps on Amazon Alexa
ACM Trans. Internet Techn. · 2019
32
cited
SkillBot: Identifying Risky Content for Children in Alexa Skills
ACM Trans. Internet Techn. · 2021
27
cited
Managing Distributed Applications Using Gush
Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities · 2010
18
cited
Uncovering Privacy and Security Challenges In K-12 Schools
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2023
17
cited
Pinning Down Abuse on Google Maps
The Web Conference · 2017
16
cited
Exploring Tenants' Preferences of Privacy Negotiation in Airbnb
USENIX Security Symposium · 2023
15
cited
Profit-Driven Abuses of Virtual Currencies
2013
7
cited
Estimating Profitability of Alternative Cryptocurrencies (Short Paper)
Financial Cryptography · 2018
4
cited
Selling a Single Item with Negative Externalities
The Web Conference · 2019
4
cited
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