Scholar
Umar Iqbal
Google Scholar ID: K1GBN0MAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Citations & Impact
Citations
916
H-index
13
i10-index
14
Publications
20
Co-authors
12
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Yuhao is nominated as a ML and Systems Rising Star 2025; Yuhao presented research on execution isolation in agentic systems at MSR; Discussed Independent Auditing of Smart Speaker Data Usage Practices at Comcast; Received the Caspar Bowden Runner-Up Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2024.
Research Experience
- Attended Mozilla Security Research Summit 2025; Led the content team to author the 2024 Web Almanac Privacy Chapter; Participated in a roundtable on online surveillance with the FTC; Reviewing for USENIX Security '25 and ACM IMC '25.
Background
- Research interests: Computer security and privacy. Specifically, focusing on bringing transparency and control in computing systems to empower users, platforms, and regulators to improve user privacy and security. Current focus areas include the web (e.g., online tracking issues), emerging technologies (e.g., issues in agentic systems and IoT), and technology policy (e.g., auditing under CCPA and GDPR). Position: Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.
Miscellany
- Contact: umar.iqbal@wustl.edu; Has Github, Twitter, and Google Scholar accounts.
