Scholar
Federico Cifuentes-Urtubey
Google Scholar ID: VxDw_mQAAAAJ
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Citations & Impact
Citations
4
H-index
1
i10-index
0
Publications
13
Co-authors
3
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- MobiCom '24 Best Poster Award; IDEA Institute's GIANT Student Diversity Leadership Award; Recognized as Outstanding Teaching Assistant; Will present a demo on deanonymizing Wi-Fi device identities in public networks at MobiSys '25; Presenting a paper on Empowering Hispanic Engineers with Hybrid Mentorship at CoNECD '25; Presented research on passive Wi-Fi device tracking at S3 Workshop @ MobiCom'23.
Research Experience
- Mobius Research Group: Advisor Robin Kravets, working on Masking Wi-Fi Discovery and Communication project to reduce privacy intrusion in wireless device traffic through MAC randomization; Passive Device Identification with Timing Analysis: Preliminary results on identifying unique devices using an attack exploiting temporal patterns on packet bursts during Wi-Fi network discovery; Defending Wi-Fi Network Discovery from Time Correlation Tracking: Designed MAC address randomization with randomized transmission times as a defense. Personal projects include Measuring TLS 1.3 in Email Services, DR. QUIC, and QUIC Performance in Enterprise Networking.
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advised by Robin Kravets; B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), under the guidance of Anupam Joshi and Ed Zieglar.
Background
- Research interests include privacy in wireless systems, network security, and network infrastructure design and analysis. During his Ph.D., he interned at Apple, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, and Sandia National Labs. He served as the Graduate Ambassador of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Chapter on campus for four years.
Miscellany
- On the job market; Moderated CMD-IT webinar on Academic Journey to Leadership; Awarded a scholarship as part of the Sloan Foundation's University Centers for Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM) and the GEM Associate Fellowship.
