Recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2019) and Amazon Research Award (2022). Received the IEEE Big Data Security Senior Research Award in 2025, ACM SACMAT Test-of-Time Award in 2024. Won Best Paper Awards from ACM ASIACCS (2022), ACSAC (2020), IEEE ICC (2020), ACM SIGCSE (2018), and ACM CODASPY (2014). Also won the First Place Award in ACM SIGCOMM 2018 SRC.
Research Experience
Currently a Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University at Buffalo, SUNY. Research has been funded by NSF (SaTC, CNS, IIS, OAC, SOC, etc.), USDOT, VMware, Amazon, Google, Dell, etc.
Background
Research interests span security, networking, and machine learning. Published across a wide range of well-recognized conferences including S&P, CCS, USENIX Security, NDSS, SIGCOMM, NSDI, NeurIPS, ICML, EMNLP, CHI, and CSCW.