• Alisha Ukani
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I'm Alisha Ukani

I'm a CS PhD student at UC San Diego. I research web security and privacy from an empirical lens. My advisor is Alex Snoeren and I'm a member of the SysNet and CryptoSec groups.

I finished my undergrad degree in CS at Harvard in 2020. I conducted research with Eddie Kohler and James Mickens on stateful serverless computing and browser extension sandboxing.

Off campus, I served on the City of Cambridge's Open Data Review Board. I've also been a Research Intern at Google and a Software Engineering intern at Slack and Google.

I am supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the ARCS Foundation San Diego Fellowship.

You can contact me at aukani@ucsd.edu.

News

• 2024-02-19 - I will be serving on the IMC 2024 program committee
• 2024-01-23 - Our paper on detecting fingerprinting on login/sign-up pages was accepted to the Web Conference (WWW) 2024!

Publications

1. "The Double Edged Sword: Identifying Authentication Pages and their Fingerprinting Behavior," A. Senol*, A. Ukani*, D. Cutler, I. Bilogrevic, to appear at the Web Conference (WWW) 2024.
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2. "In the Line of Fire: Risks of DPI-triggered Data Collection," A. Mirian, A. Ukani, I. Foster, G. Akiwate, T. Halicioglu, C. Moore, A.C. Snoeren, G. Voelker, S. Savage, Proceedings of Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET) 2023.
3. "Measuring UID Smuggling in the Wild," A. Randall, P. Snyder, A. Ukani, A. Snoeren, G. Voelker, S. Savage, A. Schulman. Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2022.
4. "Locked-In during Lock-Down: Undergraduate Life on the Internet in a Pandemic," A. Ukani, A. Mirian, A. Snoeren, Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2021.
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*Indicates equal contributions