I'm Alisha Ukani

I'm a fifth-year CS PhD candidate at UC San Diego. My research focuses on Internet measurement and security/privacy, focusing on how technology interacts with society and governments. My advisor is Alex Snoeren.

I'm supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and previously, the ARCS Foundation San Diego Fellowship. I also serve as the Co-President of UCSD's Graduate Women in Computing (GradWIC) group.

You can contact me at aukani@ucsd.edu.

News

  • 2024-09-12 - I passed my thesis proposal and am now a PhD candidate
  • 2024-06-07 - I am very grateful to receive UCSD CSE's Award for Service/Leadership for my work as Co-President of GradWIC!
  • 2024-02-19 - I will be serving on the IMC 2024 program committee

Publications

The Double Edged Sword: Identifying Authentication Pages and their Fingerprinting Behavior

A. Senol*, A. Ukani*, D. Cutler, I. Bilogrevic
The Web Conference (WWW) 2024
[Paper] [Promo video] [Slides]

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
Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET) 2023
[Paper]

Measuring UID Smuggling in the Wild

A. Randall, P. Snyder, A. Ukani, A. Snoeren, G. Voelker, S. Savage, A. Schulman
Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2022
[Paper]

Locked-In during Lock-Down: Undergraduate Life on the Internet in a Pandemic

A. Ukani, A. Mirian, A. Snoeren
Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2021
[Paper] [Video]

*Indicates equal contributions

Select Awards

  • UCSD CSE Award for Service/Leadership (2024)
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2022)
  • ARCS Foundation San Diego Fellowship (2021-2024)
  • UCSD CSE Award for Contributions to Diversity (2022)

Select Talks

"The Double Edged Sword: Identifying Authentication Pages and their Fingerprinting Behavior"

  • University of Maryland (September 2024)
  • UCSD CNS Research Review (May 2024)
  • MIT PDOS Group (March 2024)
  • Northeastern University (March 2024)
  • Boston University Security Seminar (March 2024)

"Locked-In during Lock-Down: Undergraduate Life on the Internet in a Pandemic"

  • UCSD CSE Research Open House (March 2022)
  • Stanford Empirical Security Research Group (November 2021)
  • Google Seminar (September 2021)
  • Google PhD Intern Research Conference (July 2021)
  • MIT Security Seminar (May 2021)