I'm Alisha Ukani
I'm a CS PhD student at UC San Diego. I research the security and performance of complex systems. 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 [at] ucsd (dot) edu.
News
- 2022-06-13 - Started a research internship at Google working to detect browser fingerprinting on the Privacy Sandbox team
- 2022-04-04 - Awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- 2022-03-30 - Giving a talk at the UCSD CSE Research Open House - come say hi!
- 2021-11-03 - Presenting my paper "Locked-In During Lock-Down: Undergraduate Life on the Internet in a Pandemic" at IMC
Publications
- 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), Virtual, November
2021.
24% acceptance rate
[Paper] [Video]
Talks
- "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)
- "Third Eye: A Browser Extension Attack to Spy from Webcams and Microphones"
- Harvard SpeakSEAS (April 2019)