I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the Computer Science Department, William and Mary. My research interest is Security & Privacy. My research advisor is Dr. Adwait Nadkarni. Currently, I am working on usable security and privacy in smart cities and smart homes.

News

2024

(September) Our paper, “We can’t change it overnight - Understanding Industry Perspectives on IoT Product Security Compliance and Certification,” has been accepted to the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2025! 🥂
(August) Attended USENIX Security Symposium 2024 and presented our paper ‘Belt and suspenders’ or ‘just red tape’?: Investigating Early Artifacts and User Perceptions of IoT App Security Certification! I also received the student travel grant from USENIX 2024!
(May-August) Worked in the Office of Recovery Services (ORS) at the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services this summer as a 2024 COVES Fellow!
(May) Attended IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2024 (in-person) and presented our poster! I also received student travel grant from IEEE S&P 2024!
(March) Presented poster at DMV workshop!
(March) Received International Student Opportunity Scholarship 2024!
(January) Received COVES Fellowship 2024!

(November) Two of our papers - “‘Belt and suspenders’ or ‘just red tape’?: Investigating Early Artifacts and User Perceptions of IoT App Security Certification” and “Understanding the Privacy Practices of Political Campaigns,” won the best poster award at WM CS Symposium!
(October) Our paper, Understanding the Privacy Practices of Political Campaigns: A Perspective from the 2020 US Election Websites has been accepted to the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2024! 🥂
(August) Our paper, ‘Belt and suspenders’ or ‘just red tape’?: Investigating Early Artifacts and User Perceptions of IoT App Security Certification has been accepted at the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium! 🥂
(July) Our paper, Helion: Enabling Natural Testing of Smart Homes, has been accepted to the Tool Demo Track at ESEC/FSE’23! 🥂
(March) I, with my loving husband Amit, became parents to a baby girl, named Agnika! 🤱

(October) Presented poster at the first WM CS Symposium!
(August) Attended 31st USENIX Security Symposium (in-person) and presented our poster!
(July) My poster on “Does Compliance Enforcement Work?: Evaluation of Certified Mobile-IoT Apps” has been accepted at the USENIX Security 2022!
(July) Received Diversity Grant from USENIX Security 2022!
(June) Serving as an International Peer Leader for new international students (Fall 2022) at William & Mary!
(May) Attended Capital-Area Colloquium on Trustworthy and Usable Security/Privacy (CATCUS/P) at the George Washington University!
(May) Attended 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (in-person) and presented our poster!
(April) My first poster on “Exploring User Perceptions and Expectations of Privacy in City-wide WiFi Services” has been accepted at the 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
(April) Attened the CCI Symposium 2022 and presented a poster!
(February) Got selected for 2022 CRA-WP Graduate Cohort for Women Workshop!

Attened ACM CCS 2021
Attended ACM CCS Individualized Cybersecurity Research Mentoring(iMentor) Workshop 2021 as a Student Mentee
Attended GREPSEC Workshop along with SOUPS and USENIX Security 2021
Got selected for the GREPSEC Workshop 2021
Attended IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2021
Received student registration grant for the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2021
Attended 2021 CRA-WP Graduate Cohort for Women Workshop
Received CSCI Incentive Fellowship from the Computer Science Department, William and Mary for good TA performance
Got accepted to Ph.D. Candidacy on January 2021

Attended ACM CCS Individualized Cybersecurity Research Mentoring(iMentor) Workshop 2020 as a Student Mentee
Attended SOUPS and USENIX Security 2020