Research

Our lab works on a broad variety of topics in computer security and privacy, ranging from studying and addressing security and privacy risks in existing technologies, to anticipating future risks in emerging technologies, using a range of methodologies including building systems, identifying vulnerabilities, conducting measurements, and studying human end users.

Please see individual people‘s pages for up-to-date details and publications. Or see below for links to webpages describing a sampling of our current and past projects:

• ADINT: Using Targeted Advertising for Personal Surveillance
• Augmented Reality, Computer Security, and Privacy
• Augury Using Data Memory-Dependent Prefetchers to Leak Data at Rest
• Automotive Embedded Systems Security
• Bad Ads: Problematic Content in Online Advertising
• Confidante: Usable Encrypted Email
• CovertBand: Activity Information Leakage using Music
• COVID-19-Related Research
• Computer Security and Privacy in DNA Sequencing
• Hertzbleed Attack
• Improving Computer Security Technologies for Journalist-Source Communications
• SeaGlass: Enabling City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection
• Studying Risks from Online Advertising
• Tracking Excavator: Uncovering Tracking in the Web’s Past
• TrackingObserver: A Browser-Based Web Tracking Detection Platform
• LayerCake: Application Embedding for Android
• ShareAR: Secure and Private AR Sharing Toolkit
• ShareMeNot: Protecting against tracking from third-party social media buttons
• Studying Risks from Online Advertising
• Vanish: Self-Destructing Digital Data