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 details and publications, or see below for links to webpages describing a subset of our current and past projects:
- ADINT: Using Targeted Advertising for Personal Surveillance
- Augmented Reality, Computer Security, and Privacy
- 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
- Vanish: Self-Destructing Digital Data