I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Indiana University Bloomington, and an incoming Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
I received my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. My research interests are to discover and understand critical security issues in a large system through data-oriented security analysis, and then to design and develop innovative solutions to address these issues.
Recent Research Areas & Interests:
- Privacy compliance and enforcement: [NDSS'25-1],[NDSS'25-2],[CCS'24-1],[CCS'24-2],[SCORED'24],[Security'24],[Security'23-1], [Security'23-2], [SIGMETRICS'23],[Security'21-2]
- Secure machine learning systems: [Security'24-1],[CCS'24-3],[S&P'24], [CCS'23-2],[CCS'21],[S&P'19-1]
- Cyber Threat intelligence, including threat intelligence gathering and analysis: [NDSS'25-3] [NDSS'24],[Security'21-1],[NDSS'20],[Security'18],[CCS'16]; dark web monitoring: [NDSS'24], [JMIR'21], [Security'18]; threat artifacts (a.k.a., cybercrime) on the Web [CCS'23-3][NDSS'22][NDSS'18][S&P'16][WWW'16][ACSAC'16], Mobile systems [CCS'24-4],[S&P'22-2],[NDSS'21],[Security'19-1], Network systems [S&P19-2][S&P'17][CCS'16], DevOp platforms [S&P'22-1], and Ethereum [Security'21-1]
- NLP/ML-assisted vulnerability discovery [Security'22][CCS'20-3][CCS'20-2][CCS'20-1][Security'19-3][NDSS'19][CCS'17][CCS'15], assessment [Security'22][Security'19-2], and management [CCS'23-1]
Selected Awards and Honors:
- NSF CAREER Award
- Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award
- ACM CCS Best Paper Award Runner-up
- Meta Privacy-Enhancing Technology Research Award
- ISOC NDSS Distinguished Paper Award/Distinguished Artifact Award
- ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award, Runner-up
NEWS:
- (04/04/2025) Ece has successfully passed her PhD dissertation defense. Congratulations, Dr. Gumusel!
- (03/09/2025) Haoran has successfully passed his PhD dissertation defense. Congratulations, Dr. Lu!
- (02/26/2025) JBOMAudit has been awarded the NDSS 2025 Distinguished Artifact Award! Congratulations, team!
- (02/12/2025) Jian Cui and his team secured 2nd place in the Berkeley LLM Agents MOOC Hackathon 2024 (Safety Track) for their innovative LLM agent attack project. Congratulations!
- (11/11/2024) Malla has been selected as a Top 15 finalist in the 2024 CSAW Applied Research Competition.
- (06/26/2024) Yue Xiao's PhD dissertation has been selected as the winner of the 2024 Indiana University Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award. Congratulations, Yue, on this outstanding achievement!
- (06/05/2024) Thrilled to announce that Yue Qin, Yue Xiao and Zhengyi Li have successfully passed their PhD dissertation defenses this summer. Well done, doctors!
- (05/01/2024) Our paper ''Towards Privacy-Preserving Social-Media SDKs on Android" has been awarded all three artifact evaluation badges in the USENIX Security’24 Artifact Evaluation. Excellent!
- (04/15/2024 ) "Lorie in Cybersecurity Wonderland" has been chosen for exhibition at the Shanghai Illustration Art Festival, to be held at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Center.
- (03/05/2024) Honored to receive the NSF CAREER Award to support the research on privacy-accountable mobile software supply chain. Thanks NSF!
- (10/23/2023) Thrilled to announce that I was selected as a Luddy Faculty Fellow.
- (09/01/2023) I have taken the role of of General Co-Chair for ACM CCS 2024.
- (08/24/2023) Lalaine has been selected for showcasing in the 2023 NSA CAE-R Research Symposium.
- (06/30/2023) The proposal "Towards Safeguarding the Emerging Miniapp Paradigm in Mobile Super Apps" was awarded by NSF. Thanks NSF!
- (03/31/2023) Thrilled to announce that I received the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award for 2023.
- (01/13/2023) I will serve as ACSAC 2023 Artifacts Evaluation co-Chair. Please check out the Call for Paper Artifacts.