News

Dissertation Defense
Apr. 2026
I successfully defended my dissertation, Auditing and Improving Children's Online Privacy and Safety. Thank you to my committee, Profs. Athina Markopoulou, Scott Jordan, and Habiba Farrukh.

VR ProfiLens Paper Accepted to USEC 2026
Dec. 2025
Our paper "VR ProfiLens: User Profiling Risks in Consumer Virtual Reality Apps" was accepted for publication at the Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) 2026, co-located with the NDSS Symposium 2026.

Developed GenAI Guide for Computer Science Educators
Sept. 2025
I was selected for the Division of Teaching Excellence & Innovation's (DTEI) Summer Graduate Scholars Fellowship Program. As the deliverable for this fellowship, I developed a GenAI Guide for CS Educators to assist UCI instructors, including guidance on GenAI for course development and assessment as well as on academic integrity and AI literacy.

UCI ICS Steckler Family Endowed Fellowship Recipient
July 2025
I was selected to receive the UCI ICS Steckler Family Endowed Fellowship for 2025-2026.

Presented to Comcast Security and Privacy Research Group
June 2025
I was invited to present a talk about my research to the Comcast Cybersecurity and Privacy Research group.

DTEI Graduate Scholars Fellowship
May 2025
I was selected for the Division of Teaching Excellence & Innovation's (DTEI) Summer Graduate Scholars Fellowship Program.

DiffAudit Receives ACM IMC 2024 Best Student Paper Award
Nov. 2024
Our paper DiffAudit: Auditing Privacy Practices of Online Services for Children and Adolescents has been awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the 2024 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC).

ARCS Scholar Award
Aug. 2024
I have been selected as a 2024-2025 ARCS Scholar. Thank you to the ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Foundation and UCI Graduate Division for this honor.

DiffAudit Accepted to ACM IMC 2024
July 2024
Our work, DiffAudit: Auditing Privacy Practices of Online Services for Children and Adolescents, has been accepted for publication in ACM IMC 2024.

DiffAudit Accepted to PrivaCI 2024
July 2024
Our work, DiffAudit: Auditing Privacy Practices of Online Services for Children and Adolescents, has been accepted for presentation at the 6th Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity (PrivaCI).

ProperData Summer Program on Privacy, AI & IoT
June 2024
I was an instructor for the ProperData 2024 Summer Program on Privacy, IoT & AI for high school students, in which the students built customized voice assistants using Raspberry Pi, ChatGPT, and Python programming.

GEECS Annual Technology Showcase Poster Session Winner
June 2024
I presented a research poster about our work, DiffAudit: Auditing Privacy Practices of Online Services for Children and Adolescents, at the 2024 Society of Graduate Electrical Engineers & Computer Scientists (GEECS) Technology Showcase at UCI and won 1st place in the Software/Algorithms track.

NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Event Panelist
Apr. 2024
I was invited to attend and speak on a panel at the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) Aspirations in Computing Awards (AiC) event, hosted by the UCI ICS Office of Outreach, Access and Inclusion (OAI). See articles posted about the event by the WiCyS student chapter and ICS.

Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) Conference Scholarship
Apr. 2024
I recieved a student scholarship to attend the WiCyS 2024 Conference in Nashville, TN. See the WiCyS student chapter website for details.

GREPSEC VI Workshop, co-located with USENIX Security '23
Aug. 2023
I received a scholarship to attend the GREPSEC VI Workshop, co-located with USENIX Security '23, in Anaheim, CA.

CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women
Apr. 2023
I was invited to attend the CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women in San Francisco, CA.

Awarded NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
Mar. 2023
I was awarded an Honorable Mention for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) competition.

Privacy Engineering Internship at Common Sense Media
Aug. 2022
I completed my Privacy Engineering Internship at Common Sense Media, during which I worked with the Privacy Program to advance their internal privacy policy evaluation machine learning system, consulted on and contributed to a research report about privacy of virtual reality, and trained to become a privacy policy evaluator.