UCI ICS Steckler Family Endowed Fellowship Recipient
July 2025
I was selected to receive the ICS Steckler Family Endowed Fellowship for 2025-2026! The focus of this fellowship is to support PhD students in UCI ICS whose research, teaching, and/or outreach and professional service activities reflect their commitment to promote computing to women.
Presented at Comcast Security and Privacy Research Group
June 2025
I was invited to present a talk about my children's privacy research to the Comcast Security and Privacy Research group. Thank you for inviting me to speak to this group!
DTEI Graduate Scholar Fellowship
May 2025
I was selected for the Division of Teaching Excellence & Innovation's (DTEI) Summer Graduate Scholars Fellowship Program, which focuses on campus-wide pedagogical change by both developing and improving existing courses through inclusive and equitable curriculum design. Thank you DTEI!
DiffAudit Receives ACM IMC 2024 Best Student Paper Award
November 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
August 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. I taught the labs on Intro to ChatGPT and ChatGPT Customization and Scripting with Python, and I also helped the students throughout the week as they developed their projects. Check out the video about the program here!
GEECS Annual Technology Showcase Poster Session Winner
June 2024
I presented a research poster at the 2024 Society of Graduate Electrical Engineers & Computer Scientists (GEECS) Technology Showcase at UCI and won 1st place in the Software/Algorithms track. My research poster was about my paper, "DiffAudit: Auditing Privacy Practices of Online Services for Children and Adolescents". Thank you to the GEECS group and EECS department!
NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Event Panelist
April 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). The goal of the NCWIT AiC program is to connect 9th-12th grade students, who identify as a women, non-binary, or gender-queer, with the resources, community, encouragement and guidance to pursue computing academically and professionally. Check out the articles posted about the event by the WiCyS student chapter and ICS.
Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) Conference Scholarship
April 2024
I recieved a student scholarship to attend the WiCyS 2024 Conference in Nashville, TN. See the WiCyS student chapter website for more info and photos!
ProperData 3rd Annual Symposium
September 2023
I attended the ProperData 3rd Annual Symposium at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. I presented a poster of my latest research and discussed research ideas with other ProperData graduate students, researchers, and faculty.
GREPSEC VI Workshop, co-located with USENIX Security '23
August 2023
I received a scholarship to attend the GREPSEC VI Workshop, co-located with USENIX Security '23, in Anaheim, CA, where I was able to attend talks and network with security and privacy researchers and graduate students.
Awarded M.S. in Computer Science
June 2023
I was awarded my M.S. in Computer Science degree from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine.
CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women
April 2023
I was invited to attend the CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women in San Francisco, CA, where I had the opportunity to hear from senior female computing-related researchers and professionals about how to succeed in graduate school and excel in computer science research.
Awarded NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
March 2023
I was awarded an Honorable Mention for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) competition, which honors intellectual merit and broader impact of my graduate research and service towards inclusive excellence in computer science and engineering.
ProperData 2nd Annual Symposium
December 2022
I attended the ProperData 2nd Annual Symposium at UCI. I presented a poster of my latest research and discussed research ideas with other ProperData graduate students, researchers, and faculty.
Privacy Engineering Internship at Common Sense Media
August 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 research report about privacy of virtual reality, and trained to become a privacy policy evaluator. Thank you for having me, CSM!
Joined PhD Program at UCI
September 2021
I began my PhD Program in Computer Science at UCI, where I will be conducting privacy research with Athina Markopoulou and Scott Jordan in the UCI Networking Group.