I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst . My advisor is Professor Kevin Fu. I collaborate with him on projects involving the security and privacy of devices with severe power and computational constraints, such as medical implants. I also collaborate with other members of the SPQR and RFID CUSP labs.

My previous research includes work on covert channels and steganography, hyperelliptic curves in cryptography, and medical imaging. My last publication at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania, together with Dr. Gaurav Shah and Professor Matt Blaze, was entitled Keyboards and Covert Channels. Gaurav and I won Best Student Paper at USENIX for this work, which can be obtained here. The paper introduces JitterBugs, a new class of hardware keyboard sniffer that does not require subsequent access or any changes to the host software. JitterBugs demonstrate that supply chain attacks can be a practical and powerful threat.