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Pouneh Nikkhah Bahrami

I am a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Davis. I work under the direction of my advisor Prof. Zubair Shafiq.
My research focuses on emerging online tracking techniques, specifically browser fingerprinting, by combining machine learning and web measurement approaches. I specialize in the analysis of JavaScript, both statically and dynamically, to identify potential security and privacy threats. My primary application of these skills has been in instrumenting web browsers to collect data for static or dynamic threat detection. I have applied these skills in real-world settings through internships at Brave Browser and Google Chrome, where I gained hands-on experience in tackling security and privacy challenges in mainstream browsers.

I hold a master's degree in software engineering from the University of Tehran and a bachelor's in Information Technology from IASBS. I worked as a software engineer for two years at City Bank and collaborated with the University of Salford's Cyber Security lab in the UK, focusing on Wireless Sensor Network security.

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News

10/2023 Presented "Tracking, Profiling, and Ad Targeting in the Alexa Echo Smart Speaker Ecosystem" at IMC 2023, Montreal, CA
10/2023 "Tracking, Profiling, and Ad Targeting in the Alexa Echo Smart Speaker Ecosystem" won the best paper award!
10/2023 Started my internship at Google's Security, Privacy and Abuse Prevention
09/2023 Attended ProperData 3rd Annual Symposium in Boston, Massachusetts
08/2023 Invited talk at Google (presented "Unveiling the Secrets of Online Privacy")
07/2023 serving as the publication chair of Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2024)

Old News

07/2023 Received travel grant to attend PETS 2023 in Lausanne, Switzeland
07/2023 Started my Summer internship at Ennetix
06/2023 Received travel grant to attend ACM SIGMETRICS 2023 in Orlando, Florida
04/2023 Received grant to attend the 2023 Cybersecurity Summer Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
11/2022 Received travel grant to attend ACM CCS 2022 in Los Angeles
08/2022 Attended the USENIX security '22 in Boston.
07/2022 Presented FP-Radar in PETS '22 (video)
06/2022 Started my Summer internship at Brave Software
05/2022 Received travel grant to attend IEEE S&P Oakland
01/2022 Invited talk at Spirals, France
12/2021 Invited talk at Brave Software
11/2021 Invited talk at Oracle Labs, Brisbane, Australia
11/2021 Attended the ProperData Symposium at UCI.
11/2021 "FP-Radar: Longitudinal Measurement and Early Detection of Browser Fingerprinting" was accepted at PETS 2022
10/2021 Invited talk at Ad Blocker Dev Summit (video)
06/2020 Joined Gunrock Breakerspace Lab