December 2025: Awarded my second masters in Computer Science from University of California, Irvine.
December 2025: Our Paper "VRProfiLens: User Profiling Risk in Consumer Virtual Reality Apps" has been accepted in Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC), co-located with NDSS, 2026.
December 2025: I have attended NeurIPS 2025, at San Diego.
November 2025: I will be serving at USENIX Security AE Program Committee, 2026!
October 2025: I will be serving as an invited judge at UROP Project Pitch Challenge.
August 2025: I will be serving as a reviewer at the Regulatable ML Workshop (NeurIPS 2025) and as an artifact reviewer at PETS 2026.
August 2025: Visited the ESET office in San Diego, joined the ESET Scholarship Alumni Club, and received scholarship recognition. Thanks ESET!
August 2025: I have joined Code to PhD as a Mentor.
July 2025: Presented our paper: BehaVR- Unique Identification based on VR Sensor Data at PETS 2025, Washington, DC.
June 2025: Thrilled to receive the ESET Women in Cybersecurity Scholarship, 2025 (~10,000); huge thanks to ESET for this incredible opportunity!
June 2025: I have received travel stipend to join PETS 2025 (Thanks to both PETS stipend committee and UCI). See everyone at PETS, Washington DC.
May 2025: I will be serving at USENIX Security AE Program Committee, 2025, Cycle-2!
March 2025: I will be serving as a judge at 2025 UC Irvine Undergraduate Research Symposium!
March 2025: I will be serving as an artifact reviewer for PETS 2025, Issue 3!
January 2025: I have received UCI Associate Graduate Student (AGS) Conference Travel Fund!
December 2024: I have received WiCyS 2025 Conference Scholarship & additional travel stipend ($500)! (top 9% among scholarship recipient).
December 2024: I have presented my poster MLSherlock at WiML (co-located with NeurIPS'24).
December 2024: I have passed my PhD Candidacy Exam.
December 2024: I will be serving as an artifact reviewer for PETS 2025, Issue 2!
November 2024: I will be serving at USENIX Security AE Program Committee, 2025!
November 2024: I have presented my poster, MLSherlock at WiCyS at UCI Research Mixer event.
November 2024: I have received the Mentoring Excellence Certificate from UCI.
October 2024: I have been awarded WiML 2024 travel grant & I am funded by NSF (thanks to both). I will be attending WiML'24 workshop & NeurIPS'24 in Vancouver, Canada.
October 2024: I was invited to present my Research and lab activities at ESC at UCI's Fall Research and Design Fair, October-1, 2024!
September 2024: I will serve as a Mentor at the WiCyS Mentorship Cohort, 2024-2025!
September 2024: I will serve as a reviewer for WiML Workshop, co-located with NeurIPS 2024!
September 2024: I have been awarded the WiCyS Security Training Scholarship!
September 2024: I will be serving as an artifact reviewer for PETS 2025, Issue 1!
July 2024: Our paper "BehaVR: User Identification Based on VR Sensor Data" has been accepted on PETS 2025!
July 2024: Our Paper "Maverick-Aware Shapley Valuation for Client Selection in Federated Learning" has been presented on ISIT Athens on 2024!
June 2024: I have been participated on UCI-UCLA privacy workshop, 2024!
May 2024: I have been presented BehaVR poster on UCI AI and Cloud workshop on 2024!
May 2024: I have been awarded the fellowship to attend Grad Cohort Workshop for Women 2024!
July 2023: Presented our paper "MIAShield: Defending Membership Inference Attacks via Preemptive Exclusion of Members" at PETS2023!
December 2022: We are the winner Team for best brainstorming Idea contest on ProPerdata 2022 Symposium for 'Data Immortality' idea!
September 2022: Started my PhD journey at University of California, Irvine!
August 2022: MIAShield has been accepted in PETS2023, issue 1!
May 2021: Awarded my Masters in CIS from University of Michigan, Dearborn. 🎓
I am not a barbie, I am a warrior!