Welcome

Our group is doing research in the area of networking under the direction of Prof. Markopoulou. Current projects are in the areas of  mobile systems and mobile data analytics, privacy and IoT devices, network measurement. Our graduate students come from  the EECS, CS and Networked Systems graduate programs. Our lab is located at Engineering Hall 4120.

 

Recent News:

  • October 2023: Congrats to Umar, Rahmadi, Hao, Athina, and all collaborators for receiving the Best Paper Award at IMC 2023 for “Tracking, Profiling, and Ad Targeting in the Alexa Echo Smart Speaker Ecosystem”.
  • October 2023: Congrats to Mengwei and Evita for having our paper, “Location Leakage in Federated Signal Maps”, accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 
  • October 2023: ProperData launches a montly “ProperData Seminar Series: Privacy Frontiers” to present the latest developments and trends related to privacy and data transparency, from leading experts in technology and policy aspects of privacy.
  • August 2023: Congratulations to Hieu Le for defending his thesis (on automating filter rule generation for adblocking) and starting a postdoc at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor!
  • June 2023: Congrats to Hao Cui for having our paper, “PoliGraph: Automated Privacy Policy Analysis using Knowledge Graphs,” accepted to USENIX Security 2023. 
  • May 2023: Congratulations to Janus Varmarken for defending his thesis (on the privacy implications of SmartTVs) and joining Juniper Networks!
  • Old(er) news

Openings:

  • We are always looking for motivated PhD students in the areas of privacy, machine learning, mobile, IoT and VR/AR systems. 
  • Not actively looking for postdocs, at this point.