About
I am a third year Ph.D. student in the CISE department of the University of Florida, as well as a researcher at UF's Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research (FICS) lab. My research focuses on user privacy over wireless mediums such as cellular and Bluetooth networks. To that end, I have authored work in detecting Non-Discoverable Bluetooth Classic devices and principled approaches for detecting adversarial cellular base stations (e.g., "rogue base stations", "IMSI-Catchers") with my advisor Patrick Traynor.
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I earned both my Master's degree in Computer Science and my Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida. I decided to continue my education in Computer Science with a Ph.D. from UF, now specializing in cybersecurity to complement my research at FICS.
Published Research
LeopardSeal - Introduces a new technique for detecting Audio Rouge Base Stations (ARBSs) in the wild using distance-bounding over the audio channel of a phone call, and tested this detection mechanism between dozens of cities throughout the United States
Blue's Clues - Complete break of Bluetooth Classic's Non-Discoverable mode by retransmitting wirelessly recovered MAC addresses, which leads to DoS attacks and packet injection against unauthenticated devices.
FirmWire - The first full-system emulation platform for baseband processors, which uncovered four previously unknown vulnerabilities for LTE and GSM networks.
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August 2024 Co-authored work SoK: The Good, The Bad, and The Unbalanced: Measuring Structural Limitations of Deepfake Media Datasets accepted to the 2024 USENIX Security Symposium
August 2024 Completed internship with economic consulting firm Analysis Group, specializing in research for litigation cases based on technology disputes
May 2023 Co-authored work LeopardSeal: Detecting Call Interception via Audio Rogue Base Stations accepted to the 2023 ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys)
April 2023 Received Gartner Group Graduate Fellowship Award from the UF CISE Department
June 2022 First-Author work Blue's Clues: Practical Discovery of Non-Discoverable Bluetooth Devices accepted to the 2023 IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy
October 2021 Co-authored Firmwire: Transparent Dynamic Analysis for Cellular Baseband Firmware academic paper at the 2022 ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
August 2020 Contributed base station work for the Emulating Samsung's Baseband for Security Testing presentation at Blackhat '20
May 2019 Received Renwick Scholarship for Master's student researchers at UF
August 2018 Completed controls internship with Siemens Power Generation
August 2018 Completed frontend development on desktop application for Digital Control Lab
April 2018 Won 1st place award in UF ECE Senior Design Competition along with partner Daniel Gonzalez
August 2017 Completed ELDP internship with Siemens Industry Automation
August 2016 Completed systems engineering internship with Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control
February 2016 Hosted Engineering and Science Fair Event for 1000+ K-12 students from throughout Florida with UF Engineer's Week