Awards

2025 Distinguished Reviewer Award (USENIX Security Symposium)

Fellowships

2024 GGCS Ph.D. Fellowship (University of California, Davis, USA) $10,000
2023 Cybersecurity Summer Institute Fellow (Georgia Tech, USA)
2022 Visiting Research Scholar Fellowship (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany) €10,000

Media Coverage

Oct 2025
How to Get Your Smart TV to Stop Spying on You
NYTimes article by Lee Neikirk
Aug 2025
UC Davis Study Reveals Alarming Browser Tracking by GenAI Assistants
UC Davis News article by Jessica Heath
Jun 2025
Yes, Your TV Is Probably Spying on You. Your Fridge, Too. Here's What They Know.
NYTimes article by Rachel Cericola, Jon Chase and Lee Neikirk
Jun 2025
Your TV Is Spying On You and Taking Screenshots
NBTV interview by Naomi Brockwell
Mar 2025
You know that generative AI browser assistant extension is probably beaming everything to the cloud, right?
Register article by Thomas Claburn
Mar 2025
Your TV is watching you
Vox article by Adam Clark Estes
Dec 2024
Your Smart TV is Watching What You Watch
UC Davis News article by Andy Fell
Dec 2024
Smart TVs Are Watching You: Research Uncovers Privacy Risks
Medium article by Kamal Acharya
Nov 2024
Smart TV tracking raises privacy concerns
UCL News article by Matt Midgley
Nov 2024
You think you're watching smart TV ... In fact it's watching you
The Times article by Mark Sellman
Oct 2024
Smart TVs are spying on you. How much do manufacturers really know?
PC World article by Laura Pippig and Joel Lee
Oct 2024
Modern data leeches: Smart TVs even track console gamers
Heise article by Mark Mantel
Oct 2024
Smart TV Surveillance? How Samsung and LG's ACR Technology Tracks What You Watch
Security Week article by Ryan Naraine
Sep 2024
Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
New Scientist article by Jeremy Hsu
Sep 2023
Elon Musk's X is ignoring its own ad policies, a new study finds
Fast Company article by Chris Stokel-Walker
Mar 2021
Tracking the Trackers
Open (The Magazine) article by Ullekh NP