News & Updates

This page highlights recent publications, talks, and awards. For a complete list of my work, please see my publications page.

Latest News

July 2025: Invited to speak at the SIP Network Operators Conference (SIPNOC) 2025 on securing telephone call metadata.
July 2025: Our paper, “How to Recover a Cryptographic Secret From the Cloud,” was accepted to the prestigious ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2025.
May 2025: Honored to receive the College of Engineering Summer Graduate Merit Award from North Carolina State University.

May 12, 2025: I received the College of Engineering Summer Graduate Merit Award at North Carolina State University. It’s an incredible honor to be recognized among a small group of outstanding graduate students across the College, and the award includes a $3,000 prize.
Oct 16, 2024: Our work on Jäger: Automated Telephone Call Traceback was recognized with both the Distinguished Paper Award and the Distinguished Artifact Award at ACM CCS 2024.

Upcoming (Sept 18, 2025): I have been invited to present our research on Secure and Efficient Out-of-Band Call Metadata Transmission at the SIP Network Operators Conference (SIPNOC) 2025 in Herndon, VA. SIPNOC is a premier event for the VoIP and telecommunications industry, and I look forward to sharing our findings.
April 16, 2025: I was invited to speak about our call traceback system, Jäger, at the North Carolina Annual Cybersecurity Symposium 2025.
Oct 10, 2024: I presented our paper, Jäger: Automated Telephone Call Traceback, at ACM CCS 2024. You can download the presentation slides here.

July 2, 2025: Our paper, “How to Recover a Cryptographic Secret From the Cloud,” was accepted to ACM CCS 2025. In this work with Tanner Verber, Alessandra Scafuro, and Chris Orsini, we introduce novel methods for secure secret recovery in cloud environments, a critical challenge as our infrastructure becomes increasingly cloud-dependent.
March 14, 2025: Our paper, “Towards Declarative Blockchains: A SHACL-Based Model for Robust and Efficient Transactions,” was accepted to IEEE ICBC 2025. This research, in collaboration with Kemafor Anyanwu and Sogolsadat Mansouri, proposes a new model to improve blockchain integrity and performance using SHACL, a W3C standard for data validation.
Sept 23, 2024: Our paper, “Jäger: Automated Telephone Call Traceback,” was accepted to ACM CCS 2024. Developed alongside Varun Madathil, Sathvik Prasad, Bradley Reaves, and Alessandra Scafuro, our system enables automated traceback of malicious telephone calls, a significant step in combating robocalls and telecom fraud.