About Me
I am an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Notre Dame in the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society. My research at the intersection of networks and distributed systems security uses a variety of empirical and formal methods to close the gap between theory and implementation of network protocols and shed light on exactly what makes them vulnerable, quantify exactly how vulnerable they are, and build safeguards to help people and organizations protect themselves. In my thesis, I modeled and measured scams and attacks on blockchain protocols. I have since extended this thrust into additional domains including interdomain routing, network policies, and anonymity systems.
I was previously a postdoctoral researcher in the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University where I worked with David Choffnes. I also received my PhD at Northeastern where I was advised by Cristina Nita-Rotaru.
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News
- July 17, 2026 I will be teaching undergrad Cybersecurity this fall. Looking forward to it!
- June 10, 2026 I will be joining the University of Notre Dame this fall as an Assistant Research Professor! Looking forward to working with all the great folks at ND!
- September 29, 2025 Congrats to Nicole Gerzon for leading our Solana MEV paper to an IMC acceptance!
- April 28, 2025 I graduated today! Proof!
- March 18, 2025 I am teaching undergraduate Computer Systems this summer (CS3650).
- February 20, 2025 I successfully defended my thesis! Huge thank you to everyone who helped me along the way.
- November 8, 2024 Journalists from the university interviewed me and wrote about one of my my recent projects.
- September 26, 2024 The college wrote a nice piece about my three CCS papers, what a whirlwind!
- July 5, 2024 We had a third paper accepted to CCS! An incredible run and once again I am indebted to my first rate co-authors.
- April 4, 2024 We had two papers accepted to ACM CCS '24! I am first author on both, but neither would have been possible without my amazing collaborators.
- January 30, 2024 I’m returning as an intern to MIT-Lincoln Labs in the Secure Resilient Systems and Technology Group. I had a great experience last summer, looking forward to going back!
- June 9, 2023 Our paper MSNetViews: Geographically Distributed Management of Enterprise Network Security Policy won runner-up for best paper at ACM SACMAT '23! A great effort by all my coauthors!
- January 10, 2023 My guest post on blog Public Exposure was published today! It’s about defending against frontrunning in Ethereum. Thanks to the Lari and the Public Exposure team for their fine editorial work!
- December 9, 2022 I’ve accepted an offer to intern at MIT-Lincoln Labs in the Secure Resilient Systems and Technology Group. Looking forward to the experience!
- August 17, 2022 Our paper A Flash(bot) in the Pan: Measuring Maximal Extractable Value in Private Pools has been accepted at ACM IMC '22!
