I'm a software engineer and final-year PhD candidate at Northeastern University. I build systems to measure things at internet scale, and use them to study how privacy and AI governance play out in the real world.
My research focuses on web privacy and security, and internet measurement. Lately I've also been getting into AI privacy, security, and governance: how AI systems handle personal data and what it takes to make that auditable. I write about what I find, and I'm actively looking for full-time roles and postdoc positions in software, privacy, or systems engineering.
Projects
View all →Google Topics API Privacy Audit
Measured whether Google's Topics API can be abused to infer users' demographics and sensitive interests from browsing history. Found predictive signals in 17 of 19 traits.
Third Parties — Web Almanac 2025
Co-authored the Third Parties chapter of the 2025 HTTP Archive Web Almanac, analyzing third-party resource usage across millions of websites.
IAB CCPA Compliance Auditor
Built a crawler to audit CCPA consent compliance across thousands of top websites — found widespread failures in opt-out signal propagation.
Google Search Market Share Analysis
First large-scale analysis of Google Search's market share under vertical segmentation, using real browsing trace data from a US panel.
News
- Mar 2026 Industry talk accepted at PEPR 2026 — Why Consent Fails in Practice
- Jan 2026 Paper on Google's Topics API accepted at WWW 2026
- Jan 2026 Co-authored the Third Parties chapter of the 2025 Web Almanac
- Jun 2025 Presented Topics API poster at Google Ads Privacy Conference, Mountain View
- Nov 2024 Received travel grant; attended IMC 2024 in Madrid
- Jul 2024 Presented PETS 2024 paper in Bristol, UK
- Jun 2024 Best Paper Honourable Mention at AAAI ICWSM 2024