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I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University and co-director of Purdue Security Laboratory (PurSec Lab). I am also affiliated with the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), aiming to broaden interdisciplinary collaboration for security and privacy. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Penn State University, where I was advised by Professor Patrick McDaniel and was the lead graduate student of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security Laboratory (SIIS). My research investigates the design and evaluation of security for software and systems, specifically on emerging computing platforms and the complex environments in which they operate. Through systems design, program analysis, and formal methods, my research seeks to improve security and privacy guarantees in commodity computer systems. My research approach is best illustrated by my extensive work in Internet of Things (IoT)/Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), including robotic vehicles, automobiles, self-driving cars, industrial control systems, and mobile systems, such as smartphones, wearables (e.g., smartwatches, AR/VR headsets). I contribute to the research community through various service roles. Currently, I serve as the Secretary/Treasurer of ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC), as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), and as a co-moderator for cs.CR, the Cryptography and Security subject area in arXiv.

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