Activities
Honors & Awards
- Distinguished Artifact Award, NDSS (JBomAudit)Feb 2025
- Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award, Indiana UniversityMay 2024
- Luddy Outstanding Researcher Award, Indiana UniversityMay 2023
- Lalaine showcased at the NSA CAE-R Research Symposium2023
- Grace Hopper Celebration funding, Luddy SchoolMay 2022
- Second Place, HackIN CTF (team)Oct 2021
- Luddy Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Indiana UniversityMay 2021
- First Place, Women’s Research Poster CompetitionApr 2021
- Departmental Nominee, Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace FellowshipNov 2020
Bug Bounties & Vulnerability Disclosures
- Google — $5,000 bug bounty for discovering malicious SDKsJan 2020
- Facebook — $30,000 bug bounty for reporting real-world cybercrime stealing users’ OAuth tokens and PIIDec 2019
- Twitter — Bug bounty for discovering new attacks against Twitter users in the wildNov 2019
- Tencent — Acknowledged our reported vulnerability in WeChatAug 2019
- Opera — Named in the Opera Security Hall of FameAug 2019
Invited Talks
- Securing the Open Source Supply Chain: A Better Approach to Generating SBOMs — Linux FoundationFeb 2026
- Measuring and Characterizing Non-Compliance of Apple Privacy Labels at Scale — TikTokJan 2024
- Unveiling the Power of Compliance Analysis Tools: Ensuring Correctness and Comprehensiveness in Privacy Labels — Federal Trade Commission (FTC)Apr 2023
Professional Service
Conference Organization
- Program Chair, ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Superapps (SaTS)2025
- Publicity Chair, Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)2025, 2026
Program Committees
- ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)2026
- Conference on Software Supply Chain Offensive Research and Ecosystem Defenses (SCORED)2026
- ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT)2026
- Workshop on Security and Privacy in Standardized IoT (SDIoTSec)2026
- ACM Workshop on Security and Privacy of AI-Empowered Mobile Super Apps (SaTS)2025, 2026
- Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Artifact Evaluation2022, 2023
Proposal Review
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Review Panel2026
Journal Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)2024–2026
- ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS)2024–2026
- IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)2023–2026
External Reviewer
IEEE S&P (2019, 2021–2023), ACM CCS (2020, 2022, 2023), NDSS (2020–2022), ACSAC (2019, 2022), ACM ASIACCS (2020), ACM WiSec (2021, 2022), PoPETs (2024), IEEE EuroS&P (2024), The Web Conference (2023).
Service at William & Mary
- Member, W&M Cybersecurity Center (Fall 2025–Present); General Co-chair, TribeCTF 2025
- Computer Science Graduate Admissions Committee (AY 2025, 2026)
- Chair, Lab Logo Committee (AY 2026)
- Co-chair, CS Web Committee
- Member, CDSP AI Initiative Working Group
- Member, Charles Center Summer Research Grant & Honors Fellowship Committee
- Ph.D. Committee: Peyton Boggs (Spring 2025)