I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University. As a security researcher, I focus on nation-state/highly privileged attackers, Internet-scale measurement/vulnerabilities, and election security. I recently left Google's Production Security team where I was working to mitigate insider threats, secure core infrastructure, and improve the overall security and privacy properties of Google's products and services.

My Ph.D. research focused on studying nation-state attackers such as the NSA, GCHQ, and other intelligence agencies to understand their approach to security issues and identify weaknesses that are form-fitted to their special abilities and characteristics. Throughout my graduate education at the University of Michigan, I was advised by Prof. J. Alex Halderman and funded by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, the Post-9/11 GI Bill, Google ATAP, and others.

My work has helped explain intelligence agencies' ability to defeat widely used cryptography, identify and analyze the danger posed by common cryptographic shortcuts used in the TLS protocol, and demonstrated the real-world potential of election interference by foreign actors through technical means. This research has been covered and cited by The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Ars Technica, The Guardian, US-CERT, NIST, FBI Cyber Division, and Playboy (SFW).