Author Archives: zubair

Publications

  • Fingerprinting the Fingerprinters: Learning to Detect Browser Fingerprinting Behaviors
    Umar Iqbal, Steven Englehardt, Zubair Shafiq
    IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (“Oakland”), 2021.
  • Understanding Incentivized Mobile App Installs on Google Play Store
    Shehroze Farooqi, Alvaro Feal, Tobias Lauinger, Damon McCoy, Zubair Shafiq, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez
    ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2020.
  • Measuring and Mitigating OAuth Access Token Abuse by Collusion Networks
    Shehroze Farooqi, Fareed Zaffar, Nektarios Leontiadis, Zubair Shafiq
    Communications of the ACM (CACM) Research Highlights, 2020.
  • A Girl Has A Name: Detecting Authorship Obfuscation
    Asad Mahmood, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan
    Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020.
  • AdGraph: A Graph-Based Approach to Ad and Tracker Blocking
    Umar Iqbal, Peter Snyder, Shitong Zhu, Benjamin Livshits, Zhiyun Qian, Zubair Shafiq
    IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (“Oakland”), 2020.
  • CanaryTrap: Detecting Data Misuse by Third-Party Apps on Online Social Networks
    Shehroze Farooqi, Maaz Musa, Zubair Shafiq, Fareed Zaffar
    Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2020.
  • The TV is Smart and Full of Trackers: Measuring Smart TV Advertising and Tracking
    Janus Varmarken, Hieu Le, Anastasia Shuba, Zubair Shafiq, Athina Markopoulou
    Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2020.
  • Inferring Tracker-Advertiser Relationships in the Online Advertising Ecosystem using Header Bidding
    John Cook, Rishab Nithyanand, Zubair Shafiq
    Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2020.
  • Characterizing Smart Home IoT Traffic in the Wild
    M. Hammad Mazhar, Zubair Shafiq
    ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), 2020.

We conduct empirical research to study Internet-scale networked systems. We design innovative measurement techniques to understand how the Internet works and develop machine learning techniques to improve its privacy, security, and performance.