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• 9 November 2023
  Presented my research on censorship devices at IETF 118 in Prague.
  

• 7 September 2023
  Super excited to attend ACM SIGCOMM 2023, where I presented our work on detecting connection tampering globally and passively.
  

• 10 August 2023
  Looking forward to presenting our work on network changes in Russia following the Ukraine invasion at USENIX Security 2023.
  

• 01 June 2023
  Learned a lot from attending the 2023 Rachkam CRLT Preparing Future Faculty Seminar.
  

• 04 May 2023
  Read my new blogpost on the ISOC Pulse blog about improving the process of censorship data analysis.
  

• 17 March 2023
  I am extremely happy to have been awarded the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2023-2024
  

• 16 March 2023
  It was extremely rewarding to attend the PhD connections conference at the University of Michigan and hear from a group of diverse expert panelists.
  

• 24 February 2023
  My new research paper appearing at USENIX Security 2023 investigates network changes in Russia following the escalation of the conflict with Ukraine.
  

• 15 February 2023
  It was amazing to present my work on censorship data analysis to the Internet Freedom research community at FOCI 2023.
  

• 23 January 2023
  I had a great time interacting with the Internet Freedom Community and giving a talk at the 2023 OTF Summit in Austin, Texas
  

• 16 January 2023
  Grateful to be receive a 2023 North Campus Deans MLK Spirit Award
  

• 09 January 2023
  I am delighted and honored to receive the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) for my work on studying censorship devices. I was also featured on the UM CSE news page
  

• 06 December 2022
  I presented my recent work on examining censorship devices at CoNEXT 2022. Blogposts about my work were published at OTF News and Censored Planet.
  

  

• 11 July 2022
  Excited to start my internship with the Cloudflare research team, where I will be working on detecting traffic tampering.
  

• 01 July 2022
  I volunteered in the Xplore Engineering outreach event organized by CSEG and had a great time leading CS workshops for kids in grades 4-7.
  

• 09 June 2022
  I gave a talk about the Censored Planet dashboard at RightsCon 2022
  

  

• 25 April 2022
  Had a great time at the IEEE S&P Workshops thanks to an OTF travel grant.
  

• 25 April 2022
  Super excited to attend NDSS 2022
  

• 30 March 2022
  It was great to give a guest lecure on Censorship and Circumvention at EECS 388
  

  

• 25 March 2022
  I gave a talk about Censored Planet and its public data at the MIDAS 5th Annual Data for Public Good Symposium
  

• 18 November 2021
  We uploaded a recorded version of our Censored Planet Community Webinar 2021
  

• 15 November 2021
  I am very grateful to have been awarded the Open Technology Fund Information Controls Fellowship Award, and I am very excited to work with The Citizen Lab for the duration of my fellowship!
  

• 04 October 2021
  We organized the Censored Planet Community Webinar 2021, where I talked about Censored Planet tools, data, and some of our new capabilities to analyze and explore data produced by the observatory.
  

  

• 27 August 2021
  Excited to attend and serve as a session chair for the HTTPS censorship session at ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI 21)
  

• 10 June 2021
  I attended the NextProf Engineering 2021 workshop organized by the University of Michigan
  

  

• 10 April 2021
  I led a series of outreach events (FEMMES Connect, FEMMES Explore) for CSEG in collaboration with FEMMES University of Michigan. The events involved designing and performing activities that helped middle-school aged students learn about computer algorithms and robots.
  

  

• 5 April 2021
  We at Censored Planet are excited to announce the release of Satellite-v2, along with documentation, analysis helpers and other information which we hope will help the community understand Censored Planet data better.
  

• 21 February 2021
  I was honoured to give an invited talk on Censored Planet at the 2021 NDSS DNS Privacy workshop.
  

• 11 November 2020
  I was a finalist in the 2020 Michigan CSE Graduate Student Honors Competition where I represented the Michigan Systems Lab.
  

  

• 10 November 2020
  I am presenting our paper on Censored Planet at ACM SIGSAC CCS 2020.
  

• 27 October 2020
  Our paper on investigating large scale HTTPS interception in Kazakhstan was nominated for the best paper award at ACM IMC 2020.
  

• 27 October 2020
  I attended ACM IMC 2020 where I presented our paper on investigating large scale HTTPS interception in Kazakhstan.
  

• 11 August 2020
  I attended FOCI 2020 and Usenix Security 2020 funded by the student grant.
  

• 26 June 2020
  I gave a live-streamed talk about the Censored Planet Observatory at the OONI Internet Measurement Village.
  

• 24 June 2020
  I became a PhD candidate! 🎉
  

• 24 February 2020
  My first first-author research paper studying the proliferation of network censorship filters in the world. 🎉
  

  

• 6 November 2019
  Excited to announce a research paper studying information control in depth in Russia.
  

  

• 29 October 2019
  OONI released a blog post on the blocking of abortion rights websites on the web, to which I contributed using data from the Censored Planet Observatory.
  

  

• 31 July 2019
  I attended and hosted a session in the Citizen Lab Summer Institute 2019 in Toronto, Canada facilitated by Citizen Labs travel grant.
  

• 23 July 2019
  I led an investigation into the interception of HTTPS connections of Internet users in Kazakhstan. A blog post about our work is here: https://censoredplanet.org/kazakhstan
  

  

• 20 May 2019
  I attended IEEE S&P 2019 in San Fransisco, California
  

• 13 May 2019
  I attended the Midwest Security Workshop 7 in Chicago, Illinois
  

• 14 August 2018
  I gave a Lightining Talk about the Censored Planet Observatory at FOCI 2018.