I am a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. My research interests are in the intersection of machine learning and information security. I develop learning algorithms for security problems. Also, I keep a vital interest in analyzing sensor data. Please check out my research pages or my publications/google-scholar for more details.

Currently, I am working in Dawn Song's information security group at UC Berkeley. Before joining UC Berkeley, I was a Ph.D. student at ETH Zurich under supervision of David Basin and Joachim M. Buhmann. Even earlier, I studied physics at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Sydney. I wrote a diploma thesis in the Multidimensional Image Processing group under supervision of Fred Hamprecht.

 

News:

20-24/5/2013: I'll visit University College London, University of Oxford, and University of Padua. Please drop me a line to meet me.

01/11/2013: Best poster award for Touchalytics at the Intel SCRUB retreat.

11/08/2012: My Ph.D. thesis Probabilistic Role Mining was awarded the ETH Medal.

09/21/2012: This morning, a spaceship flew over my house, approaching it from UCB campus.

09/19/2012: Two papers accepted at ICDM'12 (abstract) and ICMLA'12 (abstract).

09/17/2012: Our paper on touch-based continuous authentication will appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.