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Invited talk at Brave Software on browser fingerprinting.
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Adgraph won 3rd place for the applied research paper award at CSAW, NYU Tandon.
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Awarded Ada Louise Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship.
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Selected to present my internship research project to Craig Federighi, SVP at Apple.
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Joined Apple as a WebKit privacy intern.
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Awarded Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship.
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Presented my research on graph based ad & tracker blocking at Ad Blocker Dev Summit.
Selected Publications
Fingerprinting the Fingerprinters: Learning to Detect Browser Fingerprinting Behaviors
Umar Iqbal, Steven Englehardt, and Zubair Shafiq
IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland), 2021.AdGraph: A Graph-Based Approach to Ad and Tracker Blocking
Umar Iqbal, Peter Snyder, Shitong Zhu, Benjamin Livshits, Zhiyun Qian, and Zubair Shafiq
IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland), 2020.Best applied research paper, 3rd place, CSAW NYU Tandon.
ShadowBlock: A Lightweight and Stealthy Adblocking Browser
Shitong Zhu, Umar Iqbal, Zhongjie Wang, Zhiyun Qian, Zubair Shafiq, and Weiteng Chen
The Web Conference (WWW), 2019.The Ad Wars: Retrospective Measurement and Analysis of Anti-Adblock Filter Lists
Umar Iqbal, Zubair Shafiq, and Zhiyun Qian
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2017.