Hi, I'm Aastha Mehta

I am looking for PhD students to join my group at UBC!

Students with an interest and background in systems, networking, or security, please apply here.

I am a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the CS Department, University of British Columbia. I am affiliated with the Systopia Lab and the Security and Privacy Group.

I am broadly interested in systems security, data privacy, operating systems, networking, and distributed systems. My current research focuses on building principled systems for ensuring data security and privacy in cloud and edge platforms. I look at improving the security of both existing applications as well as emerging applications.

• Mar 2025, Rut Vora defended his MSc thesis.
• Nov 2024, Yayu Wang defended his MSc thesis.
• Oct 2024, Our paper "Growlithe: A Developer-Centric Compliance Tool for Serverless Applications" is accepted to Oakland S&P 2025.
• Oct 2024, I will be serving on the PC of ACM CCS 2025.
• Oct 2024, Received NCC Funding for research in ICS Security.
• Oct 2024, Praveen defended his MSc thesis.
• Sep 2024, I will be serving as a judge at the UBC Rogers Network API Hackathon 2024.
• Sep 2024, Arshia defended his MSc thesis.
• Sep 2024, Angie Demarco, Kjell Dankert, and Satvik Vemuganti joined the Principled Systems Security Group.
• Sep 2024, Our work "Targeting the Blind Spot: Evaluating Modern ICS Security Against A Novel Denial of Service (DoS) Attack" is accepted to RICSS 2024.