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 and/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.

• Dec 2023, Invited to NII Shonan seminar on Web Application Security.
• Dec 2023, Our short paper "Microarchitectural Side-Channel Mitigations for Serverless Applications" is accepted to PriSC workshop 2024.
• Nov 2023, Our short paper "Microarchitectural Side-Channel Mitigations for Serverless Applications" is accepted to PLAS workshop 2023.
• Oct 2023, Gave a talk on NetShaper at TU Darmstadt.
• Oct 2023, Gave a talk on NetShaper at MPI-SWS Systems Seminar 2023.
• Oct 2023, Our paper NetShaper: A Differentially Private Network Side-Channel Mitigation System is accepted to USENIX Security 2024.
• Sep 2023, I will be on the panel of SOSP '23 doctoral workshop (SysDW'23).