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.

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Aug 2023, Recognized as Noteworthy Reviewer at USENIX Security 2023.

Jan 2023, Invited to Dagstuhl seminar "MAD: Microarchitectural Attacks and Defenses".

Jan 2023, I will be chairing the poster session and ACM Student Research Competition at SOSP 2023.

Sep 2022, Received funding from DND IDEaS for our pan-Canadian micro-net on "A Platform for Secure and Dependable Hierarchical Edge Processing on 5G".

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