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.

• Oct 2026, Our paper, "ICS-Sniper: A Targeted Blackhole Attack on Encrypted ICS Traffic" is accepted at NDSS 2027. Check out the [paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.06140.pdf) and [code](https://github.com/ICS-Sniper).
• Jun 2026, Peterson Yuhala wins a prestigious SNSF Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship.