Current Projects
Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses
Current Projects
- Censorship Circumvention in Internet. Kevin Wang, Phong Nguyen Hoang, Aastha Mehta
- Network Side-Channel Mitigation at Datacenter Scale. Hanson Liang, Anmol Ghadia, Swati Goswami, Reto Achermann, Aastha Mehta
- Side Channels in Interconnects. Aastha Mehta, Reto Achermann, Rut Vora, Hongyue Jin
- Microarchitectural Side Channels in Language Runtimes. Yayu Wang, Kjell Dankert, Aastha Mehta
- ICS-Sniper: A Targeted Blackhole Attack on Encrypted ICS Traffic. Gargi Mitra, Pritam Dash, Elaine Yao, Chanyuan Liu, Aastha Mehta, Karthik Pattabiraman
Past Projects
- NetShaper: A Differentially Private Network Side-Channel Mitigation System. Amir Sabzi, Rut Vora, Swati Goswami, Margo Seltzer, Mathias Lécuyer, Aastha Mehta
- Pacer: Comprehensive Network Side-Channel Mitigation in the Cloud. Aastha Mehta, Mohamed Alzayat, Roberta De Viti, Peter Druschel, Deepak Garg
Past Members and Collaborators
Aidan Shields, Amir Sabzi, Arun Balamurali, Gregorio Silvestri, Haiying Li, Lucas Qin, Mathias Lécuyer, Marcus Lai, Ngoc Bui, Rut Vora
Security in Serverless
Current Projects
- Easing Compliance Burden through Automated Policy Specification. Cathy Liu, Ivan Beschastnikh, Aastha Mehta
Past Projects
- Growlithe: Compliance for Serverless Workflows. Praveen Gupta, Arshia Moghimi, Mohammad Shahrad, Aastha Mehta
Past Members and Collaborators
Arshia Moghimi (UBC ECE), Devam Sisodraker, Praveen Gupta, Mohammad Shahrad (UBC ECE)
Privacy-preserving Epidemic Risk Mitigation System
Current Projects
- Understanding User Perception of Privacy and Utility in Digital Contact Tracing Systems. Angela Demarco, Aastha Mehta, Joanna McGrenere
Past Projects
- Reconciling Security and Utility in Next Generation Epidemic Risk Mitigation System. 2023. Pierfrancesco Ingo, Nichole Boufford, Ming Cheng Jiang, Rowan Lindsay, Roberta De Viti, Matthew Lentz, Gilles Barthe, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez, Bernhard Schölkopf, Deepak Garg, Peter Druschel, Aastha Mehta
- Listening to Bluetooth Beacons for Epidemic Risk Mitigation. Gilles Barthe, Roberta De Viti, Peter Druschel, Deepak Garg, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez, Pierfrancesco Ingo, Heiner Kremer, Matthew Lentz, Lars Lorch, Aastha Mehta, Bernhard Schölkopf
Past Members and Collaborators
Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI-IS), Deepak Garg (MPI-SWS), Gilles Barthe (MPI-SP), Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez (MPI-SWS), Peter Druschel (MPI-SWS), Pierfrancesco Ingo (MPI-SWS)
Security and Efficiency in Edge Computing
Past Projects
- Relocate-Vote: Using Sparsity Information to Exploit Ciphertext Side-Channels. Yuqin Yan, Wei Huang, Ilya Grishchenko, Gururaj Saileshwar, Aastha Mehta, David Lie
- LDPKiT: Recovering Utility in LDP Schemes by Training with Noiseˆ2. Kexin Li, Yang Xi, Aastha Mehta, David Lie
- Stream Processing with Adaptive Edge-Enhanced Confidential Computing. Yuqin Yan, Pritish Mishra, Wei Huang, Aastha Mehta, Oana Balmau, David Lie
- Securing Edge System Accelerators: A Design Evaluation Using ARM Fast Models. Kasra Kamal, Arpan Gujarati, Aastha Mehta
Past Members and Collaborators
Arpan Gujarati, David Lie (UofT ECE), Kasra Kamal, Kexin Li (UofT), Yuqin Yan (UofT)