Biography
I am a Software Engineer at Microsoft, where I apply my expertise in security and privacy to build robust systems. I recently completed my PhD in Computer Science at North Carolina State University, advised by Dr. Anupam Das, where my research focused on Security and Privacy with an emphasis on IoT and Web Security as part of the Wolfpack Security and Privacy Lab (WSPR). I hold a BS in Computer Science from Lahore University of Management Sciences, class of 2020.
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Interests
- Security
- Privacy
- Internet of Things
Education
PhD in Computer Science, 2025
NC State University
BS in Computer Science, 2020
Lahore University of Management Science (LUMS)
Experience
Software Engineer II
Software Engineer Intern
- Revamped offline Big Data processing pipeline in Azure Data Lake to optimize for location processing and increased recall by upto 50% increase Ad revenue in certain cases by 350%
- Developed and deployed into production C++ online implementation to improve Ad delivery based on location. Wrote unit tests that increased code coverage and created comprehensive End-to-end testing
- Migrated location processing pipeline away from radius based using Reverse Geocoding in collaboration with Bing Maps team. Saved 87% compute resources while increasing coverage by 25%
Software Engineer Intern
- Researched cutting-edge GPU virtualization applications for ML acceleration in Google Cloud while working independently.
- Built and optimized network latency and bandwidth projection tool for simulator in C++ to add remote GPU performance estimations while reducing resource utilization and improving workflow
- Migrated C++ code across Google to newer protocol buffer versions saving resources as part of a Community Project. Received peer bonus and personal thanks from the project owner
Led the technology division of the company to create the user, merchant and admin full stack applications that powers a startup working in FinTech industry in Pakistan
Software Engineer
As part of the research and development team worked on multiple cutting-edge research projects
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(2026).
PriVA-C: Defending Voice Assistants from Fingerprinting Attacks.
In PETS ‘26.
(2025).
Analyzing Ad Prevalence, Characteristics, and Compliance in Alexa Skills.
In IEEE S&P ‘25.
(2023).
Spying through your voice assistants: Realistic voice command fingerprinting.
In Usenix Security ‘23.
(2023).
INSPIRE: Instance-level Privacy-preserving Transformation for Vehicular Camera Videos.
ICCCN.
(2022).
Analyzing the Feasibility and Generalizability of Fingerprinting Internet of Things Devices.
In PETS'22.
(2022).
Poster: Fingerprinting IoT Devices in Open-world Setting.
NDSS 2022.
(2021).
Understanding the Privacy Implications of Adblock Plus’s Acceptable Ads.
ASIA CCS ‘21.
Contact
- dahmed2 at ncsu dot edu
- +1 (nine 84) three 89 376 seven
- Mountain View, CA