About

The SAIN Lab performs applied, multidisciplinary, and innovative research on networks, computer systems, data, and intelligent systems. Our research touches many vibrant and exciting disciplines such as information security, privacy, artificial intelligence, computer networks, network science, and human computer interaction.

We do sane research at SAIN,

where sane research is defined as impactful research that enhances the daily lives of people, nations, and organizations, as well as being the foundation of other impactful research and development. Lab members have access to high-performance GPU servers and web servers. Members also have access to the Human-Centred Computing Lab for running studies with human subjects.

Research Focus

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Security
Information Privacy
Application Networks
Network Science
Recommendation Systems
Usable Security

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Research Group

Faculty

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Amirali Abari

Associate Professor

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Julie Thorpe

Professor

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Ying Zhu

Associate Professor

Graduate

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Danial Saber

Graduate Student

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Samira Zibaei

Graduate Student

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Samarth Kulkarni

Graduate Student

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Tanzina Akter

Graduate Student

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Tony Wang

Graduate Student

Undergraduate

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Ifeanyi Obinelo

Undergraduate Student

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Jay Savaliya

Undergraduate Student

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Liam Edney

Undergraduate Student

Alumni

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Paul Louis

Graduate Student

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Shweta Ann Jacob

Graduate Student

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Zach Parish

Undergraduate Student

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Bahare Askari

Graduate Student

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Connor Cushing

Graduate Student

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Ali Naman

Graduate Student

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Arun Sharma

Undergraduate Student

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Aryan Asadian

Graduate Student

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Ben Mercier

Undergraduate Student

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Daniel Boctor

Undergraduate Student

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Dinah Rinoa Malapaya

Undergraduate Student

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Evan Mclean

Undergraduate Student

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Huzaifa Zia

Undergraduate Student

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Israt Jahan Jui

Graduate Student

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Issac Ogunmola

Undergraduate Student

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Matthew Stefoff

Undergraduate Student

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Nathanael Coolidge

Undergraduate Student

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Nicholas Hughes

Undergraduate Student

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Rui David

Undergraduate Student

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Sarina Sajadi

Graduate Student

Recent Publications

Shweta Ann Jacob, Paul Louis, Amirali Salehi-Abari. In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM’23).
Shengqian Wang, Amirali Salehi-Abari, Julie Thorpe. In Proceedings of Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS’23)
Samira Zibaei, Amirali Salehi-Abari, Julie Thorpe. In Proceedings of the 19th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS’23)
Paul Louis, Shweta Ann Jacob, Amirali Salehi-Abari. In Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM’22).
Samira Zibaei, Dinah Malapaya, Benjamin Mercier, Amirali Salehi-Abari, Julie Thorpe. In Proceedings of the 18th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS’22)

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