I am the Class of 1953 Associate Professor of Computer Science at William & Mary, where I lead the Secure Platforms Lab (SPL). I am also the Director of the W&M Cybersecurity Center. My research secures platforms such as smart phones and smart homes by evaluating and improving automated security analyses used for vulnerability/malware detection.
In particular, I build frameworks for qualitative and quantitative evaluation of security analysis tools along three key directions: (1) empirically evaluating security and privacy techniques (NDSS’24, FSE’23 Demo-a, S&P’22, USENIX’18, ACM TOPS, ICSE’21 Tool Demo), (2) understanding and characterising developer and user expectations from tools (S&P’25, S&P’24-a Distinguished Paper Award, FSE’23 Demo-b, S&P’20), and (3) uncovering novel, practical, threats and building defenses for software/apps/frameworks (USENIX’24, S&P’24-b, WiSec’24, CCS’22, USENIX’22, ACM TCPS 2020, CODASPY’19 Best Paper, ACMiner).
Join us!
I am looking for highly motivated PhD, Masters, and Bachelors students to join my lab (more info) !
Contact Information
Office: McGlothlin-Street Hall 104-C
Phone: (757) 221 2953
Email: apnadkarni at wm.edu
Quick Links
- Currently teaching: CSCI 667
- IoTSpotter, for extracting and analyzing mobile-IoT apps
- MASC, for evaluating crypto-API misuse detectors
- Helion, for generating realistic home automation scenarios
- μSE, for evaluating Android data-leak detectors
Current PhD Students
- Amit Seal Ami (co-advised with Dr. Denys Poshyvanyk)
- Prianka Mandal
- Victor Olaiya
- Md. Akram Khan
Recent Professional Service
- ACM TOPS Associate Editor: June 2024 - present
- IEEE S&P Associate Chair: 2025
- IEEE S&P Program Committee: 2025, 2024, 2023
- USENIX Security Symposium Program Committee: 2023, 2021, 2019, 2018
- ISOC NDSS Program Committee: 2025, 2024, 2022, 2021, 2020
- The WebConf Program Committee: 2024
- PETS Program Committee: 2025, 2023
- ACSAC Program Committee: 2023, 2022, 2021
- ACM CCS Program Committee: 2018
- IEEE/ACM ASE Program Committee: 2021
- ACM WiSec Program Committee: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018
News
September 9, 2024Our paper, "We can't change it overnight - Understanding Industry Perspectives on IoT Product Security Compliance and Certification" has been accepted to the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2025! [S&P'25]
August 19, 2024Our paper, "Enhancing Transparency and Accountability of TPLs with PBOM - A Privacy Bill of Materials" has been accepted to the 2024 ACM Workshop on Software Supply Chain Offensive Research and Ecosystem Defenses (SCORED 2024), co-located with ACM CCS 2024! [SCORED'24]
May 20, 2024Our paper, "False negative - that one is going to kill you - Understanding Industry Perspectives of Static Analysis based Security Testing" has received the Distinguished Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2024!
December 19, 2023Our proposal (PI - Sidi Lu; Co-PI - Adwait Nadkarni) on "Investigating Security and Privacy by Design for Teleoperated Autonomous Vehicles" has been funded as a part of the CCI Fall 2023 call on "Supply Chain Cybersecurity"![CCI Announcement]
December 19, 2023Our paper, "Practical Integrity Validation in the Smart Home with HomeEndorser" has been accepted to the 2024 ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec 2024)! [WiSec'24]
October 27, 2023Our paper, "Understanding the Privacy Practices of Political Campaigns":" A Perspective from the 2020 US Election Websites" has been accepted to the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2024! [S&P'24-b]
September 14, 2023Our paper, "Towards Automated Regulation Analysis for Effective Privacy Compliance" has been accepted to the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2024! [NDSS'24]