I have secured my PhD degree at Ca’Foscari University Venice, Italy under the supervision of Stefano Calzavara. My aim is to make the internet a secure place. My research focuses on privacy and security-related issues on the Internet, data measurements, information flow analysis, Internet of Things, and GDPR. I have also worked as a research intern with Secure Web Application Group under the supervision of Ben Stock at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security.

Before that, I obtained my master’s degree in Information and Communication Engineering from CQUPT China in 2019 and got Outstanding Graduate Award. During my master’s degree, I worked under the supervision of Rong Chai on Internet of Things and Machine-to-Machine Communication.

My Research interests are:

• Web Security and Privacy
• Data Privacy and Protection
• Internet and Web Measurements
• EU Compliance regulations, GDPR
• Internet of Things

If you are interested in any research direction above, feel free to knock me at –> zubair dot ahmad at unive dot com

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

• May 2022, Best Performance Award – European Parliament - Venice Universities Model European Union
• Jun 2021, Summer School OPLSS – Oregon State University USA
• Apr 2021, Best Performance Award – European Parliament - Venice Universities Model European Union
• Jun 2019, Outstanding Graduate Award – Master’s Degree 2019
• Nov 2020, Italian Ph.D. Fellowship
• Jun 2019, Best Performance Award – United States Academic Decathlon
• Jun. 2019, Best Paper Award, China
• Dec. 2017, First Prize “One Belt One Road Business Idea Challenge, China
• Sep 2020, PhD Representative – Ca’Foscari University Venice
• Mar 2018, Vice President – International Students Association CQUPT China
• Jul. 2016, Chinese Scholarship Award

What’s New?

• Nov 2024, Program Committee PETs 2025
• July 2024, Research work accepted at International Journal of Information Security.
• May 2024, Successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis titled “Dynamic Taint Tracking for Web Privacy Analysis”
• Feb 2024, Guest Speaker at Acronis fireside chat about new EU directive NIS2.
• Dec 2023, Program Committee MadWeb 2024 (co-located with NDSS 2024)
• Aug 2023, Research work accepted at ACM Transactions on Web Journal
• Mar 2023, Joined SWAG research group at CISPA Germany as a visiting Ph.D. scholar under the supervision of Ben Stock
• May 2022, Had a talk at Ca’Foscari University
• Apr 2022, Presented our paper Video at Madweb-NDSS 2022
• Feb 2022, Research work accepted at Madweb-NDSS 2022
• May 2022, Best Performance Award – Venice Universities Model European Union
• May 2021, Best Performance Award – Venice Universities Model European Union
• Jun 2021, Attended Summer School - OPLSS - USA
• Jun 2019, Outstanding Graduate Award - Master’s Degree 2019
• Jun.2019, Best Paper Award, ChinaCom China
• Jun 2019. Best Performance Award – United States Academic Decathlon
• Dec 2018, First Place “One Belt One Road Business Idea Challenge, China