Sana Habib

"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."               Zora Neale Hurston

I am a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Dr. Jedidiah R. Crandall in the Biodesign Center for Biocomputation, Security, and Society.

My research focuses on identifying and fixing vulnerabilities in Android apps (that come) from the app vendor and the network infrastructure. The goal of my Ph.D. is to outline these vulnerabilities and work with app vendors toward fixing them to improve Internet freedom for at-risk populations under authoritarian regimes.

Before joining Dr. Crandall’s research group, my research was corporate-centered threats. I spent a little over three years under the mentorship of Dr. Adam Doupé, where I worked on developing and building frameworks for improving security for Software-Defined Networks (SDN).