I am a first-year PhD student in the ECE department at UCLA advised by Liz Izhikevich.

My research focuses on creating a more secure and performant Internet. I am broadly interested in Internet scanning and building systems to understand global performance over LEO satellite networks.

Previously I graduated from Stanford University with my Master’s in Computer Science and from UCSD with my Bachelor’s in Mathematics-Computer Science.

Publications

• S. Hsu, M. Tran, A. Fass. What is in the Chrome Web Store?. In AsiaCCS, July 2024.
• L. Izhikevich, M. Tran, K. Izhikevich, G. Akiwate, Z. Durumeric. Democratizing LEO Satellite Network Measurement. In ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP Performance, June 2024.
• L. Izhikevich, M. Tran, M. Kallitsis, A. Fass, Z. Durumeric. Cloud Watching: Understanding Attacks Against Cloud-Hosted Services. In ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2023.

Lab Affiliations

• Security and Networking (SCaN) Lab at UCLA [2024 - present]
• Empirical Security Research Group (ESRG) at Stanford University [2021-2023]
• CAIDA at UCSD [2020-2021]

Teaching

• CS 161: Design and Analysis of Algorithms at Stanford University
• CSE 20: Discrete Math at UCSD

In the News

• Forbes: 280 Million Google Chrome Users Installed Dangerous Extensions
• The Register: Risk of installing dodgy extensions from Chrome store way worse than Google’s letting on, study suggests