I am a PhD candidate and researcher at the University of California - San Diego in
the Computer Science and Engineering department. I am broadly
interested in understanding and improving security processes
using data and research science methods.
My current research focuses on using large-scale empirical
analyses to understand and improve security processes within an
enterprise; some examples of my current work are understanding
the effects security training has on outcome, improving
vulnerability remediation processes, and bettering phishing
training.
At UC San Diego, I am advised by Stefan Savage and
Geoff Voelker.
I am currently looking for industry research positions. I
plan to gradute in April 2023 and am looking for positions
starting in summer of 2023. Please reach out!
- News
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- 2022-12-06 --- I am planning to defend in April 2023 and am looking for industry research positions starting in summer 2023! If you think you have a position that is a good fit, please do not hesitate to reach out.
- 2022-12-06 --- I was awarded an ITS STAR award for creativity in improving the vulnerability remediation pipeline at UC San Diego!
- 2021-09-20 --- Two of our papers have been accepted to IMC '21 -- one on mail service provider characterization and another on quantifying undergraduate Internet usage during the pandemic.
- Publications
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Locked-In in During Lock-Down: Undergraduate Life on the Internet in a Pandemic
Alisha Ukani, Ariana Mirian, Alex C. Snoeren
21st Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Virtual, November 2021
Who’s Got Your Mail? Characterizing Mail Service Provider Usage
Enze Liu, Gautam Akiwate, Mattijs Jonker, Ariana Mirian, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker
21st Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Virtual, November 2021
CoResident Evil: Covert Communication in the Cloud With Lambdas
Anil Yelam, Shibani Subbareddy, Keerthana Ganesan, Stefan Savage, Ariana Mirian
The Web Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 2021
Hack for Hire: Investigating the Black Market of Retail Email Account Hacking Services
Ariana Mirian
ACM Queue, Volume 17 Issue 4, October 2019
Communications of the ACM, Volume 62 No. 12, December 2019
Measuring Security Practices and How They Impact Security
Louis DeKoven, Audrey Randall, Ariana Mirian, Gautam Akiwate, Ansel Blume, Lawrence K. Saul, Aaron Schulman, Geoffrey M.Voelker, Stefan Savage
19th Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2019
Web Feature Deprecation: A Case Study for Chrome
Ariana Mirian, Nikunj Bhagat, Caitlin Sadowski, Adrienne Porter Felt, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker
41st International Conference for Software Engineering, Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE SEIP), Montreal, Canada, May 2019
Hack for Hire: Exploring the Emerging Market for Account Hijacking
Ariana Mirian, Joe DeBlasio, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Kurt Thomas
The Web Conference, San Francisco, United States, May 2019
HTTPS Adoption in the Longtail
Ariana Mirian, Christopher Thompson, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Adrienne Porter Felt
Google Tech Report, 2018
Security Challenges in an Increasingly Tangled Web
Deepak Kumar, Zane Ma, Zakir Durumeric, Ariana Mirian, Joshua Mason, J. Alex Halderman, Michael Bailey
26th International World Wide Web Conference, Perth, Australia, April 2017
An Internet-Wide View of ICS Devices
Ariana Mirian, Zane Ma, David Adrian, Matthew Tischer, Thasphon Chuenchujit, Tim Yardley, Robin Berthier, Josh Mason, Zakir Durumeric, J. Alex Halderman, and Michael Bailey
14th Annual Privacy, Security and Trust Conference (PST), Auckland, NZ, December 2016
A Search Engine Backed by Internet Wide Scanning
Zakir Durumeric, David Adrian, Ariana Mirian, Michael Bailey, J. Alex Halderman
22nd ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Denver, CO, October 2015
Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor MITM…An Empirical Analysis of Mail Delivery Security
Zakir Durumeric, David Adrian, Ariana Mirian, James Kasten, Kurt Thomas, Vijay Eranti, Nicolas Lidzborski, Elie Bursztein, Michael Bailey, J. Alex Halderman
15th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Tokyo, October 2015 IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP)
- Industry Experience
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Researcher ITS Security Team, ITS Security Team, 2021-Present
Assessed problems with security processes collaboration with IT employees around: vulnerability remediation, phishing training, security policy communications, and security education training effects on outcome.
Software Engineering Intern Metrics team, Google Chrome, 2018
Mentor: Nik Bhagat, Caitlin Sadowski, and Adrienne Porter Felt
Examined web feature deprecation process via Chrome, and developed a new set of guidelines and corresponding (internal) tool to better the deprecation process
Software Engineering Intern Enamel team, Google Chrome Security, 2017
Mentor: Adrienne Porter Felt and Emily Stark
Explored HTTPS adoption hurdles for small (longtail) site owners, which culminated in a publication submission.
Product Manager Intern RetailMeNot, 2014
Mentors: Jaimee McCord and Sonia Nagar
Successfully led a team of three other interns towards completion of a product (now deprecated) for the company.
- Service
- Usenix Security PC Member: 2021 - 2023
- Usenix CSET PC Member: 2019 - 2021
- Department Leadership
- CSE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee, 2018-2021
- CSE Graduate Women in Computing, 2017-2021
- CSE PhD Admissions Committee, 2017-2020
- CSE Social Hour and Coffee Hour Chair, 2016-2017