I currently work as a Senior Security Researcher at Censys. I completed
my Ph.D in 2023 in Computer Science and Engineering
at the University of California - San Diego.
I am broadly
interested in quantifying and improving security processes
using data and research science methods. Most recently, I've
been exploring questions related to the Web and Internet
scanning. In the past, I used large-scale empirical
analyses to understand and improve security processes within an
enterprise, examine user behaviors via network traffic, and
answer Web related questions from the perspective of Chrome.
Grant Ho, Ariana Mirian, Elisa Luo, Khang Tong, Euyhyun Lee, Lin Liu, Christopher A. Longhurst, Christian Dameff, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker
46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, California, 2025
Ariana Mirian, Grant Ho, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Austin, Texas, 2023
Ariana Mirian, advised by Stefan Savage and Geoff Voelker
Ph.D Dissertation, University of California, San Diego 2023
Defense Video ("celebration" ends and slides begin at 11:00)
Ariana Mirian, Alisha Ukani, Ian Foster, Gautam Akiwate, Taner Halicioglu, Cynthia T. Moore, Alex C. Snoeren, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage
16th Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Workshop (CSET), Marina Del Rey, California, 2023
Enze Liu, Gautam Akiwate, Mattijs Jonker, Ariana Mirian, Grant Ho, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage
8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy
(EuroS&P), Delft, Netherlands, 2023
Distinguished Paper Award Winner
Alisha Ukani, Ariana Mirian, Alex C. Snoeren
21st Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Virtual, November 2021
Enze Liu, Gautam Akiwate, Mattijs Jonker, Ariana Mirian, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker
21st Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Virtual, November 2021
Anil Yelam, Shibani Subbareddy, Keerthana Ganesan, Stefan Savage, Ariana Mirian
The Web Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 2021
Ariana Mirian
ACM Queue, Volume 17 Issue 4, October 2019
Communications of the ACM, Volume 62 No. 12, December 2019
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
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
Ariana Mirian, Joe DeBlasio, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Kurt Thomas
The Web Conference, San Francisco, United States, May 2019
Ariana Mirian, Christopher Thompson, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Adrienne Porter Felt
Google Tech Report, 2018
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
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
Zakir Durumeric, David Adrian, Ariana Mirian, Michael Bailey, J. Alex Halderman
22nd ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Denver, CO, October 2015
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)
Assessed problems with security processes collaboration with IT employees around: vulnerability remediation, phishing training, security policy communications, and security education training effects on outcome.
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
Mentor: Adrienne Porter Felt and Emily Stark
Explored HTTPS adoption hurdles for small (longtail) site owners, which culminated in a publication submission.
Mentors: Jaimee McCord and Sonia Nagar
Successfully led a team of three other interns towards completion of a product (now deprecated) for the company.