I'm an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Computer Science department. My goal is to enable society to gain the benefits of emerging technologies without the security and privacy risks. I have received two best paper awards (at IEEE S&P and IEEE SecDev) for my work in smart home security. My work has been featured in Wired, The Verge, Ars Technica, Science Magazine and Nature. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan in 2017 where I was advised by Prof. Atul Prakash. Before coming to UW Madison, I spent two years working at the University of Washington as a research associate with Yoshi Kohno and Franzi Roesner.

I am always looking for students interested in computer security. If you are already a student at UW Madison feel free to email me. If you are a potential student, please apply to our MS/PhD program. Check out the MadS&P Research Group website for more information about security and privacy research at UW Madison.

Selected publications

Students

  • PhD
  • Yunang Chen
  • Athena Sayles
  • Masters
  • Ashish Hooda
  • Undergraduate
  • Ruizhe Wang
  • Tyler Gu

Teaching

Awards

  • IEEE SecDev Best Research Paper Award
    2018
  • Nominee, UW Postdoc Mentoring Award
    2018
  • IEEE S&P Distinguished Practical Paper Award
    2016
  • U.S. Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist
    2016
  • UMich PhD Fellowship
    2012

Patents

  • System and Method for Extracting and Sharing Application-Related User Data
    Oriana Riva, Suman Nath, Doug Burger, Earlence Fernandes
    U.S. Patent 14/734,991

  • De-siloing Applications for Personalization and Task Completion Services
    Oriana Riva, Suman Nath, Doug Burger, Earlence Fernandes
    U.S. Patent 14/618,854

Books